Sentences with phrase «measured school inputs»

A widely - cited result in the education production function literature is that the level of measured school inputs (e.g., student — teacher ratio or starting teacher salary) is not associated with

Specifically, spending increases associated with court - mandated reform are much more strongly related to improvement in measured school inputs (e.g., student - to - teacher ratios, length of the school year) than ordinary spending increases.

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«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

According to the comptroller's office, the system used to measure fiscal stress recently was revised to include «direct input» from local school officials.

States should not include input measures when determining whether a school should be subject to intervention.

For too long we measured only inputs to schooling, such as funding levels and student / teacher ratios.

Perhaps there are some «wrong» answers (such as relying exclusively on proficiency rates in reading and math to judge school quality, or measuring school spending and other inputs and calling it accountability) but mostly there are a whole bunch of right and partially - right answers, depending on policymakers» goals and states» idiosyncrasies.

Under competitive pressures from private schools, the productivity of the school system measured as the ratio between output and input increases by even more than is suggested by looking at educational outcomes alone.

School productivity, measured as educational outcomes divided by labor or financial inputs, has declined dramatically.

One path they're considering leads to traditional input - and - process measures while another points toward «evidence - based rating instruments,» i.e. sophisticated gauges of student - teacher interactions and school readiness.

In addition to student proficiency and growth as measured by state tests, the inputs into CORE's School Quality Improvement Index (SQII) include such indicators as suspension and expulsion rates, chronic absenteeism, and school culture and climate surveys administered to students, teachers, and paSchool Quality Improvement Index (SQII) include such indicators as suspension and expulsion rates, chronic absenteeism, and school culture and climate surveys administered to students, teachers, and paschool culture and climate surveys administered to students, teachers, and parents.

With this new task force, the State Board will conduct community roundtables and focus groups to gather input on the remaining ESSA accountability plan measures, pilot studies, and school report cards from essential District education stakeholders.

We use these measures each year to grade our Imagine Schools based on several inputs provided by each school.

It will review the process that schools went through to apply for Measure G1 funds and seek further community input to improve the process.

Drawing on a close reading of public polling research and empirical research on factors related to school quality, and engaging in conversations with teachers, students, families, principals, and district administrators, we have identified five categories — the first three being essential inputs and the last two being key outcomes — and over 30 unique measures to capture the nuances of schools:

Educational progress was to be measured by what students produced (outputs) rather than by what resources were invested in schools (inputs).

An attorney representing the California Charter Schools Association, Winston Stromberg, suggested that one of the bond measures to improve sites for students with disabilities was rushed through without stakeholder input.

Their emphasis was on providing «productive learning conditions for all students in each school» using measures of educational inputs and outcomes based on eight requirements for effective accountability:

Much of the school finance literature has been singular in its functionalist approach of using production functions to measure the relationship of inputs to outcomes without taking into account how resources are activated, and what happens in the process of schooling.

Schools are measured as successes and failures using distant measurements that are absent any locally understood input, and then they are threatened until those measures rise — or the school is closed and frequently turned over to a private operator with absolutely no accountability to local democratic institutions.

Prior to 1980, school quality was measured mainly by inputs — indicators such as the number of books in the school library, the percentage of teachers with master's degrees, and dollars spent per pupil.

Normally associated with special education, IEPs are designed with input from a child's parents, teachers and school psychologist to determine what the student's needs are, how the school will meet them, and how progress will be measured.

Its language allows for local school districts to provide input and have some measure of control over the state process.

Thus, our finding of the absence of a strong relationship between the indirect measure of teacher capacity that we used and student achievement may simply reflect the low quality of typical professional development inputs available to teachers in schools.

To use appropriate peer and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professional input as part of the raft of measures used to inform high school students about health professional careers; and