Sentences with phrase «necessarily increase student learning»

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But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

Unrealistic and ever - increasing performance targets have forced us to label 63 percent of Title I schools and 47 percent of districts receiving Title I funds as needing improvement, and to apply sanctions that do not necessarily lead to improved learning for the students in those schools.

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

This finding is consistent with results from prior research: simply changing structures, or being open to involvement, does not necessarily lead to increased student learning.

Even when we employ a range of formative assessments and use the assessment results to guide our instructional decisions, we haven't necessarily answered the question of whether our teaching increased students» learning, and by how much.

She joined the conservative Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, a policy group that included Finn; Eric Hanushek, an economist famous for arguing that increasing education funding doesn't necessarily improve student learning; and John Chubb and Terry Moe, authors of the definitive early manifesto for markets and choice in public schools.

Although this purported increase in confidence does not necessarily translate into changes in practice, the students certainly have reflected on their prior learnings and new learnings, which may be a positive step forward for them as they complete their training.