Sentences with phrase «number of students taking»

According to Jim Bock, dean of admissions at Swarthmore College, the number of students taking gap years doubled this year.

The number of students taking AP exams for college credit has doubled over the last decade.

The magazine evaluated nearly 20,000 public high schools throughout the country and ranked them on several factors, including state test scores, the number of students taking Advanced Placement and college - level courses and overall college readiness.

The number of students taking French and German this year are both just more than half the number in 1999.

Michael Turner, director of the JCQ, said: «There are many underlying factors affecting this year's GCSEs, including a sizeable increase in entry by 15 - year - olds, new science specifications designed with greater challenge, early and multiple entry in mathematics and an increase in the number of students taking IGCSEs [international GCSEs].

At the high school level, the model also factors in graduation rates and the number of students taking college or career preparation courses for credit.

But the number of students taking the test over that period declined from 88 to 31.

Every year, we've added courses and greatly expanded the number of students taking AP classes.

They will know the number of students taking college entrance exams and getting «college - ready» scores.

They will know the level of rigor based on the number of students taking AP courses and passing AP exams.

According to a RAND study released in January 2017, the state has seen record growth in the number of students taking Advanced Placement courses, as well as in its high school graduation rate and its rate of college attendance.

Of course, without knowing the total number of students taking the test in each class we can't even be sure the information is statistically significant.

«I think our track record is pretty good,» Evers said, citing decreased suspensions and expulsions, increased number of students taking college - level courses while still in high school and modest increases in reading proficiency.

Before 2014, the number of students taking their exams in Year 10 rather than Year 11, particularly in English...

Full - time online schools have gained 50,000 more students in the past year alone, bringing the total number of students taking part in such virtual learning environments up to 250,000,» according to this article, which looks at a report from the National School Boards Association.

Serious about offering other rigorous class opportunities to all of its students, Revere also has seen steady increases in the number of students taking Advanced Placement classes.

The number of students taking Advance Placement tests has grown 189 percent in five years.

Coleman argues that if the number of students taking the required standardized tests drops below 95 percent, the government can cut funding to schools, and that will be most damaging to students of color.

The number of students taking an AP exam has risen 189 percent since 2012, a sign of increased awareness of the program.

The school is producing more National Merit honorees than ever before and, in the past five years, has doubled the number of students taking and passing advanced placement exams, even as the percentages of low - income students, minority students, and English language learners have increased.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

As states implemented increased course requirements for high school graduation, especially in math and science, the number of students taking classes in these subjects went up by 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively, between 1987 — 88 and 2007 — 08.

The number of students taking GCSE resits in English and maths has soared by nearly a quarter as youngsters rush to seize the penultimate chance to retake exams...

Successes in Houston during Grier's tenuire include significantly expanding the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement exams, raising the high school graduation rate and overseeing passage of a $ 1.9 billion bond issue,

The state also saw a marginal increase — from 380 in 2013 to 434 in 2014 — in the number of students taking advantage of Fast Forward, a dual credit program for students enrolled at CTE centers.

Under McQueen's leadership, Tennessee recently announced the state's highest graduation rate in its history at 89.1 %, best overall ACT at 20.1 — a number that represents all public school students in the state, across the board improvements in the 2nd year of the new state assessment, and a record high number of students taking and attaining credit for early college coursework.

Exam officials have stressed that tougher requirements on accuracy in the new exam, and a much higher number of students taking the papers could explain lower grades.

Following the outcry of the grades awarded, exam officials have stressed that tougher requirements on accuracy in the new exam, and a much higher number of students taking the papers, could explain lower grades.

In a 10 - year period, Stevenson increased the number of students taking highly challenging AP exams more than eightfold while increasing the percentage of students passing.

SAT scores have not risen as they have in other states, even when taking account increases in the number of students taking the college admissions exam.

«If adopted these reforms could help expand the availability of online education alternatives and increase the number of students taking advantage of them, potentially improving student achievement and reducing costs at a time when the state budget is chronically in the red,» concluded Mr. Izumi.

The number of students taking ICT at GCSE level increased in 2012, despite a decline in top grades for the subject and an overall decline in GCSE results for the first time in 24 years.

The start of this school year marks the second year of the course, which has doubled the number of students taking it.

And despite the vast expansion of the number of students taking AP courses and exams, the average number of tests taken by students during their high - school careers has barely changed: 1.7 AP tests per examinee in 1956 and 1.8 per examinee in 2005.

Setting high expectations for students by establishing new programs to support efforts to increase the number of students taking AP, IB, and college - level courses by 50 percent.

However, teachers say poverty is seldom a major factor in holding down the number of students taking AP courses or AP exams.

The prediction was built off of data from third - party sources that had been collected over the previous eight years on the number of students taking online courses.

American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Schneider, formerly the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, has concluded that decades of efforts to boost the number of students taking rigorous math classes has caused a substantial dilution of those courses.

The number of students taking online courses grew to 5.8 million nationally, continuing a growth trend that has been consistent for 13 years.

Course participation rates are calculated by dividing number of students taking an AP course (from the 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 OCR CRDC) by grade 9 - 12 enrollment (from the 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 CCD School Universe Survey).

The district has also more than tripled the number of its students taking and receiving college credit for Advanced Placement courses.

Where data was only available at the school level, district rates were calculated using a weighted average, using the number of students taking the test in each school as the weights.

Despite a 15 per cent drop in the number of students taking short courses in RE since 2012, GCSE results this week showed a slight rise.

«The increase in the number of students taking Spanish and some other EBacc subjects at AS will be welcomed by many and it will be interesting to see if these rises follow through to next year's A levels.»

The union believes that enforcing the EBacc could result in the number of students taking creative courses such as music and drama to drop.

Perhaps your reports will show you that you haven't raised the prices on your courses for a few years now but the number of students taking part in the course has continued to increase.

I found that APIP does appear to boost both AP course enrollment, albeit slowly, and the number of students taking AP exams.

In the first year of APIP, the number of students taking AP and IB examinations increases by 2 percentage points, followed by a 4 - percentage - point increase in years two and beyond, with a similar boost for boys and girls.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

Boasberg has led DPS since 2009, helping the district triple its number of students taking Advanced Placement courses and improve graduation rates by 25 percentage points to 67 percent.