Sentences with phrase «of students assigned to a teacher»

My research design effectively compared the performance of students assigned to teachers of the same race with the performance of students who were assigned to teachers of a different race but who were in the same grade and who entered the experiment in the same school and year.

One of the key factors affecting confidence intervals is the sample size — the larger the number of students assigned to each teacher, the smaller the confidence interval.

They therefore claim that the total number of students assigned to a teacher does not matter.

Not exact matches

Teachers struggle to meet standards and prepare students for tests without assigning unreasonable amounts of homework.

The state should ensure that all students — and especially the groups of students that have been disproportionately assigned to the least effective teachers — have access to strong and diverse educators.

For the experiment, students in an MSU introductory - level educational psychology course, which is required of all teacher education students, were randomly assigned to receive either the peer rationale, the instructor rationale or no rationale for why the course was important and beneficial to their potential careers as teachers.

Science Buddies recently introduced quizzes that teachers can assign to assess student comprehension of certain parts of the Project Guide, including the Scientific Method.

Plus, with new Google Classroom Integration, teachers can assign worksheets and assessment quizzes to help students who are working on independent science projects and following the steps of the Scientific Method or Engineering Design Process.

Based on an incredible true - life story — Michelle Pfeiffer stars as former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, a first - time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough but smart inner city students...

Though Tris and Four are constantly moving from one location to the next, they don't really accomplish anything of value, like students who are assigned busy work by a substitute teacher.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Because students in elementary grades are assigned to one teacher for most of the school day, advisory systems would be duplicative and are therefore not used by elementary schools.

Across all four districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of schooling behind their classmates.

And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact on student achievement when high value - added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.

The teacher can assign each student to play the part of a historical character during the unit of study, with the charge of becoming an expert.

In an advisory system, a teacher or pair of teachers is assigned to a group of students for an entire school year.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says former HGSE associate professor Hunter Gehlbach (now at University of California Santa Barbara).

The «cultural understanding» theory also supports the idea that students of color assigned to diverse teachers might be more likely to feel cared for and happy in class as a result of feeling understood by a culturally sensitive teacher.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and sTeacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and steacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

Initially, the 1:1 course would focus on helping every student and teacher learn to use an iPad, alleviating some of the support tickets assigned to the IT department which, at the time, consisted of three individuals.

«In history,» high school Webmaster Fred Holmes said, «a teacher might assign students to research different areas of a particular subject.

That suggests that any estimates of the effect of teacher gender on girls» math achievement may well be biased by the fact that women are more likely to be assigned to lower - performing math students.

Related to the first theory of «high expectations,» we find students assigned to a teacher who shares their race and gender are more likely to say their teacher pushes them to work hard, requires them to explain their answers, not to give up when the work gets hard, and accepts nothing less than their full effort.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach.

Pop Fiction No Match For Classic Literature Educator Kathleen Modenbach reflects on the growing trend of assigning pop fiction in place of the classics; many teachers do it to keep students happy.

the average math scores of students assigned to three highly effective teachers in a row rose from the 55th percentile in third grade to the 76th percentile by the end of fifth grade.

To the contrary, these laws have the effect of retaining and protecting some grossly ineffective teachers — thus, denying equal protection to the unfortunate students who are assigned to theTo the contrary, these laws have the effect of retaining and protecting some grossly ineffective teachers — thus, denying equal protection to the unfortunate students who are assigned to theto the unfortunate students who are assigned to theto them.

Stay tuned: Tomorrow, in the second part of this special Q&A, Smithsonian Director of Exhibitions Kara Blond will be talking about the skills needed to stage and manage an exhibition, and how teachers can involve all students by assigning them these different roles.

This effect is similar in size to those found in evaluations of primary - school inputs» impacts on postsecondary outcomes, such as being assigned to a teacher who is particularly effective in raising student test scores.

Not many teachers brought their students during the assigned time for their class; there was always something «more important» to do — testing or field trips or any number of other reasons.

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

Effective teachers assign work to students that is «appropriate to their current levels of competence.»

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

Teachers may wish to assign groups of students to create a model of (1) the solar system as it now exists, (2) the red giant sun, and / or (3) the white dwarf sun.

Using CAI improves student learning in the classrooms of otherwise low - performing teachers, but reduces learning for students assigned to otherwise high - performing teachers.

One of the consequences of it not being addressed is that teachers who understand how the system works and value high evaluation scores will do their best to be assigned to schools with high ability students, and within schools will do their best to get assigned the best students.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

The bias in classroom observation systems that derives from some teachers being assigned much more able students than other teachers is very important to the overall performance of the teacher evaluation system.

Instead, all the 6th grade math teachers and students operate as a single team, and students are assigned to teachers and modes of instruction based on daily assessments and their particular learning styles.

More specifically, if the average quality of teachers in a school is already high, being assigned to one of the better teachers will have only a limited effect on student achievement.

Not surprisingly, teachers who are successful with students in one year tend to be successful in other years; hence, measures of a teacher's performance in the past tend to be a good predictor of how well future students assigned to that teacher will achieve.

As Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff reported recently (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012), being assigned to a teacher with a track record of student achievement gains is associated with higher earnings and rates of college going.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

Teachers promise to assign a manageable amount of homework, but they don't gather data on how long it takes their students to complete their homework.

This is great for teachers who have access to iPads in a one - to - one environment, who want to create stations with just a few iPads, or who can assign a group of four or five students to a single iPad.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Use TAs to add value to what teachers do, not replace them — avoid assigning TAs to specific students for long periods of time and ensure students who need the most support spend no less time with the teacher than other members of the class.

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

Can we be confident that the various elements of practice measured by TES are the reasons that students assigned to highly rated teachers make larger achievement gains?