Sentences with phrase «of teacher effects»

However, such teacher attitudes have never been analyzed on a broad scale, and many analyses of teacher effects focus solely on teachers» human capital, overlooking their social - psychological traits.

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly assume effectiveness is a stable attribute within teachers.

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value - added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly

«[O] btaining sufficiently precise estimates of teacher effects to support ranking [and such decisions] is likely to [forever] be a challenge.»

We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower - performing students using

«It would be difficult to see how the range of teacher effects on the 8th grade Reading test would be considered substantively meaningful if this result holds up in a larger and random sample.

In response, Rothstein points out that one can not assess whether value - added is the «among the strongest predictors» of teacher effects without comparing it with a broad array of alternative predictors.

* The value - added model that the MET project employs, while common in the literature, is also not designed to address how the distribution of teacher effects varies between high - and low - performing classrooms (e.g., teachers of ELL classes are assumed to be of the same average effectiveness as teachers of gifted / talented classes).

If there were no fade - out of teacher effects, a policy of retaining only the top 75 percent of teachers at tenure time puts us on the path to closing the gap with the top - performing countries within ten years.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

Models for value - added modeling of teacher effects.

Models of student achievement in a given year as a function of prior achievement and other controls tend to give higher correlations than other models, see: Daniel F. McCaffrey, Tim R. Sass, J. R. Lockwood, and Kata Mihaly, «The intertemporal variability of teacher effect estimates,» Education Finance and Policy, 4, no. 4, (2009): 572 - 606.

Daniel F.McCaffrey, Tim R. Sass, J.R. Lockwood, & Kata Mihaly, «The intertemporal variability of teacher effect estimates,» Education Finance and Policy, 4, no. 4, (2009): 572 - 606.

Please see Appendix D -2-3 for an explanation of teacher effect rating system developed by SAS.

Not exact matches

For it is only in love that the unequal can be made equal, and it is only in equality or unity that an understanding can be effected, and without a perfect understanding the Teacher is not the God, unless the obstacle comes wholly from the side of the learner, in his refusing to realize that which had been made possible for him.

We could have quoted St Irenaeus — who is indeed a saint, martyr and great teacher of the Church — at much greater length to exactly the same effect, but the succinctness of Tertullain's style serves well to express the thought no matter that the man unfortunately left the communion of the Church at the end of his life.

And I have admit that I always give the «lawyer's argument» for the great book I'm teaching, while often merely alluding to criticisms both tentative and pointed.The Catholic approach is not appropriate for a teacher at a non-Catholic college, and my approach usually has the effect I can't completely explain of making my smart Christian students more Christian.

What is more that abiding reality was taken to include for ever all that Jesus did and was, all that was effected in and through Jesus — historic teacher, last of the great Jewish prophets, one who «went about doing good», the crucified and risen Lord, all of these united in the inclusive reality which is named when we use the phrase «Jesus Christ our Lord».

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

In Europe the academic teacher is expected to do both research and teaching, and there can be no doubt that this combination is very healthy and has good effects on the quality of both research and instruction.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

«We become, in effect, an educational arm of the charity, working with teachers, often at a school assembly, and then following up in the classroom.»

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

He wanted the Church's bishops to follow the lead of Vatican II and see themselves first and foremost as teachers and sanctifiers; but he not infrequently appointed bishops with a tendency to liberal authoritarianism to key positions in their respective countries, with grave effects on episcopal leadership throughout the world.

Even so, if a student is being taught by a well - formed teacher, or is receiving sound catechesis, the negative effects of such RE can be mitigated.

This is the whole point of form criticism — or tradition criticism, as it ought to be called: the units in the evangelic tradition were handed down orally, in separation, and in the form given them by the earliest preachers and teachers of the gospel, the «gospel» being, not the total story of the life of Jesus, but the proclamation of the message of salvation through him, a salvation fully to be effected in the future, though it could be realized in anticipation even now, before the final Parousia.

Christian teacher Tom Wade, who is head of RE at a Hertfordshire school, believes the game is having a positive effect on pupils: «I spoke to one student who said that they'd left their house early that morning so he and his sister could walk via a location that a specific Pokémon had been spotted at, and this is a student that we'd previously dealt with [who had] anxiety issues in leaving the house.

The initiative will have a long term effect on the delivery of school sport as it is anticipated that half of the 6,000 teachers involved in the scheme will also access free training offered in partnership through the Youth Sport Trust.

Implement a «student - for - a-day» program where teachers follow a student's schedule for an entire school day to get a sense of the cumulative effect of the daily schedule.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Sure, the resulting panic may pass, but you have lasting residual effects: - a disconnect from this teacher - estrangement from the learning process and education in general - physical avoidance from the teacher, subject, classroom, etc. - loss of learning.

The walkout staged by Chicago Public Schools teachers this week had a ripple effect on thousands of children throughout the city.

Caroline Smrstik Gentner: What can schools or teachers do to help children thrive and overcome the negative effects of growing up in poverty or adversity?

I generally get Barnes & Noble cards, but one teacher this year has mentioned that she's been spending a lot of money at Bath & Body Works because of the drying effects of all the hand sanitizer she has to use.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Washington also developed an online training program as part of its professional development requirements for early childhood teachers that includes an explanation of the brain's executive function and describes the effects of trauma on child development.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

The effects of spiritual practice on a teacher and his / her relationship with students, parents, colleagues, and self

the removal of the duty on teachers to undertake lunchtime supervision of pupils, with effect from 1 January 2012;

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, predicts that the effect will «magnify quite quickly».

No - one is talking to teachers, to parents, to children about the potency of cannabis and its possible effects.

«Excessive workload and attacks on teachers» working conditions are having a profoundly negative effect on women teachers» mental and physical health and wellbeing and undermining the quality of education for children and young people.

, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said the federal legislation has the effect of «restoring to states, communities and teachers the responsibility for improving student achievement.»

It would have delayed the effects of Common Core related tests on teacher's annual performance reviews.

The NEC also used the occasion to kick against the call for autonomy of local government councils, stating that the ghost of the effects of primary schools left in the hands of the local governments in the past had continued to haunt the teachers, leading to its near - collapse in terms of personnel, funding and infrastructural development.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

The Regents were set to vote to delay the effects of Common Core on high school seniors for five more years, until 2022, and to offer teachers some protections if they are fired during the next two years.

Cuomo spoke after he and the legislature agreed to delay the effects of the Common Core - related tests on students and teachers for another two years.

«I believe long term in Common Core, and I believe the move to Common Core is exactly right,» said Cuomo, after he and the legislature agreed to delay the effects of the Common Core - related tests on students and teachers for another two years.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.