Sentences with phrase «of tracking student»

We are in the early days of tracking student performances at the granularity suggested.

«They each have methods of tracking student activity,» said Levinson of the state's two virtual school operators.

The strategy of tracking student progress on specific learning goals is well supported.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

Measuring these school - wide standards — such as effective communication, problem solving, or habits of work — must include establishing clear criteria (rubrics), designing authentic assessments (performance tasks), and a calibrated system of tracking student performance.

Multiple - choice achievement tests have their uses, but so do diagnostic tests, performance tasks, informal assessments, and other means of tracking student progress.

Admittedly, such scrutiny was not possible when NCLB was originally enacted into law, simply because at the time the legislation was passed there was no way in most states of tracking student progress over time.

Unfortunately, these questions will remain unanswerable until we have better ways of tracking student debt by race over a longer period of time.

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

That such a high proportion of Worcester's families are moving in and out of the district exacerbates the problems of tracking students and delivering a coherent education program.

With advances in data - based instruction and differentiation, should we be reconsidering the practice of tracking students by academic ability?

Having delivered the scheme in a number of primary schools across the UK, Marion approached Alleyn's with the idea of running a mentoring programme alongside it as another means of tracking students» progress in reading.

To truly prepare students, school structures, culture and instruction must shift to prepare students for postsecondary studies aligned to their career interests, and this can be done without risk of recreating a system of tracking students into prescribed pathways.

«We have made a special effort to eliminate middle school courses that have the effect of tracking students at an early stage of either being AP or non-AP students.

The number of transient children not attending school when away from the school of origin and the inadequacies of tracking students throughout the region.

Not exact matches

Authorities tracked down the seller, a university student in Bologna, who had in turn purchased the rare book from one of Turin's major book dealers.

According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

The college - education track rarely challenges students to seek real - world experience (and often creates a mountain of debt).

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

Researchers at the University of Arizona monitored a group of students and tracked their «loneliness levels» while posting Facebook status updates.

This took three years of focused budgeting and willpower, but I'm happy to say that I completely wiped out my student loans, credit card debt and all but the last $ 1,500 of my car loan — which is on track to be paid off in September.

It's long past time we kept track of everything that's coming in from students and faculty and staff, and everything that's going out.»

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

Ida - Gaye Warburton, who worked on Malvo's defense team while a law student at Washington & Lee University, said being able to track down both expert and character witnesses, who knew Malvo independently of Muhammad, was key to the defense.

But managers who think the point of electronic tracking is to police their employees are being as shortsighted as teachers who think the point of the Internet is to make it easier to catch students who plagiarize.

«We have a small sample set of students right now, so we're not sure where the greater interest is going to be,» he says, «but some students are very enthusiastic about the business track.»

«This allows Google to track, store on its servers, and data mine for non-advertising purposes, records of every Internet site students visit, every search term they use, the results they click on, videos they look for and watch on YouTube, and their saved passwords,» the EFF said in a statement.

By tracking a huge amount of data on students, Learnmetrics helps educators plan for better outcomes.

If you're planning on claiming the student loan interest deduction in 2017 and beyond, you don't have to worry about keeping track of interest all year long.

I created this blog in order to help me improve my finances (one example — due to this, I was able to pay off $ 38,000 in student loans in 7 months), keep track of my progress, and to help readers improve their finances along the way.

Increasingly, students were obsessed with the track record of this hick investor from Omaha, whose company Berkshire Hathaway, had beaten the S&P 500 for two decades in a row and counting.

If you can keep track of these bonus categories, and manage to fit at least 6.25 % of your total spending into them, the Discover it ® for Students outperforms the Journey ® Student Rewards from Capital One ® rewards-wise.

When it comes to student loans and taxes, there are a lot of credits and deductions to keep track of and claim.

If students manage to keep track, and have at least 6.25 % of their total annual spending fall into these categories, we calculate that they will come out ahead compared to the Journey ® Student Rewards from Capital One ®.

He is currently a Finance student at San Diego State University and is on track to graduate in the Spring of 2019.

Elon Musk built a test track of his own at SpaceX, allowing students to offer up improvements and play with the plans.

There is a prediction market at the University of Iowa called Iowa Electronic Markets that has an ongoing track record for accuracy and serves mainly as a proof of concept for students.

«The real problem when borrowers get out of school is that their income is probably the lowest it's going to be throughout their lifetime and also their debt is the highest it's going to be throughout their lifetime,» says Andy Josuweit, the CEO of Student Loan Hero, a website that helps borrowers keep track of loans and suggests repayment options.

Many students will take out new loans each semester to fully pay for their education, and the result is that you may have six, eight or more loans to keep track of and to pay for.

They've claimed that balances on multiple credit cards, student loans, car loans, and mortgages have made it impossible to reduce their balances and that keeping track of the payment dates is a nightmare.

I can't tell you how many people are not organized when it comes to their student loan debt and maybe your listeners are already ahead of the curve and I hope so, but too many people have no tracking mechanism.

According to the lawsuits, student loan servicers indicated that borrowers were on track to receive loan forgiveness when, in fact, some of their loans didn't qualify for the program.

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

We saw the names of some who had been students at the local high schools and community college; we saw the names of friends with whom we had grown up, members of our track teams and little league; some of us saw the names of family members.

Ministry in a congregation or parish is the primary goal of less than one - third of master's - level students and of only half of students in master of divinity and other ordination - track programs.

Right now her students are tracking the phases of the moon by observing it each night.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

On track to start educating students in fall 2018, the new school will occupy a historic property on more than 200 acres in Northfield, Massachusetts, 90 miles northwest of Boston.

Amanda, it's one of my favourite recipes, I just made a batch on Friday for the four University Track and Field students staying at my house for the weekend.