Sentences with phrase «of weaker students»

In some schools and districts, test score increases may reflect less an improvement in teaching and learning than a loss of weaker students from the test - taking pool.

Even if we hadn't introduced a greater number of weaker students into the mix, the scores of our high school students would still be stagnant.

However, unlike the Finnish inclusion model, colleagues refer students with learning problems to our program as a way of not having to take responsibility for the success of weaker students.

I used the pdf of the book which is available online for some of my weaker students and also watched the television series.

A 10 percent improvement in the performance of gifted students counts for naught if a tiny fall in the performance of the weakest students puts the school out of compliance with federal standards.

To give but one of several examples, the authors offer a nuanced discussion of ability grouping in schools that highlights the potential tensions between the value of improving the performance of the weakest students and the consequences of increasing the gap between them and the most gifted, since the latter are likely to reap the greater gains from ability grouping.

In their work, SEAs now are increasingly occupied with creating partnerships to deliver technical assistance to districts, especially districts with profiles of weak student achievement.

Not exact matches

Much of the generation delayed marriage, childbearing and home ownership after graduating with heaping student - loan debt and entering a weak job market.

Not on historical data collection (for which you have to credit his students) but on the weak explanation of why r > g since the late 1970's - early 1990's, leading to rising inequalities within countries (for which you have to credit him).

Last week I had drinks with one of my former Peking University students and we discussed some of the ways the global economy might react to a world adjusting from a global crisis with weak demand and excess liquidity.

Because it would be weak to call out student - athletes and provide no suggested solutions, I offer the following ideas to improve the image of sports and the trust and faith that spectators and fans have in them.

Student - athletes will benefit the most from reduced exposure to potentially injurious blows and from what one calls the «conundrum of having to self - report an injury that they may not recognize as being potentially injurious or dangerous in the moment of competition,» or, as recent studies suggest, that athletes know are potentially dangerous but choose not to report because they fear being punished by the coach for doing so, such as by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring in front of teammates that reporting symptoms made them «weak» or less «manly»; and

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

She said even if they are not connected to the rankings of teachers and students, they are useful in finding out the weak points in instruction.

They found that non-acceptors of evolution tended to be in the foundation science classes where students» understanding of science generally was weak, their understanding of evolution being just one part of that.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

You'll need a total of 10 reference letters, including two from colleagues who like you but resent your tenure bid, one from the department head who has a disincentive to let you step on his or her turf, one from your graduate adviser whom you haven't seen in 10 years, one from a «superstar» in your field that will be ghostwritten by a secretary, two from foreign collaborators from countries where praise is considered weak, and three from students you've slept with.

Unfortunately, poor mentoring and weak student - mentor relationships are some of the reasons over 500 Harvard - ites beat a path to Linda Wilcox's door every year.

Qualitative focus group follow - up studies showed that acceptance is heavily conditioned by authority figures (teachers, TV personalities, religious figures) and the correlation between the students» understanding of evolution and their acceptance of it is weak.

The tendency to work with a director of the student's own nationality was strongest in the lowest - ranked schools and weakest in the highest - ranked ones.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

With Functional Warrior I, students gain better insight into their body from a Mountain Pose perspective or neutral, and begin to see the blueprint of their bodies; what is tight, short, slack, strong or weak.

If a university student whose diet consisted of pizza and ready meals and whose antioxidant intake consisted solely of potatoes (which are weak for antioxidants) swirled ginger into his milk daily, he could see huge improvements in his skin, just from a simple trick like that.

Bridget Kudrle: «How is this study identifying «strong» and «weak» teachers, on the basis of which they draw their conclusions about future student outcomes?

The weaker students use the Scaffolding presentation as it has some of the basic shapes and outlines to help them on their way.

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

Maria Bustillos objects to «firing «weaker» teachers for the sake of a barely perceptible increase in students» «lifetime income.

Franklin argues that correcting students is the weakest way of teaching rules.

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

This resource allows a student to choose a weak topic area of theirs (personalised learning) from a menu of 48 topics and instantly opens a printable PDF of past SATs questions specific to that topic.

Yet building the capacity of adults charged with preparing students for the future is the weakest part of our nation's reform strategy.

We ran a regression analysis to estimate the relationship between states» absolute and relative poverty levels and student achievement, and the result was clear: absolute poverty is a powerful predictor of achievement, while the relationship between relative poverty and test scores in the U.S. is weak and not statistically significant (see Figure 5).

But in too many parts of the country, weak authorizing systems have encouraged a proliferation of charter schools — particularly virtual and for - profit ones — that don't serve students well and taint the broader reputation of charters.

These incidents can threaten our sense of control and generate fear of looking weak to other students.

«Using student test scores to sanction teachers and schools makes it more likely they will adjust their behaviour to protect themselves, which may mean leaving the weakest learners behind,» explains Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report.

Relative poverty is also a weak predictor of student achievement internationally.

In both cases, he faced groups of unmotivated students who had been jaded by previous, weak instruction.

Seating students in heterogeneous groups maximizes the learning environment: weaker students see how stronger students learn and approach problems, while stronger students gain a deeper understanding of the subject by teaching it to others, creating a «technical success.»

Looking at the undergraduate colleges attended by both types of computer - science students at Georgia Tech suggests that online students are, on average, somewhat weaker academically than their in - person counterparts.

But the same effort to predict similarity between students will be weak if it is based only on knowledge of whether the students grew up in the same family or attended the same schools.

Second, these increases occur alongside evidence of growing racial gaps in college graduates» labor market outcomes, suggesting graduate school may for some students be a response to the weak post-recession labor market.

The first in the series of SREB reports, «Education's Weak Link: Student Performance in the Middle Grades,» describes the middle grades as the «weak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern staWeak Link: Student Performance in the Middle Grades,» describes the middle grades as the «weak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern staweak link» in education, nationally as well as in southern states.

The researchers found that the benefits of double - dosing were largest for students whose reading skills were weaker than their math skills.

Key to much of the abuse has been weak regulation and the difficulty of students to ascertain quality.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

These resources make use of other resources available but I think they are organized for easier note - taking and weaker students» organization of learning.

A more fine - grained analysis might reveal more about the types of private schools that produce weaker or stronger outcomes for their students.

This analysis indicates that participation in the FTC program has shifted toward schools with weaker track records of improving student outcomes, according to one broad categorization (share of students on scholarships) but not another (religiosity and denomination of school).