Sentences with phrase «of whether a student»

(The 5 - 4 decision affirmed Hastings's policy that all student groups open all leadership positions to all students, regardless of whether the students agree with the group's statement of faith.)

Remarkably, Jackson found that this simple noncognitive proxy was a better predictor than a student's test scores of whether the student would attend college, a better predictor of adult wages, and a better predictor of future arrests.

«The decision of whether a student should take the state assessments is ultimately for that student's parent or parents to make,» Beattie said.

So regardless of whether a student decides to pursue a challenging career in construction they will still be learning something really valuable in a thoroughly engaging way.»

«Among all of the variables we analyzed, whether a student attends a public pre-K program is the strongest predictor of whether the student takes the gifted and talented test.

It is not a trivial task, but review committees do look at the question of whether students in a program are publishing.

Like the behaviorists, Dewey saw the classroom environment (created by the teacher) as ultimately determinative of whether students learn.

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.

Traditionally, the state funds a student at a constant level, regardless of whether the student performs well or even completes the course.

It also urges that the Carnegie unit, the long - standing gauge of whether students graduate and one of the factors that shape the way the school day is planned, be redesigned or abolished.

So that's the referee role; it's an objective question of whether students do well... What you'd measure and hold the institution accountable to is that more diverse kids did well in that objective setting.

For example, the literature on school finance and control is currently absorbed with the question of whether students are affected by the achievement of their schoolmates.

These are just some of the questions that surround the issue of whether student test scores should be used to evaluate teacher performance.

The third is a measure of whether students feel confident that they could actually use their civic skills outside of the classroom.

They have for decades back - biased what is taught in schools, in a very self - serving manner — narrowly as a test of whether a student will succeed at university.

But in mathematics, PARCC set a higher standard for college - ready performance than MCAS» «proficient» standard — and meeting the PARCC standard provided a better indication of whether a student was prepared to earn a «C» grade in a college math course.

School officials, not parents, make the determination of whether a student has a particular disability and what accommodations are necessary.

Our second research design uses each of these factors — a teacher's optimism, her assessment of a given student's attentiveness, and the student's enjoyment of her class — to predict her expectations of whether the student will complete college.

Scores on AP tests are a stronger predictor of whether students are likely to complete college than SAT and ACT scores are, but AP scores are not as strong a predictor as high school grades.

Scores on the SAT and ACT tests are not good predictors of whether students are likely to graduate from college.

Regardless of whether students prefer to initially take notes in physical or digital media, they need an opportunity to organize their work and connect ideas across the curriculum.

Regardless of whether the student did something to exacerbate the situation, it is worthwhile making a plan to prevent and manage further incidents.

Most college courses are one - size - fits - all — a lecturer delivers the same information to everyone in the room, regardless of whether some students already know the material or others are utterly lost.

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

With the Hitt and Trivitt measure, we will have an early warning indicator of whether students are acquiring non-cognitive skills and are more likely to have higher attainment later.

It offers a much clearer understanding of whether a student is ready for college, and could also reduce the need for costly remedial programs.

Similar levels of satisfaction with special education services are reported, regardless of whether the student was in MPCP or MPS (see Figure 2).

Try to keep essay topics original, regardless of whether students get ready topics or formulate them by themselves.

The survey provides data on wages and occupations going 10 years past high school as well as clear indicators of whether students participated in ESL or bilingual education programs.

As a substitute for IEP, we use an indicator of whether the student received an IEP because of a severe or moderate disability.

The case addresses the question of whether the students» and teachers» rights to the free expression of ideas are compromised by the school board's...

Which has properly led the organization to look at much more than just short - term test scores as indicators of whether their students are on track.

Equity in funding: Funding - per - student should be equitable, regardless of whether a student is in a public district school or a public charter school.

But it was not a good predictor of whether a student was ready for eighth grade algebra.

«Otto Banks... said this vouchers proposal is more politically feasible than a previous measure which would have eventually allowed vouchers for any student of a low - to middle - income family, regardless of whether the student were within the attendance boundary of a failing school.»

He concluded that «school math achievement is a good predictor of whether students in P — 12 education stay on track toward two - year or four - year college education.»

While it is nice to have data on teacher absenteeism (and the information illuminates the extent of the problem), the lack of information on chronic absenteeism — a key indicator of whether a student is on the path to dropping out — means that we don't know how poorly schools are doing in providing high - quality instruction and curricula to the students in their care.

Fixed costs are incurred regardless of whether students attend traditional or charter schools.

The question of whether students have a sustainable connection to learning, schools and education does not merely affect the economy; it drives democracy and sustains healthy social interdependence for everyone.

Such data can provide indicators of whether student improvement goals have been...

New York has slowly begun to listen to parents by not putting test scores on students» permanent records and not using tests as major determinants of whether students go to the next grade.

Regardless of whether the student sustains the concussion in the classroom, on the playing field, or elsewhere, schools need to be well prepared to take affirmative actions to facilitate the student's return to school for the sake of educational progress as well as medical safety.

In John Hattie's all - encompassing summary of education meta - syntheses, Visible Learning, he highlights the importance of whether students think their teacher is competent.

My summer survey of whether students were required to take remediation resulted in only a handful of students.

Small differences in the estimated effects of teachers on their students» achievement can appear to be much larger, because most teachers are about equally successful with the assortment of students they teach in a given year, regardless of whether those students begin the year as low - achievers or high - achievers.

Where a student attends school — not the nature of the offense — is the greater predictor of whether the student will be ticketed or arrested at school.

It should also be noted that tuition is the same regardless of whether the student is in - state or out - of - state.

The application of value - added assessment to the question of whether students are gaining at a rate necessary to attain minimum standards is called projection modeling.

It is not intended as the sole measure of whether a student is making adequate educational progress.

School districts and unions ultimately agreed to evaluation systems that declared virtually every educator satisfactory and set aside more contentious questions of whether students were learning.