Crellin — which ranked as the state's No. 1 elementary school
on achievement tests in 2010, according to The Baltimore Sun — was nearly shut down last year because of the district's budget crisis.
Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later
on achievement tests in science, math, and English.
Not exact matches
To demonstrate that Sarah's
achievements were not based
on perception of look - alikes but
on her grasp of abstract relations, Premack
tested Sarah's ability to reason analogically, involving relations of change
in size, color, shape and marking, as well as actions such as cutting, opening and marking.
In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succee
In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus
on their student's
achievement as mainly measured by grades and
test scores — the need to score better than others
in order to succee
in order to succeed.
With our culture and our nation's emphasis
on high academic
achievement, the perception that
in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect
test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.
Research shows that kids who get fed are sick less, pay more attention
in class, and even do better
on standardized
achievement tests.
An
achievement test,
on the other hand, will compare your child's performance to other children
in the same grade.
If you only praise your child for getting 100
on a
test, or for scoring the most goals
in the game, your child may think your love is conditional
on high
achievement.
NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data)
on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves
in consulting, academic
achievement tests, and expert witness (
in courts and legislatures).
Breastfed children had higher mean scores
on tests of cognitive ability; performed better
on standardized
tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better
in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of
achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.
However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases
in scores
on standardized
tests of ability and
achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.
The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding
on cognitive ability and
achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic
achievement that included performance
on standardized
tests, teacher ratings of academic
achievement, and levels of success
in examinations
on leaving school.
Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores
on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized
tests of
achievement, better grades
in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.
And
in 1992, the U.S. Department of Education found that attending to a child's learning style was one of the few strategies that improved
achievement of special education students
on national
tests.
In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance
on standardized
tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school
achievement.
High
Achievement New York, a group that has been supportive of the Common Core standards, praised
on Tuesday the state's transparency
in releasing some English Language Arts and math
test questions this year.
Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed
in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based
on multiple measures, including both student progress
on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.
Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers
in fields not covered by state
tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated
on the basis of student
achievement in areas that are
tested, such as English and math.
«Through international diplomacy built
on established scientific
achievement in nuclear
testing verification,» Kemerait wrote, «Dr. Zerbo has fought to make this world safer for all the earth's inhabitants.»
Although the difference was slight, high - income children outperformed their less wealthy peers
on both IQ
tests and an exam designed to replicate
achievement in various academic subjects.
But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for
testing their impact
on student
achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.
A new report from the Royal Society
on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice
in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes
tests used to measure student
achievement.
Lucero feels that there is not enough emphasis
on science
in classes at LES, and students typically have a poor showing
in achievement tests on science and math compared to the national average.
Yet physically active children tend to outperform their inactive peers
in the classroom and
on tests of
achievement.
Furthermore, immigrant children who were learning English and participated
in the intervention had
achievement scores
on those state
tests that were nearly as high as the
achievement scores of classmates who were proficient
in English.
Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers
in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic
Achievement» indicate that while physical activity
in schools has diminished
in part because of a growing emphasis
on student performance and academic
testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.
In a Western culture so focused
on achievement,
on striving for more,
on testing human limits, it can be easy to transfer a «push yourself»...
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The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth
in math and English
achievement, as measured by state
tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy
on what really matters: classroom learning.
Results of the study indicate that LTTA students perform better
on math computation and estimation (as measured by the Canadian
Achievement Test, CAT · 3) compared to students
in similar non-LTTA schools.
Charter school students
in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based
on the performance of comparable students
in traditional public schools,
on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide
achievement tests.
On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a
test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers
in schools whose poorest students make significant gains
in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).
As a result, inequalities
in access to a full, rich curriculum widened, while
achievement dropped
on measures assessing higher - order thinking skills, like the international PISA
tests.
While the word «accountability» never appears
in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus
on student
achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and
tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]
The study by the Educational Policy Institute, released Aug. 11, examined the scores
on the Stanford
Achievement Test 9 or 10 given to 1,800 5th graders at 24 KIPP schools
in the fall of 2003, and again
in either...
Students
in the experimental group scored significantly higher
on the science
achievement test compared to students
in the control group.
At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind
in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading
on the Illinois Standards
Achievement Test.
Tenth - grade earth science students who engaged
in PBL earned higher scores
on an
achievement test as compared to students who received traditional instruction (Chang, 2001).
For instance, data may show that the students who pass through one teacher's class consistently score lower
on state
achievement tests than the students
in another teacher's class.
Perhaps it's because white students score higher
on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices
in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.
Coleman found that variation
in school resources (as measured by per - pupil spending and student - to - teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation
in student
achievement on standardized
tests.
In a quasi-experimental study in nine Title I schools, principals and teacher leaders used explicit protocols for leading grade - level learning teams, resulting in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009
In a quasi-experimental study
in nine Title I schools, principals and teacher leaders used explicit protocols for leading grade - level learning teams, resulting in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009
in nine Title I schools, principals and teacher leaders used explicit protocols for leading grade - level learning teams, resulting
in students outperforming their peers in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009
in students outperforming their peers
in six matched schools on standardized achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009
in six matched schools
on standardized
achievement tests (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, and Goldenberg, 2009).
We also drew
on an additional year of data, from the 2012 13 school year,
in assessing IMPACT's effects
on student
achievement in tested grades and subjects.
What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close
achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted
in student performance
on state
tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.
There is precious little research demonstrating the value of school counselors
on student
achievement ~ with good reason it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of counselors
on standardized
test scores ~ which have come to define
achievement in recent years.
Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains
in achievement on state reading and math
tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups
Opened by two teachers
in 1994 and named Time magazine's «Elementary School of the Year»
in 2001, the school reports that its scores
on the Stanford
Achievement test have jumped 97 percent since 1997.
Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency
on their state
tests to results
on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of
achievement required to be declared proficient
in many states has been dropping over the last decade.
Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies
in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences
in the number of days students had spent
in school when they were
tested had noticeable effects
on their
achievement.
The importance of the consortia is found
in their power to move the
testing industry and to get comparable data
on student
achievement across states lines.