Sentences with phrase «on higher achieving students»

This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

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The students who used the «study drug» were academically diverse: from high - achieving, AP and Honors students looking for a fast alternative to balance their schedules while maintaining a high GPA, to students struggling to keep a minimum GPA to play on a sports team.

The School Nutrition Foundation focuses on providing the resources that educate and empower SNA members to provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the nation to foster an environment where children achieve overall wellness and lifelong success.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

But reformed GCSEs will no longer set an artificial cap on how much pupils can achieve by forcing students to choose between higher and foundation tiers.

Buffalo had performance increases measured in students achieving proficiency or higher on both ELA and Math from the 2015 - 16 to 2016 - 17 school year.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

The academics believe spotting «procrastinators» who hand in work at the last minute early on and warning them of the dangers of the habit could help students achieve higher grades.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

Those most victimized by this regime were high - achieving poor and minority students — kids who were dependent on the school system to cultivate their potential and accelerate their achievement.

The most significant improvements were found in low - achieving students, with no significant impact on high achievers.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

«There are always caveats with this type of analysis, but the results suggest that students participating in the Silver CREST Awards achieve about half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result on average compared with a statistically - similar control group.

These students achieve high grades on year - level expectations; and parents, teachers and students themselves are generally satisfied with this result.

Students who took Silver CREST achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result compared to a statistically matched control group.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

Again we find no impact of accountability pressure on higher - achieving students.

Were teachers, we wanted to know, focusing their attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving students in an effort to meet target scores?

Put differently, our evidence indicates that effective schools help their students achieve at higher levels than expected based on their fluid cognitive skills.

Further, they caution that the analysis of G&T programs within regular schools focuses only on students who are on the margin of entering a gifted program and hence may not apply to higher achieving students.

Yet some may wonder about the potential cost of this focus on higher - achieving students, for whom improvements over the same time period have been modest.

Similarly, because growth measures may do a poor job of capturing the progress of high - achieving students, some states may want the weights assigned to achievement and growth to vary based on the level at which a school's students are achieving.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

While one finds some evidence that high - achieving students are more popular among students of other ethnicities, the increment is not enough to offset the decline in popularity within their own ethnic group — a predictable finding, given that black and white students have only, on average, one friend of another ethnicity, and Hispanics just one and a half.

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One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

Effective schools help students achieve at higher levels than one would expect, based on their cognitive skills, a recent study finds, rather than enhancing students» core abstract - reasoning capabilities.

Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher scores on standardized tests if they know the vocabulary of the standards.

After taking into account differences in socioeconomic status, we found that parents of higher - achieving students are more likely to make a request, which perhaps reflects greater sophistication or interest on the part of these families.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

According to the College Board, in order to have a 65 percent chance of getting a B - average in college, students should achieve about 1030 on the math and verbal SATs and earn a B average in high school (taking courses of at least «average» rigor).

For instance, the argument against «tracking» is based on the notion that both low - and high - achieving students benefit from being exposed to one another in the classroom.

Students in the highest - performing U.S. states rank well below their peers in the world's top - achieving countries in mathematics and science skill, according to a new study that judges American youths on an international scale.

GM: «Those students can often achieve high grades, perform well on the expectations for the year level, without a huge amount of effort.

Earlier this year, we published a report produced by a team of volunteer economists from Pro Bono Economics, which revealed that students who have taken a CREST Silver Award achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and were more likely to continue with STEM education, compared to a matched control group.

At the other extreme, more advanced students often achieve high grades on what, for them, are middling year - level expectations and are not challenged or extended in their mathematics learning.

On the other hand, one Year 4 student achieved a Level 3 certificate — the highest certificate available at the time.

In Massachusetts, a statewide system divides students into three grade chunks (from first grade all the way up to 12th) and focuses on children's likelihood of achieving progressive academic targets — all of which are separately considered indicators for high school graduation but also have more immediate relevance.

High - achieving students who feel pressured to attain perfection (and Ivy League acceptances) may turn to cheating as a way to find an edge on the competition or to keep a single bad test score from sabotaging months of hard work.

Covers info on how students can achieve high marks in A01 for GCSE Art and Design coursework.

They found that the arrival of low - achieving evacuees dragged down the average performance of the Houston students and had a particularly negative impact on high - achieving Houston kids.

Meanwhile, high - achieving evacuees had a positive effect on local students.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

This study concluded that «students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program.

Thus, we control for teacher experience (novice or not), and the following four classroom - level variables: percentage of high - achieving students, percentage of low - achieving students, percentage of students on IEPs, and percentage of ELLs.

It discusses an important trend in education litigation: the increasing reliance on theories of adequacy to achieve high - quality education for all students.