Sentences with phrase «other students across grades»

The goal of the intervention is to improve high school graduation rates among participating youths by improving their academic achievement, social — emotional skills, school attachment, and relationships with other students across grades.

Not exact matches

The journal is designed to provide students from grades 7 to 12 with an opportunity to communicate their school - based science and technology experiences with other students across the province of Ontario and perhaps even the country, as well as an opportunity to test their writing skills and their artwork.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

I use national data to show how many students would be excluded from accountability measures at different n - sizes and how other combining data across grade levels or years within a school can include more students in the accountability process.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

But the guidelines for what students should learn in each grade have a low level of rigor compared with those of some other states, content is repeated across and within grades, and the tests are not as challenging as they should be, the analysis concludes.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

These students and tens of thousands of others across the country are the victims of social promotion, the practice of promoting students from one grade to the next regardless of academic achievement.

School - based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest.

• teachers know how their students compare with others across the state, and help the next grade's teachers know what kind of support incoming students need;

Other features, from designing questions and tracking a student's yearly progress to generating reports and instantly grading assignments, have won teachers over across the country.

SuperTeacherWorksheets A collection of math, language arts and other special worksheets that allow student practice across grade levels.

Moreover, looking at the absolute performance of our students on the 2011 NAEP — rather than relative to other states — fewer than half of NJ students were deemed «proficient» across fourth - and eighth - grade math and reading.

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with students in other elementary grades and middle school — across the country and in the mid-Atlantic region.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

Students, across grade level spans, are asked to persevere in solving problems and communicate about their problem solving (in addition to critiquing the reasoning of others).

For the most part, children are assigned to a grade level based on the year they were born and are expected to advance at roughly the same pace as their same - aged peers across all subjects — a system that bores advanced students while others struggle to keep up.

A prior study in Maine — showing ASSISTments provided nearly a year of additional gains for seventh grade math students — will be replicated in other school districts across the country

Other school structures like All School Meeting, school - wide service time and buddy program help to not only ensure students know their classmates, but that students develop connections and friendships across grades.

White students in the district outperform white students across the state on all tests at all grade levels, and black students outperform other black students across the state on most state tests.

Not only does summer learning loss accumulate across the 3 - month vacation, it also accumulates across grade levels and usually affects some students more than others.

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»

Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged than boys, White students and Asian American students are more engaged than other races across all three dimensions, students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income students report more engagement, and students who begin and stay at their high school starting in the ninth grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.

The Test Score Rating measures schools on proficiency, using performance (the percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency) on state assessments across grades and subjects, compared to other schools in the state, to produce a 1 - 10 rating for each school.

For the past three years every student in our school has met or exceeded every standard in reading, writing, math, and science across all our grades K - 6; in other words, we have a 100 % passing rate.

NAEP, dubbed «The Nation's Report Card,» is a set of standardized tests given to a representative sample of students in 4th grade, 8th grade, and high school from all states every other year, and it is the only consistent measurement of student knowledge across 4 decades of administration.

In this inaugural post of The Neighborhood, five classroom teachers from across grade levels discuss what happens when students teach each other using video.

Collegial work groups (e.g., grade level teams, school improvement teams), sharing of expertise, networking of teachers and principals across schools, cross-role leadership and school improvement teams at school and district levels — all these and many other configurations of professional educators collaborating with one another on student achievement - focused district reform initiatives are indicative of a common emphasis on teamwork and professional community as one of the keys to continuous improvement.

I worked collaboratively with other teachers across grade - levels to assess necessary technological skills for students.