Sentences with phrase «over grades compared»

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There were only 14,170 officer grade staff working in public sector prisons in June 2014, compared to over 24,000 at the end of August 2010.

Similarly, first - grade INSIGHTS classrooms had higher teacher practices of classroom organization and lower classroom off - task behaviors over the school year compared to control classrooms.

In this quasi-experimental study on the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program, 11 LTTA schools were compared to control schools over three years to examine the benefits of an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum.

Betty Kistler's sixth grade students used the Internet to obtain weather in a country they were studying in - depth over a period of time; they then used Excel to record and compare the weather in that country to their own.

The table below shows that demographic shifts are particularly unlikely to explain the drops in 8th - grade scores, which fell by about three months of learning over the last two years, compared to an average demographic - predicted score decrease of about one month of learning every two years.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

Overall Ofqual reported that there was 572,000 queries over grades, another increase of 27 per cent compared to the previous year.

Teachers» leaders last week accused exam boards of creating a «massive muddle» after Ofqual data revealed that almost 74,000 GCSE grades were changed this summer, compared with just over 48,000 last year.

To test the hypothesis that publicly available information has an impact over and above direct observation of school performance, we can compare the ratings given by respondents whose schools were very close to the cutoffs in the point system used by Florida to assign school grades.

To test whether the benefit of KIPP pre-K fades out over time, researchers compared the difference in lottery winners» and losers» scores in reading in kindergarten and again in second grade.

Students with a growth mindset earned higher math grades over time compared to students with a fixed mindset.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

Over the summer, she analyzed their CMT scores and compared them to an end - of - year assessment from fourth grade, developing individual tests for the first week of school to see where students stood.

High - achieving students raced over, comparing their grades down to the hundredth, while less academic students shrugged off the opportunity to check their grades.

Research over the past three decades has shown that, compared to the general school population, the half - million foster children in the United States have poorer attendance rates, are less likely to perform at grade level, are more likely to have behavior and discipline problems, are more likely to be assigned to special education classes, and are less likely to attend college.

Jacobs said many West students made academic progress, but only those over a certain bar — above the 40th percentile, when compared to their academic peers — were given points under the new school grades.

This article briefly addresses findings by the Library Research Service that 45 percent of students in grades three through ten increased their CSAP test scores over the course of a year, compared with just 29 percent of students who did not have a school librarian at their school.

Although that's an improvement over our previous «F» grade, we're still the worst of the bunch compared to the other 24 countries in the study.

When compared to graded premiums, they seem to be higher at the beginning of your policy, however, they even out over the long term.

In 2016, more than a net $ 6.4 billion had flowed into high - yield mutual funds through the end of August, sending the sector higher by nearly 15 % YTD, compared to an approximately 7 % return for the S&P 500 and 4 % for investment - grade bonds over the same period.

Your geographic circumstance is certainly concerning as far as supplies go, but making the decision to feed your dogs human grade food as compared to pet grade food (as goes into nearly all dry and canned dog and cat foods) will likely reduce exposure to toxins and carcinogens over the years.

As Forrester's J.P. Gownder told TechRepublic: «In our student pilots that compared Chromebooks to iPads and several other devices, our students in grades 3 - 12 overwhelmingly preferred the laptop form factor over tablets.»

The study examined longitudinal patterns in bullying - related behavior over 18 months, comparing the longitudinal sample with control students in the same grade.