Sentences with phrase «particular letter grade»

A letter grade also may be modified to indicate relative standing within a particular letter grade.

Once that overall impression is made, going in and digging into the data and looking at a dashboard of measures will reveal what happened in that school to earn that particular letter grade.

Not exact matches

Being able to draw in parents, the public, policymakers, and others who are interested in education, we need something to be able to say, «This particular school is high - performing or not a high - performing school,» and then provide additional information that supports that letter grade.

Most importantly, we control for the letter grades that schools received from the state's accountability system; schools with lower grades may feel particular pressure to increase their scores to avoid accountability sanctions, independent of the effects of the FTC program.

Our primary measure of teachers» grading standards is the average gap between the letter grades given by particular teachers and the FCAT scores attained by their students.

In particular, schools with 25 percentage points more African American students received ratings that were 15 percent of a letter grade lower, while schools with 24 percentage points more Hispanic students received ratings that were 16 percent of a letter grade lower.

They began by defining letter grades as indicators of particular levels of mastery, rather than the number of points earned.

Once an admission counselor has prospected students, he or she is expected to interview them, evaluate their grades and examine recommendation letters in order to evaluate their eligibility for a particular academic program.