Sentences with phrase «particular teachers increased»

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Reducing the number of students who contribute to a teacher's value - added score not only changes the chance that a teacher will receive a particular rating; it also increases the likelihood that she will receive the wrong rating.

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardized tests.

In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced teachers and by providing teachers with increased supports for instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's classrooms and to receive meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from school leaders.

In short, the education research community needs to prime the pump of evidence - based education with a supply of research findings that are of immediate relevance to workaday decision - making, e.g., recruiting tools that enhance the effectiveness of the workforce; ways to increase the productivity of the central office; and differences in the impact of available curriculum materials for particular types of teachers and students.

In particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvement.

TPACK can be described as teachers» knowledge of when, where, and how to use technology, while guiding students to increase their knowledge and skills in particular content areas using appropriate pedagogical approaches (Brantley - Dias & Ertmer, 2013; Niess, 2011).

The Internet, in particular, has dramatically increased the amount of information being used by teachers and their students (Becker, 1999).

The authors ask whether the introduction of testing in the fourth grade has increased the turnover of fourth - grade teachers, whether testing differentially affected the decisions of teachers with particular attributes, and whether the characteristics of teachers entering the fourth grade changed with the introduction of testing.

In particular, a 2014 recovery plan for the teacher retirement system requires a steady increase in district contributions over seven years, which is causing belt tightening in many districts.

In other words, if we follow sequential cohorts of students from a grade level in a school, we should hypothesize to see a drop in achievement when a teacher with a very high value - added estimate leaves the school (or a particular grade), and an increase in achievement when a teacher with low value added leaves.

The increase in strategies and activities, in particular, demonstrates that after the initial course the teachers provided greater support for language and thinking in connection to the content and language objectives.

«A teacher who had been teaching at a particular grade level for more than 5 years was positively and significantly associated with increased student achievement (effect size =.27)... grade level experience was sizable compared to race (minority status effect size = -.33) and SES (economically disadvantaged effect size = -.08)....

It is refreshing that over the last year we have had positive signs from Justine Greening that the DfE may no longer be ideologically predisposed to any particular form of training, and we may finally have the opportunity for increased stability in teacher education and, more importantly, a greater emphasis on quality.

Teachers» sensitivity seems to be of particular importance in helping children with less favorable caregiving experiences... at home to become engaged in corrective relational experiences, and there is evidence that interventions aimed at increasing teachers» sensitivity can be sucTeachers» sensitivity seems to be of particular importance in helping children with less favorable caregiving experiences... at home to become engaged in corrective relational experiences, and there is evidence that interventions aimed at increasing teachers» sensitivity can be sucteachers» sensitivity can be successful.