Sentences with phrase «performance than student»

Students enrolled in successive classes taught by effective teachers show greater gains in student performance than student groups taught by less effective teachers (Sanders & Rivers, 1996).

One study of second and third graders found that students who felt nervous when answering math questions had lower performance than students who had little or no math anxiety.

Not exact matches

Even though many women, African - Americans and Asians are older than other students, there are no significant differences between them and other groups on various measures of academic performance.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

And, what he found is that there were certain teachers who were reliably better able than others to improve their student's performance on these proxy measures.

The company believes that the USDA's new «Smart Snacks in School» rule, which is the first change to competitive food guidelines in more than 30 years, will lead to significant improvements in student health, happiness and overall performance — both in the classroom and on the athletic field.

Speaking in an interview with Kwame Tutu on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5 FM, she said,» the performance of students writing the West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) seems not encouraging but the results are slightly better than last year's.»

Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

It did, however, note that by its calculations, New York spends more per student than any other state in the country, even as performance on standardized testing continues to lag.

Education Commissioner John King says the results should be seen as a new baseline, rather than a decrease in student performance.

The governor said the change is needed because less than one percent of teachers were rated ineffective (the lowest category on the rating system) last year but students continued to «lag behind in performance.»

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

But between the two interviews, unbeknownst to the counselors, the students received help: One group watched videos of interview advice, while a second group had a practice session with the MACH simulated interviewer, but received no feedback other than a video of their own performance.

Actually, rather than «falling behind,» what has happened over the last 20 years is that the performance of U.S. students in math and science has stayed the same (rather than improved) while the performance of students in many other nations has grown exponentially, outdistancing our students.

In the first of three studies for their recent paper, Ehrlinger and her colleagues found that students who hold a fixed mindset about intelligence were more overconfident about their performance on a multiple - choice test than those with a growth mindset.

«The impact of OFS soaps will be greater than their detergent performance,» said University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science graduate student Kristeen Joseph.

Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.

And more reflection seemed to lead to better performance: Students who received the intervention prompt twice had higher final course grades than those who only received the prompt once.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

That was the bottom line of a new UT Dallas study that analyzed surveys of 19,000 male and female student - athletes at more than 1,100 colleges and universities in all three NCAA divisions to determine how various factors impacted their academic performance.

Starbucks regulars, online dating, addiction, Cupid and the advantages of depression are just a few of the subjects that will be brought to life at Solopalooza 2013, as more than 20 College of the Canyons theatre students perform original solo performances on May 29 and May 30.

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

Then, in 2005, he played the role of a young art student in Stay, with Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, though his reviews for this film were far less favourable than some of his previous performances.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

Experienced teachers are, on average, more effective at raising student performance than those in their early years of teaching.

And in the other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

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.

To be sure, this is less than half of the share of the public who support tying tenure to student performance, which remains at 58 percent.

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.

A PB approach to learning is when a student aims to do as well or better than their previous best efforts or performance.

The PBL students showed improved performance on a complex scenario test, measuring strategies for monitoring and influencing public policy, and performed as well as or better than traditionally - taught students on the AP U.S. Government test (Boss et al., 2011; Parker et al., 2013; Parker et al., 2011).

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Teachers received bonuses based on the overall performance of all tested students in their school, rather than just on the performance of students in their own classrooms.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

Because these assessments are likely to include some tasks that many students had little exposure to prior to 2010, and because the expectations for student performance represented by the standards are considerably higher than in many states» previous standards, the test scores are expected to be lower than in the past.

Proficiency rates on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) among charter students are not only consistently higher than those of students in their respective district sectors, but many of these rates compare favorably to the states with the highest average levels of performance.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

In another Pew study, while nearly three - quarters of high school teachers admit that digital research tools can have a positive impact on student performance, 87 % also say that digital tech has resulted in a generation of teenagers who are far more easily distracted than teens of the past.

The authors justify their omission of half of the available evidence by claiming that math performance is a better measure of school performance than reading, since students likely get nearly all of their math instruction in school but much of their reading instruction at home.

The paper also cites PISA data from 2012 showing girls studying physics «had lower confidence than their male classmates, despite tests revealing no difference in academic performance; and that students confidence in their maths abilities were more likely to embark on STEM careers».

For example, personal bests are goals that students can attain by performing as well or better than they did in a previous performance; they are seen as accessible by students and increase students» sense of confidence that they can learn successfully (Liem, Ginns, Martin, Stone, & Herrett, 2012).

These schools are receiving more students than similar schools, and there is evidence of real gains in student test performance.

There are also reasons to believe that subjective retention policies affect students differently than policies that use promotion criteria like performance on standardized tests.

Education Sector's 2011 survey, for example, found that more than 40 percent of teachers want their unions to focus more on teacher performance and student achievement and less than half consider unions to be absolutely essential.