Sentences with phrase «points on its academic performance»

Manual Arts High School students with disabilities jumped 71 points on the Academic Performance Index in a year where the special education department was staffed primarily by Teach For America - Los Angeles corps members and alums.

Not exact matches

Our academic performance on the international stage, once a point of pride among educators, is also cause for concern.

In addition, the children on average showed a roughly 7 - point IQ increase, and teachers and parents reported significant improvements in academic performance and behavior.

Mattson believes it is flawed, pointing out that the studies supporting this idea were based on schoolchildren who usually ate breakfast; a decline in their academic performance might simply be due to the ill effects that occur when people begin fasting.

Looking beyond just performance levels, the Suárez - Orozcos discovered that behavior was strongly linked to grade point average and that English proficiency had a huge effect on academic achievement.

Leaders must avoid finger pointing and bring parents and teachers together to refine and update the curriculum and then put the emphasis on student academic performance.

Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces academic performance by between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.

This anytime, anywhere access gives parents up - to - date information on academic performance and behavior, and alerts parents to problems before they reach a crisis point.

Over the course of five years, the average scores of its students on the state Academic Performance Index have risen more than 200 points, from 443 to 672 (in a range of 200 to 1,000).

WUHSD's average score on California's Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, with 800 to 1,000 being the desired level of performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and Performance Index (API), which is calculated on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, with 800 to 1,000 being the desired level of performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and is now 777.

The FSAA measures student academic performance on the Access Points (FS — AP) in Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.

Overall district scores on the state's Academic Performance Index jumped 28 points this year, exceeding the state average.

Proponents of Prop. 227 say English immersion is essential to students learning the language as quickly as possible, pointing to increases in academic performance by English learners on state tests since the law passed.

This year, the school had an Academic Performance Index score of 846, more than 200 points higher on average than schools that the state deemed similar, based on the students they serve.

There, teachers combined small group teacher instruction with computer - based learning throughout the school day, producing within one school year a 47 - point increase on the state's 1,000 - point measure of academic performance.

Predict short term and long term student performance based on academic and non-academic data points

Within the course of one school year, the combination of a data - driven focus on attendance, personalized early outreach, support from community partners, and a generally healthier school climate has helped cut Roosevelt's chronic absence rate from 15 to 8 percent, as the school's Academic Performance Index (API) score climbed by 30 points!

Crown Prep boasted an 801 score on the 1,000 - point state Academic Performance Index in 2011 - 12, compared to 24th Street Elementary's score of 666.

Crown Prep boasted an 801 score on the 1,000 - point state Academic Performance Index in 2011 - 12, compared to 24th Street Elementary's score of a 666.

In 2011, the school's Academic Performance Index (API) score shot up 82 points — a mammoth gain on the state's rating scale for schools, which goes from a low of 200 to a high of 1,000.

And crucially, Watanabe failed to note that, prior to Cobian's arrival in 2009, the school's score on the Academic Performance Index — the state's annual measure of test - score performance of schools and districts — was 717, or 23 points above the cityPerformance Index — the state's annual measure of test - score performance of schools and districts — was 717, or 23 points above the cityperformance of schools and districts — was 717, or 23 points above the city's average.

With an 88 - point gain on the Academic Performance Index (API) for 2011, GPA is the most improved middle and high school in San Diego Unified.

LaVerne Elementary scored a 911 on California's 1,000 - point Academic Performance Index last year, compared to Desert Trails» score of a 699.

Performance on state standardized tests also rose — as did the Academic Performance Index (API) score, which increased 54 points.

Overall, charter schools in the district scored 29 points higher on California's Academic Performance Index, with low - income students, Latinos, English language learners and blacks all outperforming their peers

He noted that Latino scores on the state's Academic Performance Index increased 40 points in 2012.

Academic and engagement - related indicators of readiness include student performance with respect to attendance, credit accumulation, course performance (grade point average and demonstration of proficiencies in context), performance on summative assessments, competitive course - taking patterns (Advanced Placement [AP], International Baccalaureate [IB], and career technical education options), and course completion.

Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership, on student academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99

According to the most recent academic performance results released by the California State Department of Education (CDE), on average, charter schools in OUSD outperform OUSD traditional public schools by 52 API points, averaging a 780 API to the district average of 728.

By integrating useful data on fiscal performance, governance stability and academic performance, USC's dashboard results point parents, policymakers and the movement itself to a fuller, yet nuanced response to the question of how charters perform, down to the school site level.

According to the Cowen institute, Green Dot schools «average more than 76 points higher on the California Academic Performance Index.»

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Grand Bay, AL (6/2010 to Present) School Administrator • Act as a first point of contact by welcoming new student, parents and visitors • Provide information regarding the school system, curriculum and enrollment requirements • Assist in developing academic programs and creating instructional resources for teachers to use in class • Train, encourage and mentor staff members and teachers and oversee their progress • Supervise teachers to ensure delivery of instruction in accordance to school curriculum • Confer with parents to provide them with feedback on their child's academic, personal, physical and emotional wellbeing • Prepare budgets on an annual basis and ensure that they are adhered to during each financial year • Coordinate efforts with vendors and suppliers to ensure that school supplies and equipment are purchased / procured in a timely manner • Formulate mission statements and ensure that all staff members work according to them • Establish performance goals and objectives and mentor staff members to work towards achieving them • Direct school maintenance services to ensure a consistently safe and clean school environment

The teratogenic effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the developing brain can lead to neurodevelopmental deficits in the child.10 At high levels of exposure, and during vulnerable time points during pregnancy, prenatal alcohol exposure has cognitive and behavioural impacts that may affect a child's academic performance and behaviour.11 12 In addition to in utero effects of alcohol, children exposed to heavy parental alcohol use postnatally have been identified as having abnormal developmental and social trajectories.

It concludes that these programs have short and long term positive consequences for students; in one particularly dramatic finding, «in follow - up assessments an average of 3.5 years after the last intervention, the academic performance of students exposed to SEL programs was an average 13 percentile points higher than their non-SEL peers, based on the eight studies that measured academics.»

[41] Focus on the Family points to academic studies which state that the presence of a father in the home increases children's cognitive and verbal skills, academic performance, involvement in or avoidance of high - risk behaviors and crime, and emotional and psychological health than children without a father.