Sentences with phrase «poor achievement»

But to claim that teachers in such schools are causing poor achievement is certainly cause for concern, not to mention a professional and research - based ethics concern as well.

Special initiatives like Indigenous language programs are positive if they are done well but could discourage attendance if they make students conscious that their cultural background is what is driving poorer achievements.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

The Role of IES In our current environment, educational research has become even more important as the penalties of poor achievement and lack of opportunity have never been greater.

Hitt, McShane, and Wolf would err on the side of leniency for schools with poor achievement, holding out hope that they might be helping their students long - term in ways not captured by test scores.

Looking over the 2010 - 2011 Comprehensive Information Reports (CIR) for these schools, I was struck by how poor their achievement was.

In a third hypothesis, some individuals with CD and poor achievement especially those with reading disorder (dyslexia) have an underlying disorder of cognitive processing called the Hebb repetition effect, which includes selective impairment in cognitive tasks that involve processing of serial order, even for nonverbal modalities.

In a sample of 444 Chinese American adolescents (54 % females), we identified three distinct patterns of adjustment in early adolescence, middle adolescence, and emerging adulthood: the well - adjusted group, which was the largest, exhibited high achievement and low psychological distress; the poorly - adjusted group exhibited poor achievement and moderate distress; and the paradox group exhibited relatively high achievement and high distress.

To the contrary, Rothstein says, poor achievement in school is a larger problem that can't be laid in the laps of teachers.

«We can no longer tolerate a long tail of poor achievement that leaves many young people struggling and too many employers needing to help them catch up,» said CBI director - general, John Cridland.

Additionally, education leaders should be concerned about the troubling widening of the rich / poor achievement gap — an outcome at odds with stated policy goals and the fundamental principle of equal opportunity.

However, these low levels of assessed proficiency are not solely attributable to poor achievement by ELL students.

Expectations must not be lowered at any level — third may be better than 7th but it is still another trophyless season and a poor achievement for a club of this size and ambition.

Thus, these students become caught in a downward spiral of negative emotion and poor achievement.»

Both of these findings should be interpreted with care, however: inadequate supplies may have led to poor achievement, or principals of low - achieving schools may tend to blame their poor achievement on inadequate supplies.

In my most cynical moments, I never thought education leaders in any major school district could get away with purposely unleashing a small army of ill - equipped teachers on students who already suffer from inadequate schools and poor achievement.

After years of «fix - it» programs focused on reducing student violence, conflict, drug and alcohol use, absenteeism, poor achievement, etc., educators and parents now agree, creating a positive school or classroom environment is the most effective way to improve behavior and learning.

disadvantage and poor achievement are not necessarily tied to urban deprivation and inner city blight.

being poor is not «now considered a major reason» for poor achievement - it's a known fact based on empirical research that family socio - economic status in the main determinant of achievement.

Doing poorly on an assignment or failing a test denotes «poor achievement» and stands out to teachers, parents and society.

In a recent review of studies documenting Latino students» poor achievement in schools relative to other populations, however, Losey (1995) has been critical of investigations claiming a «cultural mismatch» between home and school since many do not, in her words, «collect or analyze data from real - life interactions in actual settings» (p. 288).

The poor achievement may be the key factor in depression.

In a second hypothesis, CD and poor achievement are functions of dysfunctional outside variables (eg, low socioeconomic status, an attention deficit disorder, nonsupportive family environment).

It predicts depression, poor physical health and mortality, and poor achievement.

«The Short - Term Impact of Two Classroom - Based Preventive Interventions on Aggressive and Shy Behaviors and Poor Achievement.»