Sentences with phrase «predict whether the student»

Specifically, we ran a statistical model that used the last grade served by the school that a student attended in grade 3 to predict whether the student attended a middle school.

Video: Matthew Chingos, an author of Crossing the Finish Line, talks with Education Next about which factors best predict whether students will graduate from college.

Matthew Chingos, an author of Crossing the Finish Line, talks with Education Next about which factors best predict whether students will graduate from college.

For each of their six students, teachers were asked to predict whether the student had responded

For instance, the academic intensity of a student's high school curriculum is one of the most important components in predicting whether a student will succeed in college, so a state may choose to focus one of its goals on students completing a college - and career - ready course of study.

«Because teachers could use the screening tool to accurately predict whether students would succeed or fail during the year, we now feel confident in using this tool when working with children, their teachers and their parents to help them succeed.»

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He added: «With research suggesting that some 55 per cent of predicted grades are currently inaccurate, this is a concern for students, whatever their background and whether they have received under or over predictions.

GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict students» future graduate school productivity, but reference letters from previous research advisers may provide clues about whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

The students studied various models trying to predict whether an exoplanet might have plate tectonics, but found little in scientific literature on how to directly detect tectonic plates.

Drawing on the same data, we will examine whether self - reported measures of students» non-tested outcomes predict related school behaviors (e.g., absences, suspensions, on - time grade progression, GPA) in subsequent years.

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

But the same effort to predict similarity between students will be weak if it is based only on knowledge of whether the students grew up in the same family or attended the same schools.

By examining whether high - scoring students perform better in college than low - scoring students, we can determine whether or not the exam scores have validity in predicting college outcomes.

The chief issue confronting the panel was whether the scores of students taking the test under standard conditions and with accommodations are «comparable» — in other words, whether they have the same weight and meaning and predict freshman GPAs with the same degree of accuracy.

To solve this problem, we used as an instrumental variable whether or not a student was offered a voucher to predict the probability that she attended a private school; with these predicted values, we can provide an unbiased estimate of the actual impact of switching from a public - to a private - school.

Our second research design uses each of these factors — a teacher's optimism, her assessment of a given student's attentiveness, and the student's enjoyment of her class — to predict her expectations of whether the student will complete college.

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

The essence of each measure is to predict whether individual students would answer each question correctly based on their past and future performance and to use these predictions to identify unexpected answer patterns.

«We work closely with architects and managers on their building plans in these situations, taking into account factors such as the predicted number of school students, as well as advice on the number of rooms they'll need to run programs, whether that's Science rooms, Art rooms, or Physical Education spaces,» she says.

Destination Graduation: Sixth Grade Early Warning Indicators for Baltimore City Schools: Their Prevalence and Impact examines the 2000 - 01 cohort of sixth grade students from Baltimore City Schools to determine whether there were indicators that predicted eventual dropout with a reasonable level of certainty and identified enough students to justify intervention efforts.

In a nutshell, she points out that the MET study asked whether actual observation of teaching, student surveys, or VAM test score measures did a better job of predicting future student test score growth, which «privileges» test scores by using it both as a variable being tested and as the outcome reflecting gains.

The Achievement Trajectory Tool allows administrators to contrast the predicted longitudinal achievement growth of students with different patterns of demographic characteristics depending whether they are placed or not placed in Science IDEAS.

Board president Arlene Silveira said it's not yet clear when the board will take up the proposed three - year contract with Chicago's TeacherMatch for a program its creators say can better predict whether prospective teachers will improve student achievement.

Whether benchmark tests predict how well students will score on the annual state test is questionable.

A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted.

After delaying a vote on a screening program its creators say can better predict whether prospective teachers will improve student achievement, the Madison School Board will take action on the matter later this month.

The Madison School Board had been expected to vote June 30 on whether to spend $ 273,000 over three years on software whose developers say features algorithms that can predict which prospective teachers are likely to raise student test scores.

Specifically, we test whether a teacher's performance on each measure under naturally occurring (i.e., non-experimental) settings predicts performance following random assignment of that teacher to a class of students.

Accordingly, the next lesson's Ponder and Predict asks students to contemplate how debt and wealth can be compatible and whether there's good debt and bad debt.

On page 87, the next lesson Ponder and Predict asks students to consider whether they've ever thought of pursuing a career overseas.

Study findings will show how accurately early warning indicators currently in use in these districts predict dropout for ELL and non-ELL students and whether different cut points for the indicators are more accurate for the ELL population.

That treasure trove of information enabled the consortium to determine with a high degree of reliability the organizational characteristics and practices that predict whether a school is likely to produce above - average improvement in student outcomes.

ACT Engage also can predict — with a remarkable degree of accuracy — how likely each of your first - year students is to return for a second year, and whether they will earn at least a 2.0 GPA.

ACT Engage College also can predict — with a remarkable degree of accuracy — how likely each of your first - year students is to return for a second year, and whether they will earn at least a 2.0 GPA.

There is little evidence about what predicts students» curricular dispersion, whether it affects later college or labor force outcomes, or, in fact, how to measure curricular dispersion.

Base FICO ® Scores, such as FICO ® Score 8, are designed to predict the likelihood of not paying as agreed in the future on any credit obligation, whether it's a mortgage, credit card, student loan or other credit product.

What best predicted the students» agreement or disagreement with a disputed call, the researchers found, was whether it favored or disfavored their schools» team.

Motivated in large part by the recent striking down of reverse discrimination laws and practices in the California and the consequent reduction in the numbers of Black and Hispanic law students in that state, as well as a sense that although the LSAT predicts law school grades well it doesn't predict success as a lawyer, the authors devised their own test of who should be admitted based on whether they would make good lawyers.

The aim was to determine whether a combination of sub-threshold depressive symptoms and early substance use can predict mood and anxiety disorders and poor psychosocial functioning longitudinally in secondary school students.

Just as alarming in terms of predicting loneliness and sadness were the low number of positive responses from students when asked their perceptions on whether people from other cultural backgrounds were «good», «honest», «nice / kind», «smart / intelligent» (see below).

The Journal of Family Psychology released a study that was led by Justin Lavner, a UCLA doctoral student in psychology, who studied whether or not cold feet before marriage seemed to predict divorce.