Sentences with phrase «quality classroom assignments»

«Eleanor Dougherty provides a practical process for designing quality classroom assignments.

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One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

Finally, the researchers examined correlations among the nature of classroom assignments, the quality of student work, and scores on standardized tests.

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

Contrary to some expectations, we found high - quality assignments in some very disadvantaged Chicago classrooms and [found] that all students in these classes benefited from exposure to such instruction.

By analysing the quality of a text report or assignment can also be a measure of the effectiveness of a mobile learning course, as it is when the course is delivered through traditional e-learning or even through classroom sessions.

Using a variety of assessments, videotapes of classroom instruction, and surveys (student surveys are featured in the preliminary report), the project is attempting to address some of the heretofore under - addressed issues in the measurement of teacher quality (especially non-random classroom assignment and how different classroom practices lead to different outcomes, neither of which are part of this preliminary report).

Pulling from more than a decade of work to make classroom instruction more effective and manageable, she sets out to guide classroom teachers and administrators through the process for crafting high - quality assignments.

This article is primarily about (1) the extent to which the data generated by «high - quality observation systems» can inform principals» human capital decisions (e.g., teacher hiring, contract renewal, assignment to classrooms, professional development), and (2) the extent to which principals are relying less on test scores derived via value - added models (VAMs), when making the same decisions, and why.