Sentences with phrase «results place students»

The results place students in one of four categories: standard exceeded, standard met, standard nearly met and standard not met.

Not exact matches

It has been a very successful year for Oxford University Octopush Club, with a fourth place finish at student nationals for the A team (joint best result) and a win in the inaugural Varsity match away, at the very end of Trinity term.

As a result, many EL students will tell you that their crew is the place at school where they most feel a sense of belonging; for some of them, it's the place where they most feel a sense of belonging, period.

Students had the opportunity to test new items and results were used to determine whether the item would be placed on the upcoming menu.

As a result, they know how to interact properly with their teachers, the staff and their fellow students, turning their school and their classrooms into a better place.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

As thousands of students pick up their A-level results today, analysts are expecting many to fail to secure a university place, as a small army of school - leavers skip the gap year in order to attend university before higher tuition fees hit next year.

«At the moment, students who achieve better results than expected have to defer their application for a year or settle for a place at a less prestigious university,» said general secretary Martin Ward.

«After days of analysis and numbers - crunching, the results are clear: While charter schools will see a boost next year, the new formula which will be put in place will prevent funding parity with other public school students,» said NECSN director Andrea Rogers.

Access to state - supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

These strategies require tremendous amounts of energy and place additional emotional and mental strain on the students, often resulting in academic and social isolation, making «engineering school a hostile place for many LGB identifying students,» according to Cech.

The resulting enrollment projections allowed the government to «develop a comprehensive plan to ensure every willing and qualified student continues to find a place in a college or university program,» according to Minister Cunningham, who responded to Next Wave Canada's questions by e-mail.

Their results appear in the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk.

This situation has resulted in a yawning gap between information and understanding that can only be addressed by «bringing all of that data into one place and seeing how it fits together,» according to Stanford bioengineering graduate student and co-first author Jayodita Sanghvi.

The result is Sleeping Beauty, an art house drama which stars Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) as Lucy, a university student who takes on a high paying job fulfilling the fantasies of older men while she is placed in a deep sleep.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

Under D.C. regulations, the schools chancellor has the power to place students directly into schools, regardless of their lottery results, but that authority is supposed to be limited to cases when it «would be in the best interests of the student» and «promote the overall interests of the school system.»

Kelly will often place his students in optimal learning environments based on their survey results.

With place - based learning, students get to see the results of their work in their community.

With the latest GCSE results showing the sharpest decline in the percentage of students achieving C grades or above since 1988, and school leaders saying that pupils are bringing more worries into school than they did five years ago, these statistics highlight the concerns for students» mental wellbeing and suggest that today's students are struggling to cope with the increasing demands placed on them by exams.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

While the grade - fixing scandal and Mad Max - style student fights discovered as a result are what earned South Oak Cliff a spot in the «Unbelievable School Decisions» series, the decision to hire Moten in the first place could very easily have constituted an entry by itself.

Studytracks really works, and with tens of thousands of teachers under one roof, Bett is the perfect place for us to show them how our app can really help their students to retain information, increase attainments, and improve exam results.»

Australian Parents Council Executive Director, Ian Dalton, told Education Matters parents were pleased with the move to online NAPLAN testing as it will provide the capacity for students to be tested according to their level of ability and faster availability of results means that remedial programs can be put into place more quickly.

The result is the «intent - to - treat» effect of winning a lottery; it is an intent because students offered a place in their first - choice school did not always take it (for example, they may have moved out of the district).

Mr Randall said individual student results were correct and the error was only in the background sheet on which the results are printed in relation to other measures, which meant some students would have been incorrectly placed as above or below the national mean.

In light of these results, our students have already secured places at some of the top universities in the country and we all share their feelings of relief and delight.

The policy's greatest benefits could result not from retention itself, but rather from increased efforts on the part of teachers and even students to avoid being retained in the first place.

The result is that in many places there is still no clear connection between student academic achievement and educator evaluations.

From these remarkable people — their respect and generosity — I learned that the magic of this place is the result of the many voices that contribute to a conversation about what it means to educate in our time and how best to support the opportunities to be educated for each student.

Separate and apart from overall averages, there has been continuing concern for the level of skills among racial / ethnic minorities as well as concern for the effects of accountability on low - versus high - performing students (specifically, whether or not NCLB placed so much attention on low - performing students that high - performing students were neglected and suffered as a result).

On occasion, a specific study might find any one of these factors to be correlated with student performance, but, taken together, the vast proportion of results across a wide array of studies has found no statistically significant connection between the standard resources available to schools and the amount of learning taking place within the building.

After Scottish Qualifications Authority results were released across Scotland at 09:30 yesterday, UCAS has confirmed that so far 28,700 Scottish students have had their places in higher education confirmed.

RAND II, by contrast, ignored student background, placed more weight on a different subset of test results (including the 1998 results, which were not included in RAND I), used somewhat different approaches, and concluded that there was nothing special about performance in Texas.

«Well done to all those students who have worked so hard to get their results and secure their place at university or college.

As a result, universities are no longer guaranteed funding for a set number of student places.

In 2006, the MCAS results placed only 42 percent of Tucker students passing in English Language Arts (ELA) and the school remained on the state's «needs improvement» list.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

The basic claim in this lawsuit is that California's handling of teacher tenure, dismissal, and the like are resulting in grossly ineffective teachers being placed in classrooms; that these teachers are disproportionately affecting low - income and minority students; and that this violates the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

For example, performance pay could be more widely used in places where, as in Asia, cultural expectations for student performance are high, making it appear that performance pay systems are effective, when in fact both performance pay plans and student achievement are the result of underlying cultural characteristics.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

Having a central system in place makes it simple for teachers to quickly and easily access student data and compare progress individually, across groups or whole classes at a glance, without having the headache of referring to previous paper notes and test results filed away throughout the year.

Although a Flipped Classroom may appear chaotic, loud, or even messy at first glance, the action and collaboration taking place in this non-traditional classroom is a direct result of student learning.

Exam results day in Scotland has seen more students receive a university place than in any previous year.

High - performing Sharnbrook Upper School is celebrating record A level results today — with students achieving outstanding grades and many securing places at some of the world's best universities.

A Level results day is a defining moment for most students, but when 18 - year - old K - Ryan saw he had the top grades needed to beat tough competition for a place to study astrophysics at the University of Birmingham, he realised the door had opened on a future where the sky is literally the limit.

«Our sixth form is committed to supporting our students achieving the very best results possible, including navigating the university application process so that they can secure places at Russell Group universities, including Oxbridge.

«These results demonstrate the hard work by students and the dedicated teaching taking place in NSW classrooms,» Ms Berejiklian said.

The hope is that if enough of these efforts show sustained results, funding priorities may change, and programs such as Quiet Time could find a place next to blended learning, English - language learning, and other strategies that make a substantive difference for students who face a steeper path to success.