Sentences with phrase «scale across grade»

How students are growing in mathematics skills and abilities on a single scale across grade levels.

The morning meeting also scales across grade levels, so that the higher grades are building upon the foundation laid in the lower grades.

Not exact matches

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

There are full scale required class productions in Grades 10 and 12, however, drama in the High School is often used to support other subjects across the curriculum.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

Perhaps in a move to reduce the potential for inconsistent application of A to E grades, the Victorian State Government negotiated to apply the A to E scale not to the relative quality of a student's performance against one year - level standard, but to a student's demonstrated achievement against curriculum standards across year levels.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Using variation in course - taking that arises both from changes in course offerings at particular campuses in a particular term and from variation across students in the distance that they have to travel to take in - person courses, we find that taking a course online reduces student grades by 0.44 points on the traditional four - point grading scale, approximately a 0.33 standard deviation decline relative to taking a course in - person (See Figure 1).

The mean GPA across all math courses taken after freshman year increased by 0.14 grade points on a 4.0 scale.

It may seem straightforward enough, but the scale of the project can be adjusted across different grade levels.

The school will scale project - based learning across other grade levels.

Scale scores allow for consistent reporting of assessment results across years for any specific grade and subject area.

Scale scores can not, however, be compared across other grades and subject areas.

A scale score is a mathematical conversion of the total number of points a student earned on an assessment into a score along a predefined scale, which allows for consistent reporting of assessment results across years for any specific grade and subject area.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

The new numbering system sets 9 as the highest grade, while 1 is the lowest — however fewer level - 9 grades will be awarded than A * grades have been in the past, in order to provide more differentiation across the top end of the scale.

In 2011 - 12, SCALE and Measured Progress Inc. partnered to design and pilot a scorer training module and to create a bank of anchor papers at varying grade levels across content areas.

Quality Counts grades the states and the nation on educational performance across a range of key indicators, issuing overall A-F grades based on a traditional 100 - point scale.

Yields of the Investment grade corporates as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index have tightened this month by 8 bps on average and across the rating scales range between 7 to 10 bps.

Satisfaction is examined across 11 different factors and graded on a 1000 - point scale.

In addition to examining how students rate themselves on individual questions in the survey, it is also important to look at how students rate themselves at different grade levels across multiple questions in a particular domain, or scale.