Sentences with phrase «school comparison»

We should be doing random student assignment to teachers, and be doing within - school comparisons of teachers at the same grade level.

The new website allows for side - by - side school comparisons.

There are two potential explanations for why within - school comparisons change estimates of teacher effectiveness so much.

Districts with strong charter school comparison data include Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

Restricting analysis to within - school comparisons reduces the Asian — white gap in academic achievement and academic effort.

He includes volunteers in memo distributions and meetings about public - domain information such as benchmark data and school - to - school comparisons because they can help get out the «straight» information.

And we need to stop comparing district - wide averages of students with disabilities to individual charter schools — the averages hide extreme variation among schools and we should do school - to - school comparisons whenever necessary.

In algebra proficiency, the group's school - by - school comparison also shows schools at both ends of the achievement spectrum failing Latinos.

Not that a lack of a valid comparison stopped the American Federation of Teachers, which the Times credits for bringing the Education Department's charter school comparison to light.

Public Schools vs. Private Schools Third in our school comparison series on Public Schools versus Private Schools.

Private Schools vs. Charter Schools First article in series on school comparisons - private schools vs. charter schools.

(Most schools implement the roles gradually, allowing in - school comparisons.)

This impact is roughly comparable to that observed for variations in teacher effectiveness in studies that use the same kinds of within - school comparisons.

Each panel compares the rating of teachers using a value - added model with prior test scores and student covariates to placements from another model: (1) a value - added model that includes only a prior test score (Panels A and D); (2) the SGP model (Panels B and E); and (3) a value - added model that makes within - school comparisons (Panels C and F).

Strikingly, about 6 percent of teachers who are placed in the top quintile in reading by the value - added model with student covariates are placed in the bottom quintile by the value - added model that makes within - school comparisons, and vice versa.

The distinction between within - school and between - school comparisons is an important one, because teachers within the same school share the same organizational conditions (leadership and resources); are subject to similar contextual factors (neighborhood safety, parental support, norms that favor academic achievement); and, particularly in elementary school, they tend to teach students with similar levels of prior achievement.

[2] This discrepancy by itself does not mean that between - school comparisons are biased.

If the rankings are consistent, we have little reason to favor the within - school comparisons.