Sentences with phrase «school data resulting»

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Analyzing data from 2009 to 2014, researchers found that cheerleading ranks 18th out of 22 high school sports studied in terms of injury rate, but, ranked second - behind only gymnastics - in the proportion of injuries that resulted in an athlete being benched for at least three weeks or for the entire season.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

But wait just a minute: The researchers didn't have data on milk waste from the previous year at the 11 Oregon schools, so they used results from five New York City elementary schools (where chocolate milk was still available) as a comparison.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

The rankings were determined using the data recorded from the results of surveys taken by 137,000 students at 382 schools.

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

The new legislation would punish schools for falsifying that data while also requiring every school to release results of an anonymous student survey about assaults.

Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013 teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).

«We are in a scenario where we can collect massive amounts of genetic data using GWAS, but are realizing that does not provide the biological context we need in order to understand the results,» says Andy McCallion, Ph.D., assistant director of the human genetics graduate program and associate professor of molecular and comparative pathobiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

More than a decade of data indicates teens have become far less likely to abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results of a national survey analyzed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

The results of this trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.

Several of the studies were retracted after investigations by the medical schools and the health ministry turned up data manipulation that skewed results.

And should they doubt that something is a high school, the software makes the raw data available so they can verify the results, Brost said.

The previous schools have been extremely successful in delivering the training needed to prepare radio astronomy students to write their own proposals, reduce interferometry data and interpret their results.

Further adjustment for other dietary variables potentially related to inflammation (intakes of saturated fat, omega - 3 fatty acids, vitamin C or E, β - carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin, and coffee or fish consumption) and physical activity at baseline or postsecondary school qualification did not affect the results (data not shown).

Unfortunately, because the results of enrollment lotteries are not centrally collected in New York City, the data set limits the ability to look at the characteristics of charter school applicants there.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

We decided to reanalyze the data used by the CRP authors (the 2007 — 08 U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Ndata used by the CRP authors (the 2007 — 08 U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education NData (CCD) and we just published our results in «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

Data on the latest inspection results for English schools, published by Ofsted on 16 June 2015, shows that the proportion of schools rated good or outstanding is at its highest level on record.

The Department for Education (DfE) is publishing provisional league tables for secondary schools in England, based on early data from this summer's GCSE results.

Effective professional development is often seen as vital to school success and teacher satisfaction, but it has also been criticized for its cost, often vaguely determined goals, and for the lack of data on resulting teacher and school improvement that characterizes many efforts.

Data Wise: A Step - by - Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders.

This could result in the school making key decisions on data which is not accurate, therefore spending the surplus only to realise two months later it never really existed.

The results of public primary school students in South Australia will be analysed and used to direct extra funds, which will include using NAPLAN and other Department of Education and Child Development data.

Professor Becky Parker, director of IRIS said: «We're really looking forward to seeing the results from the MELT project, it's a great opportunity for schools to engage their students in work to impact the environment and use the latest satellite data.

«NAPLAN data and the My School website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrSchool website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrschool against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrounds.

Helpfully, using National School Boards Association data, the authors are able to assess actual district conditions with respect to school finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, class size, and academic standards, and they then matched that data with board - member survey reSchool Boards Association data, the authors are able to assess actual district conditions with respect to school finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, class size, and academic standards, and they then matched that data with board - member survey reschool finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, class size, and academic standards, and they then matched that data with board - member survey results.

The state publishes report cards with test data and assigns school ratings based, in part, on test results.

In fact, those schools that had accelerated the progress of their low - performing students — who were catching up with high - performing students — were those that regularly captured data for the purpose of improving results.

Nevada holds schools accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.

Gershenson and Papageorge examined data on educational attainment as well as survey results containing multiple teachers» predictions as to how far in school students were expected to go, such as to finish high school, start college, or earn a degree.

As a result, families are becoming smarter and pickier customers, using considerable amounts of publicly available data to decide which schools are the best fits for their kids.

Twelve years later, the result is a school that uses data in myriad ways and is truly data driven.

Although the NewSchools data set does not include state test results for individual students, it does include grade - level performance for most schools, which makes it possible to track improvement of cohorts of students from one year to the next.

Looking at these data across all the elementary and middle schools that had test results for at least one grade in 2007, one finds a fairly consistent pattern of improvement.

Although we are able to track school and grade - level performance over time, our data set does not capture individual student results.

If data are available, it's usually a result of the school's own curiosity or initiative — and even then, it's not always available publicly.

These data often provide a better measure of academic gain than do state test results, and they accurately reflect the period of time the student was in school.

Consider the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 — a brilliant piece of bipartisan politics and sweeping policy, which resulted in better student data and more accountable school systems (even if improvements in student outcomes were modest).

Klein's opponents also point to recent data on charter schools that show, as a whole, less than stellar results on Common Core — aligned English Language Arts assessments.

«The Strategic Data Project provides an opportunity for those of us on the ground to work directly with university - based researchers to improve the data and information we have access to so that we can make sure that what we're doing in our schools results in the significant change and the progress we need to see for our students.&raData Project provides an opportunity for those of us on the ground to work directly with university - based researchers to improve the data and information we have access to so that we can make sure that what we're doing in our schools results in the significant change and the progress we need to see for our students.&radata and information we have access to so that we can make sure that what we're doing in our schools results in the significant change and the progress we need to see for our students.»

The scholars analyze test results for the high - school graduating class of 2011, the most recent cohort for which data are available.

The results reported here are consistent with four similar studies - the 1973 High School Seniors Cohort Study, the National Educational Longitudinal Study, the Latino National Political Survey, and data collected from participants in school - choice programs in Washington, D.C., and Dayton,School Seniors Cohort Study, the National Educational Longitudinal Study, the Latino National Political Survey, and data collected from participants in school - choice programs in Washington, D.C., and Dayton,school - choice programs in Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

It reads: «Given concerns about both the design and administration of the new assessments, the lack of preparation for schools, the inadequate time to implement the new curriculum for the current cohort, and the variations in approaches between schools resulting from delayed and obscure guidance, it is hard to have confidence in the data produced by this round of assessments.»

As a result of the funding from HCNY and matching funds from the schools, 127 teachers and school leaders in the Bronx have taken part in six different online courses including Teaching for Understanding, Getting Started with Data Wise, and Using Multiple Intelligences.

Given that every approach has limitations, it makes sense to us to gather information based on as many approaches as data will support and use the results to ensure that school districts have adequate resources.

AEI's Rick Hess and Results for America's Bethany Little recently released a set of recommendations for a bipartisan «moneyball» approach to education, one that would help state and local school systems use data and evidence to improve student outcomes.