Sentences with phrase «school performance data for»

Note that most states do not make the school performance data for a given school year publicly available until the midpoint of the next school year.

We have disaggregated the school performance data for 2011 in the...

Commenting on the release yesterday of secondary school performance data for England in 2015/16, teachers union NAHT says pupils who would be more suited to a broader range of GCSE subjects are not being served well by having their subjects restricted by EBacc.

Not exact matches

The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

Entirely justifiably, teachers and school leaders remain concerned that inspection outcomes do not always give credit for the full extent of schools» achievements, especially those that are not readily captured by pupil performance data.

The study is co-authored by Jeff Russell, an assistant professor in Ohio University's College of Health Sciences and Professions and director of the Clinic for Science and Health in Artistic Performance (SHAPe Clinic), and Brooke Daniell, who collected data for the study as a senior athletic training undergraduate in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness honors program.

The ability to predict the need for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to improve health services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.

Collect the facts about schools and student performance and let the data speak for themselves.

For instance, submitting homework on a tablet allows the school — and even the district — to collect performance data.

In a wide - ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the problem with interpreting the performance data of EAL children too simplistically, issues with «immersion» programmes and the lack of support for schools in helping EAL children in the classroom.

Arkansas uses its testing data to track school performance and hold schools accountable for student achievement.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

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

We conducted our analysis alternately using absolute student achievement, measured with statewide mean SAT scores for the 1989 — 90 school year and the mean high - school dropout rate calculated from 1990 census data, and with a second measure that represents the deviation of actual achievement from expected student performance.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five yeaFor some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five yeafor the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

The question is not whether to have a teacher evaluation program tied to student performance — the City school system has been rating 12,000 elementary and middle school teachers for several years already — but whether to release the «data.»

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.

This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public sSchools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public schoolsschools.

With all the attention being paid these days to school accountability for students» performance on academic assessments, it's easy to overlook an indicator like attendance, especially when the data don't set off alarm bells.

«In the 21,000 - student Syracuse city school system in New York, which was recently accepted into the Strategic Data Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&raData Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&radata uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.»

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

Parents armed with data about school performance will in theory choose the best school for their children.

Ms Warren said that the research also examined parents» reasons for changing primary schools and cross-matched findings with MySchool data, which provides parents with information about schools» NAPLAN performance and levels of community advantage.

Voters and parents are expected to make use of these data in choosing school districts or schools, and to hold administrators and school board members accountable for the schools» performance at each election.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

A Wall Street company that provides independent financial analyses and credit ratings for businesses and school districts is offering a service that will enable states to link data about financial expenditures with academic results and compare performance across districts.

New means of accountability, such as the Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the IntSchool Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Intschool performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Internet.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

It says Ofsted is engaging with the Department for Education in a «data science project» to «explore the possibility of using near - realtime data and information from social media and other sources to predict and prevent decline in school performance».

«The schools will have the data they need to drive student performance up, to monitor progress, to tailor learning programs, to create collaborative learning environments where collaborative problem solving can be assessed... and from that, the system will be able to get the data it needs to monitor performance without asking for anything extra.

Education researcher Gerald Bracey, for example, has argued that no one has «provided any data on the relationship between the economy's health and the performance of schools.

Despite some drawbacks, demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school performance, and show that there are substantial differences across states, even after adjusting for demographics.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

Beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, for each school identified for preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the local school district shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional assessment data, which may include, but need not be limited to, valid and reliable measures of: the performance of students in grades other than those in which the State tests are administered; the performance of limited English proficient students and / or other students with special needs; and the progress that specific grades have made or that cohorts of students in the school have made towards demonstrating higher student performance.

For example, we had a presentation on our PIPS [Performance Indicators in Primary Schools] data, looking at Prep at the beginning and Prep at the end, sharing that and what are our improvement goals for this group of childrFor example, we had a presentation on our PIPS [Performance Indicators in Primary Schools] data, looking at Prep at the beginning and Prep at the end, sharing that and what are our improvement goals for this group of childrfor this group of children.

Using data from the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a benchmarking test of 15 - year - olds in 33 countries, researchers led by Margriet van Hek, a sociologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, looked at how school characteristics affected boys» and girls» reading performance.

Beland, an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, and Murphy, an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas and Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, collected data from schools in Birmingham, Leicester, London and Manchester in 2013.

The data comes as the government has reiterated its case for «continued pay restraint», alongside «additional flexibilities for schools and incentives to recognise performance».

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scSchool Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scschool recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

Please see the «NJ Education Facts» section of our website for the full NAEP results, data on the achievement gap and US performance on international tests, and independent rankings of the NJ school system.

The Cleveland Transformation Alliance maintains a website that includes school performance data, community ratings, and other logistical information for each school in the city, but there is not a common and coordinated enrollment system as in Washington, D.C. and other cities.

College / Career Indicator Reports and Data The College / Career Indicator uses multiple measures to provide a performance level based on the number of students who are likely prepared for success after high school.

[3] Community eligibility schools are not required to find their Identified Students each year, but would benefit from doing so because their free reimbursement percentage could increase, it can help their state meet direct certification performance benchmarks, and it would allow them to use the data for purposes outside the meals programs.

The commissioner may also place under registration review any school for which a district fails to provide in a timely manner the student performance data required by the commissioner to conduct the annual assessment of the school's performance or any school in which excessive percentages of students fail to fully participate in the State assessment program.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.