Sentences with phrase «schools analyze students»

Educators in the Lancaster schools analyze students» state and district test scores to improve instruction.

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During most MBA programs, business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies of many different kinds of companies, analyzing the cost of bringing new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.

For this study, we analyzed student loan debt data from 1,138 schools in the United States, including student loan debt per borrower, proportion of graduates with student loan debt, and the number of borrowers from the Class of 2016.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Learn how to gather, analyze, and compile breakfast data into a report that can be used to draw attention to areas of your state that could reach more low - income students with the School Breakfast Program.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

University of Washington researchers analyzed more than 1.7 million school lunches selected by students in three middle schools and three high schools near Seattle over a 31 - month period.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

We may be living in an information age, but New York City's public school students are being cheated out of the skills they need to evaluate, process and analyze information because school libraries and librarian positions are drastically underfunded, UFT Assistant Secretary Robert Astrowsky told a City Council hearing on May 6.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Six - day summer immersion workshops are also available for high school students to follow a line of scientific inquiry in a lab setting, analyze data, discuss the ethics of scientific research, and present their findings to their peers and scientist - advisors.

Stickley and his colleagues used information from the Social and Health Assessment (SAHA), a cross-sectional school - based survey carried out in Arkhangelsk, Russia, to analyze data on 2,488 (1485 girls, 1003 boys) 6th to 10th grade students (aged 13 to17 years old).

Spengler and her coauthors analyzed data collected by the American Institutes for Research from 346,660 U.S. high school students in 1960, along with follow - up data from 81,912 of those students 11 years later and 1,952 of them 50 years later.

Featuring over 30 research papers at any given time, students at the high school and college academic levels will find the online tools they need to analyze a professional research paper.

In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 1.7 million K - 12 students in Ohio who attended a traditional public school, charter school, or an online charter school between the 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13 school years.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

Russell and colleagues analyzed surveys of the seventh -, ninth - and 11th - grade students from nearly half of the schools across the state.

The researchers analyzed data from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 15,425 public and private high school students.

In the future, Frankenberg plans to analyze student assignment policies in other school districts, and compare school histories and how they might be affecting policies.

The new study analyzed results from 82 different programs involving more than 97,000 students from kindergarten to middle school in the U.S., Europe and the U.K. where the effects were assessed at least six months after the programs completed.

«It's possible that the negative effect that we have detected will disappear at that point, because in secondary school, the students have a higher level of English,» says Carro, who also proposes another topic to be analyzed: find out what other factors can influence the program's results, such a the importance of the teachers» level of English.

Adam Peruta and Jack Powers, along with a team of students, analyzed 196 commercial presenters during weekday after - school programming on the cable station Nickelodeon.

The surveys analyzed by the researchers tracked students as they graduated from high school and entered college, following up with them 3 and 10 years after they had left college.

Stephen Kilgus, an associate professor in the Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Missouri, is analyzing how a new screening tool, which is completed by students, can help teachers identify potential academic, social and emotional problems.

To determine the prevalence of texting while driving among youths, Bailin and her colleagues analyzed data from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 7,833 high school students who were old enough to get a driver's license in their state.

Over a period of two years, the research team analyzed various factors affecting 330 students at 200 schools, including socioeconomic factors, school food environments, and cavity prevention programs.

RAND researchers analyzed information collected from 8,214 students enrolled in 6th, 7th and 8th grade who attended 16 Southern California middle schools during 2010 and 2011.

Yuste's training started when he was a high school student, analyzing blood samples in a laboratory run by his mother, a pharmacist in Madrid.

Ranjit and her colleagues analyzed data from a survey of more than 15,000 middle - and high - school students in Texas.

Teachers Find Election 2016 Tricky to Navigate in the Classroom Education Week, 9/14/16 «Indeed, having students analyze issues beyond the campaign rhetoric is one of many ways that teachers are approaching the 2016 election, said Meira Levinson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who has been holding professional - development sessions on the election with teachers.»

As part of the study we are also asking students in grades 3 - 12 to write short essays in response to paintings that they have probably never seen before to assess how they critically analyze a new work of art after they've had a school tour of an art museum.

In November 2005, participating schools were provided with the tools to analyze their own test data to ascertain where their students needed the most help.

Not long ago, my colleague Michael Horn wrote about a new study out of Columbia Teachers College that analyzes the student performance results of Teach to One during the most recent school year.

This variety of sources can leave middle and high school students confused about which techniques to use to comprehend, analyze, and synthesize what's in front of them, as well as which reading to...

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

Students analyze several classrooms at their school, interview teachers, research pets, and make informed recommendations about which pet is right for each classroom.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

Foster critical thinking to help students analyze negative and stereotypical messages, in school and in the wider world.

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional - development program for upper - elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the «Student Thinking Lens» and the «Science Content Storyline Lens,» to analyze videos of teaching practice.

Canby, a district of nine schools and about 5,000 students, now has about fifty classrooms using iPods of various types and the project has extended into high school, where students are listening to audiobooks and using video cameras to analyze their presentation skills.

As part of earning a Rappaport Fellowship from the Kennedy School, this past summer she interned with Carolyn Riley, Boston Public Schools» senior director of unified student services, analyzing MCAS test results.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Each school must gather and analyze data on incidents of mistreatment and victimization, and tap student voice and involvement and student and staff perception of climate, using anonymous surveys that allow for disaggregation of data while protecting confidentiality.

But the only two quantitative studies that analyze data from nationally representative samples of high - school students dismiss it altogether as cultural lore.

I've used Tupac's autobiographical poem «The Rose That Grew From Concrete» to teach students how to analyze poetry, and the young - adult novel Hip - Hop High School was added to our summer reading list to help students increase their SAT vocabulary.

Arkansas is the first state in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000 public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were taken by school nurses across the state and analyzed.

«Rather than a chalk - and - talk method for forty minutes, you learn strategies to help students investigate and analyze material, and learn it without a lecture,» says Constance Addabbo, assistant principal and IB coordinator of Dobbs Ferry High School, in suburban Westchester County, New York.

In My School, Your School, for example, students can simply share, analyze, and report on information about their respective schools.

The key to this new emphasis on achievement was the TRIAND data - management system, developed in partnership with a local software vendor to capture, analyze, and share specific student achievement data among administrators, school leaders, teachers, and even parents.

Their first method analyzed information on 1,475 students (20 % of the total 7,338 sample) who had attended schools with a voucher for part of their education but had also been in public schools.