Sentences with phrase «science exam performance»

«Gender gap discovered in science exam performance: Test difficulty may be the cause.»

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By moving to a «mixed model» of student assessment — including lower - stakes exams, as well as quizzes and other assignments — instructors can decrease well established performance gaps between male and female students in science courses.

Simon Bensnes at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Department of Economics is writing his doctoral dissertation on education economics, and has studied the interplay between pollen levels and exam performance among secondary pupils.

Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per cent higher results than non ‑ active students.

An analysis of student performance on the state's standardized science exam has repeatedly shown that our students do better on questions that relate to the project - learning curriculum.

But because student - performance data on the state's standardized science exam indicated that our students did not understand these subject areas in a deep and meaningful way, the teachers decided to use a new approach: They chose to embrace a project - learning strategy to connect science and colonial history through a local historic site that dates back to the 1640s, the Saugus Iron Works.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earnPerformance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earnperformance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

Also, our findings are based on student performance on the TIMSS math and science exams, which are designed to measure mastery of factual knowledge of the curricula that schools expect students to learn.

Indeed, in the most recent PISA exams, the performance of America's children (considered as a whole) came in at just 27th in math, 20th in science, and 17th in reading.

A common assumption inside the school - reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's public - school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves.

The gap between high - and low - achieving students widened on a national math and science exam, a disparity that educators say is another sign that schools need to do more to lift the performance of their most challenged students.

Incorporated real - world examples, which guided students to above average performances on AP Math and Science exams.