Sentences with phrase «score students»

The authors did find that test score gains for lower - scoring students in lower - performing schools resulted in higher earnings for those students.

The test scores students receive on average at a high school determine how well those students are being educated.

Image one: teachers sitting together in their school, scoring student work on rigorous, no - stakes assessments.

Examples of scored student responses are also available for teachers and students to see actual work and the corresponding points earned on the student example.

Due to the testing scores my students received, my principal bought 40 more iPads.

For example, the highest scoring student will be matched with the first student on the list of lower scores.

Today, fewer than half of high - scoring students from low - income families even enroll at four - year schools.

The chronic absence metric scores a student as chronically absent with an attendance rate of 90 percent or less.

Teachers received $ 100 for each passing AP examination score their students earned.

But what about the math scores those students attain in 12th grade?

Fortunately, the fact that simply having entered school a year later increased the probability of retention for all low - scoring students again provides a way around this obvious selection problem.

The final stage of selection involves scoring student applications according to weighted scoring criteria that consider three factors: academic achievement, disadvantage, and responsibility.

Their principal was highly supportive and provided time for them to organize the project, collaboratively score student work and discuss results.

The credit score students were given was based on the results of a credit quiz that they took.

Either option can give students instant feedback and provides teachers with more time for instruction as the program scores student work itself.

And this makes percentile scores for the top - scoring students seem odd.

Some higher - scoring students choose not to enroll in advanced courses.

If top - scoring students tie, those students will be asked to write and be judged on a short essay so recipients can be determined.

Overall, students who took part in the programme saw their academic performance improve, with low - scoring students shown to experience particularly pronounced benefits.

But lower - scoring students in higher - performing schools experienced an even larger decline in later - life earnings.

Paying teachers, faculty, and other content experts to score student responses is costly, but it is currently the only effective way to measure important elements of the Common Core.

Nearly three out of four of the highest - scoring students from the most affluent families completed a college degree as of 2014.

Included: Electoral and Popular Vote Tally work sheets, a Candidate Position graphic organizer, a Campaign Timeline, a Presidential Order of Succession printable, and a rubric for scoring student debates.

Chasing prestige and battered by state funding cuts, many public colleges and universities with a historic responsibility to provide access to an affordable education have turned to «financial aid leveraging,» offering wealthy or high - scoring students discounts on tuition.

(In fact, local district schools probably benefit by gaining high - scoring students who leave Success.)

Value - added testing guru Bill Sanders has reported, based on Tennessee achievement data, that high - scoring students made adequate gains only with the top 20 % of teachers.

The list of schools in the federal doghouse likely would be much longer had state officials not lowered the minimum scores students need to meet standards in math and reading on the WASL in grades four and seven.

Their findings also suggested that classroom teachers scored students significantly higher than outside raters in the area of reading, where the lack of portfolio evidence was most likely supplemented by teachers» knowledge.

This protocol leads teachers through the process of scoring student work reliably and accurately using anchor papers, rubrics, scoring guidelines.

Studies finding biggest negative effects for highest - prepared students include Martorell & McFarlin (2011) and Scott - Clayton & Rodriguez (2012); studies finding smaller negative or even some positive effects for lower - scoring students include: Boatman, A. & Long, B. T. (2010).

The simple online scoring is designed for educators to reliably and efficiently score student performance and evaluate the quality of a student's inferential processes that occurred during reading and the mental representation that was constructed.

Gold, silver and bronze medals will go to the Top Scoring Students in each year group category.

Self - fulfilling low expectations for low scoring students.»

And even if they had drawn higher - scoring students out of the public schools, they enroll too few total students for that to explain the dramatic drop in public school PISA scores — particularly since the public school decline was already visible by 2003, at which point private school enrollment was still only 4 percent.

To build teacher capacity to create rich, valid performance tasks, and to reliably score student work, MCIEA performance assessment lead teams from a first cohort of 15 consortium schools are participating in a four - day institute over four months.

Wilson asserts that the quest for absolute objectivity in scoring student writing — including the use of rubrics — creates harmful distance between reader and writer and ignores the unique, transactional characteristics of writing.

Many of the students with lower scores had vastly overestimated their scores, while the higher - scoring students tended to think they scored worse than they actually did.

The larger effect of start times on low - scoring students suggests that delaying school start times may be an especially relevant policy change for school districts trying to meet minimum competency requirements (such as those mandated in the No Child Left Behind Act).

But it harms other low - scoring students such that:

Once Amrein and Berliner identified the high - stakes states, they looked at changes in the average scores students earned on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Higher - scoring students improved the most.

It ranks states based on 2013 NAEP scale scores, which means that it leverages the performance of extremely low and extremely high scoring students more than the proficiency rate measures.

The collateral damage includes narrowed curriculum, low - scoring students pushed out of school, and teaching to the test.»

We analyze a Massachusetts merit aid program that gives high - scoring students tuition waivers at in - state public colleges with lower graduation rates than available alternative colleges.

The College Board's website provides free examples of high - scoring student drawings, sculptures, and other works of art.

The Advanced Placement Art assessment also uses moderation to assign scores: trained judges score student artwork, giving each student his or her final AP score.

For low - scoring students at the high school, Lamkin said classes are built into their schedule to help them with the areas they struggle in.