They can be powerful tools for learning, providing
significant gains in achievement (Heid & Blume, 2008; Suh & Moyer - Peckenham, 2007).
Yet despite the louder outcry against curriculum - based tests, I believe they hold far more promise than skills - based tests to promote
significant gains in achievement and equity.
Both showed
significant gains in achievement for students in smaller classes, with larger gains among minority and disadvantaged students.
On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make
significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).
Not exact matches
Once we begin to think of our faith
in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith
in terms of measurable success or
significant achievements or community stature or statistically
significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.
Once we begin to think of our faith
in terms of largeness instead of largess or
in terms of measurable success or
significant achievements or community stature or statistically
significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.
Enrolled children demonstrate
significant gains in healthy social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development and the
achievement of social competence.
She managed the historic introduction of universal pre-K and oversaw
significant gains in student
achievement from test scores to high school graduation rates.
Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed
significant increases
in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A
significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a
gain of at least one performance level
in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students
in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a
significant improvement
in overall academic
achievement compared to students
in the control group, which showed only a slight
gain.
Critics will continue to point to the fact that no impacts of the program have been observed
in math, or that applicants from SINI schools, who were a service priority, have not demonstrated statistically
significant achievement gains at the subgroup level, as reasons to characterize these findings as disappointing.
The vast preponderance of studies on the use of media and / or technology do not show
significant gains in student
achievement, at least
in regards to what the assessments are assessing.
A 2009 report establishes the extent to which different kinds of schools have produced
significant achievement gains in Boston
Analyses of high - stakes exam systems around the world have demonstrated that they lead to
significant achievement gains, but these are not comparable to the moderate - stakes system
in Michigan.
We find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and statistically
significant increases
in the math
achievement of 4th graders and that these
gains were concentrated among African American and Hispanic students and among students who were eligible for subsidized lunch.
«Instruction was aligned with standards, and as a school we made
significant gains in student
achievement.»
Participation
in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance
in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance
in school, as measured by
achievement test scores and grades;
significant gains in academic
achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement
in learning.
As
in the case of preschool, there is some research evidence that suggests class - size reduction can yield
significant gains in student
achievement in the early grades.
This may be why the U.S. has seen
significant achievement growth for its lowest - performing students over the last twenty years (especially
in fourth and eighth grades, and particularly
in math), but minimal
gains for its top students.
However, voucher students began to show signs of improvement by their fourth year
in a private school, and
in that year there was no statistically
significant difference between them and their public - school peers
in terms of total
achievement gains from baseline.
To get out from those provisions of No Child Left Behind, Oregon promised the feds
in 2012 that by summer 2013, Oregon would have a plan to use student
achievement gains as «a
significant factor» when evaluating teachers and principals.
An independent, gold - standard randomized controlled trial published
in September 2015 found that students who used Achieve3000 saw statistically
significant and substantively important
gains in literacy
achievement.
At the heart of this effort is a focus on producing «
significant gains»
in student
achievement and creating support systems aligned with that goal.
An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically
significant effect on math
achievement that rivals student -
achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.
As part of his recent research on models of effective schooling, Fryer identified five practices that largely explain
significant student
achievement gains in high - performing charter schools.
With 1.4 million students
in 4,600 schools, charters are by far the most
significant achievement of the «choice» movement that strives to promote educational
gains through school competition.
The new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, reviewed 35 scientifically rigorous studies conducted over the past 30 years which showed
significant gains in student
achievement resulting from teacher development programs.
During her tenure, she drove
significant shifts
in ICTC's approach to teacher preparation resulting
in substantial
gains in student
achievement.
Students across our state are making
significant gains in academic performance, and we are seeing real progress closing the
achievement gap among students of color.
If every teacher
in your district incrementally improves
in only one or two instructional strategies every year for 10 years, then you can be confident that the cumulative effect will be
significant gains in student
achievement.
Descriptive feedback is essential for students to understand how they can respond to Sadler's three questions; it is also one of the key components that lead to
significant gains in student
achievement (Black & Wiliam, 1998).
At Anna Yates, she led the school to
significant achievement gains and improvements
in the educational experience of students through community partnerships, parent outreach, and smaller learning communities.
It can also help students make
significant gains in academic
achievement — on average, a
gain of 11 percentile points
in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published
in the journal Child Development.
The department comparisons shall be made to determine if there is any
significant difference
in the performance of these groups of teachers, as measured by their students»
achievement levels and learning
gains as measured by s. 1008.22.
The report says that students have made
significant gains in math and reading since the passage of NCLB; and
achievement gaps between white and minority students have closed somewhat since 2002.
Still, the Education Northwest evaluation team
gained valuable information from the study, including the lesson that it is possible to make a statistically
significant difference
in the reading
achievement of struggling readers
in a single year.
Researchers found
significant achievement gains for students
in small kindergarten classes and additional
gains in 1st grade, especially for black students.
Outstanding educators, more time
in school, a rigorous college - preparatory curriculum, and a strong culture of
achievement and support help our students make
significant academic
gains.
While experiencing great
gains in student academic
achievement, Reynoldsburg Junior High School has also gone through a
significant organizational transformation.
Do you believe your current focus on student learning has resulted
in significant achievement gains?
In fact, cities and states with strong school choice programs have seen significant achievement gains in their public schools as increased student options encourages them to be more competitiv
In fact, cities and states with strong school choice programs have seen
significant achievement gains in their public schools as increased student options encourages them to be more competitiv
in their public schools as increased student options encourages them to be more competitive.
After three years of repeating 12 - week change cycles that focused on overcoming a specific teaching challenge with technical assistance from Education Northwest, Springdale has realized
significant student
achievement gains in reading and mathematics through an approach called Success Now!
As reported
in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major
achievement impacts, including test score
gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school
in math, with
significant gains in science and English.
Our staff work alongside our school and district colleagues to achieve
significant gains in student
achievement as well as build the organizational capacity required to sustain these results.
Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that charter schools are making
significant gains in narrowing the
achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide
in many urban districts and across subjects.
All four studies demonstrated positive and
significant gains in academic
achievement and social skills for students involved
in the RTL program as compared to students not receiving instruction
in the RTL model.
Students also demonstrated
significant gains in mathematics
achievement, even when math was not the focus of the program.
Whether using the tools to provide one - on - one assistance or planned professional development for small and large groups, the result will be the same:
significant gains in student
achievement.»
«Promoters of «No Child Left Behind» and similar test - driven schemes
in many states promised
significant gains in overall academic
achievement.
Another ambitious investigation, conducted by the National Center for Educational
Achievement (2009), sent teams of researchers to 26 public schools
in five states that had a high percentage of low - income students, and whose students had made
significant gains on math and science exams
in a three - year period.
Because of hard - edged accountability policies, low - income and minority students saw
significant achievement gains in the late 1990s and early 2000s.