Sentences with phrase «significantly higher achievement levels»

Our analysis showed that states that reward schools for success and sanction schools that are failing had significantly higher achievement levels than states without these incentives.

«Incremental learners» showed significantly higher achievement levels than «entity theory» learners over the years they were studied by Dweck.

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At fifteen, the kids of troubled marriages had significantly higher levels of truancy, depression, peer rejection, low school achievement, behavior problems, anger and aggression.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

Those in the upper right - hand corner — North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Texas, Massachusetts, and Virginia — have enjoyed both significantly higher levels of math achievement and higher rates of economic growth.

Of course, as with so many other arenas, America finds itself hard put to keep up with some other countries» success at significantly raising the levels of academic achievement on the part of the high school graduate.

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

Those students who were taught using a differentiated curriculum that supplemented the textbook curriculum and were placed in various groups according to their performance level demonstrated significantly higher achievement on the post-test than did high - performing students who were taught using the textbook curriculum and whole - class instruction.

The study identified 13 best practices across three dimensions of teacher behaviors and strategies which are correlated to significantly higher levels of student achievement in an online learning environment.

«This year's results reveal noteworthy achievement gains in many districts...» our neediest students continue to perform significantly worse than their wealthier peers, especially at the high school level.

Furthermore, Bryk & Schneider (2003) found that when school trust levels were high, so was student achievement and inversely weak levels of trust was significantly linked to poor academic performance.

The award honors public and private elementary, middle, and high schools based on their overall academic excellence or for their progress toward significantly improving student academic achievement levels.

CTAC research found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

Although we do not include a table reporting all correlations, we found SES to be significantly (and unsurprisingly) related to student achievement — a possible explanation for the high level of influence parents and students apparently exercise in schools in the higher quintiles of performance, which generally serve higher SES students.

That is, more precisely and as indicated in the actual study, SLOs were «not significantly correlated with a teacher's value - added student test scores;» hence, «a teacher is no more likely to meet his or her SLO targets if [his / her] students have higher levels of achievement [over time].»

In support of this hypothesis, high levels of family achievement orientation (e.g., the emphasis a family places on achievement and competition), overly controlling, protective, and overly absent parenting styles have been found to significantly predict cognitions of impostor phenomenon in both predominately White college and adult samples (e.g., King and Cooley 1995; Li et al. 2014; Want and Kleitman 2006).