Sentences with phrase «student information tracking»

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Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

They allege that student loan servicers didn't give them vital information about PSLF, assuring them that they were on track for loan forgiveness when they actually weren't.

«The NetNutrition program, which provides students with comprehensive nutrition information on menu items in the dining courts, can be used to track a student's personal nutrition goals,» Dining Services says.

In the week of 22 August 2011, Wireless Generation, [154] a subsidiary of News Corporation, lost a no - bid contract with New York State to build an information system, for tracking student performance as a consequence of the News International phone hacking scandal.

Just the folks we need to produce software to track personal student information, eh?

Most of the information was obtained because Rochester City School District joined a national registry tracking where students go to college and whether they graduate.

Working with the bright students at Columbia Law School will give these municipal leaders the necessary information to track down banks and ensure these properties are being maintained.»

The DOE does not track the immigration status of students and will not release any student information unless required by law.

Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others bolster students» abilities to stay on task, think more fluidly and mentally track and juggle information.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

Proponents say there are great advantages too, such as being able to track every lesson and assignment a student embarks on, and then using that information to tailor each child's education to their needs.

According to the report, most large - scale data systems that include information on undergraduate students are built to track students in a pipeline model, focusing primarily on full - time or first - time students.

Charlie, Laurie, and her parents (George Hamilton, in one of his least tanned performances, and Dyan Cannon) go to Mexico, while Tommy tracks Charlie back to his dorm in Bethesda, where he tries to torture information out of his fellow pre-med students Ernie (David Spade, surprisingly not the actor most detached from his surroundings in the movie) and Steve (Todd Louiso), using such brutal tactics as whipping them with a wet towel and banging the business ends of two stethoscopes together while they listen.

Guided by Ronald Ferguson's strategies for parent involvement, UA conducted an initial parent survey, took steps to ensure that parents understood the state requirements for their students, and reviewed with them assessment information that tracked each child's progress and work.

Science and environmental educators have long promoted the use of student versions of the same tools scientists employ, such as temperature probes connected to laptops, global - positioning and geographic - information systems to track species, digital cameras and microscopes, and statistical software to analyze data.

Ultimately, state leaders need to insist on a high - quality assessment that gives teachers and parents the information they need to know about whether students are on track for success, and how instruction needs to improve.

Importantly, in 1998, the Ohio Board of Regents began tracking the educational progress of entering students at its 45 public colleges, based on information from applications, college transcripts, and standardized tests.

Education guru John Hattie captures this idea in his phrase «know thy impact,» an exhortation for teachers to track how much their students learn, and then use that information to inform their future practice.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

Funding has been obtained from NSF to support a stable cohort of such students whose duties involve the training of a new generation of graduate researchers to work in the museum; the presentation of information on ongoing research to museum educators and interested parents; the tracking of participation by children and families in such research initiatives.

The learning management system and the digital content, curriculum, and grading are provided by Spark Education (formerly iGo), and PowerSchool tracks student information.

In particular, students infer and interpret key information about the characters from their introductions into the play, before tracking how their characters develop through close analysis of key quotations.

You might appoint a «hurricane tracking team» or you might assign individual students or small groups to track some of the following sites for hurricane information.

[v] Information on race is not collected on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), nor is it included in the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) which tracks outstanding debt and repayments.

A web - based course would typically include course information, timetable, notice board, curriculum map, teaching materials like articles, slides, and handouts, communication through discussion boards and email, summative and formative assessments, student management tools like statistics, records, and student tracking, and also links to external and internal websites that are very useful.

Once the information is available to track student progress from one year to the next, one can identify the classrooms in which the most, and least, learning is taking place.

Another way to track projects is to require students to create their own online space, where they record notes and project information.

It is vital students, parents and educators receive reliable and valid information on student achievement of standards, student growth, and whether students are on - track to being college and career ready regardless of what state they reside in.

For both accelerated and struggling students, it's worth building on success, improving our ability to track the progress of individual students, and providing better information to families about educational options.

Chicago — Two years ago, Louisiana's statewide special - education district decided to install a computerized system for tracking and managing information on some 2,400 handicapped students in state - operated residential facilities.

A results - based accountability system would allow special education teachers and administrators to spend more time tracking each student's progress (and using that information to generate even more progress) and less time holding meetings and completing paperwork.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

In particular, students infer and interpret key information about the characters from their introductions into the play, before tracking how their characters develop through close analysis of their key actions and quotations.

«Some of the best teaching happens when we get off track and «hook» students with interesting titbits of information, I have a wealth of experiences from this trip to share with students.

To do this effectively, states must create an information system that allows them to track individual student progress, then hold students, teachers, schools, and districts to account.

She does nt have to think twice about her favorite technology innovation: a software program that tracks student attendance, disciplinary infractions, bus incidents, and other pieces of student - related information in schools across the Cincinnati district.

The district is also modifying it to track disciplinary information, so eventually it will really be our one - stop - shop for student data.

Researchers found that social media use varied when students were using it specifically for academic purposes like sharing course information with peers or tracking down academic information.

The content in data rooms varies; some schools go as far as listing students» names and tracking individual progress — these data rooms are not open to the public — while others are more general; they show information about schools and grades, and they are accessible to staff and the public.

The ways of understanding teacher quality are changing as information systems allow states and districts to track educators and their students over time.

«Manually tracked information does not allow for accurate reporting on money received and can also be difficult to track student grants or pupil premium reductions for things such as trips,» Jarvis said.

CEP is designed to ensure access to school meals by students from low - income families and simplify administration of the school meal programs by eliminating the use of applications to collect family income information and the need to track children by eligibility category in the lunchroom.

There's also talk by states» rights advocates of no longer requiring annual testing by states, which would deny parents and educators valuable information about whether students are on track, reduce the ability to measure and improve teacher quality, and make it harder for administrators to know how schools are doing and when they need to intervene.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

Assigning paper - based quizzes ensures that almost all of the information on student mastery will be lost, while the software produced by a dozen or more firms is able to quickly read the results from electronically administered tests into an evolving portfolio of data that tracks student learning.

Although well - known for many years, these ideas have not been put to a careful empirical test, in part because few surveys of students contain detailed contextual information about their school community and track the students into adulthood.

Most of the information was obtained because Rochester City School District joined a national registry tracking where students go to college and whether they graduate.

ACT information can be a valuable tool in admissions and orientation, course sectioning and student placement, allocation of financial aid and scholarships, advanced placement and credit by examination, academic advising, student retention and tracking, and other student personnel services.

Allows for an unlimited number of user - defined fields to track any information for students, parents or teachers.

The school doesn't keep track of the exact number of students considered to be economically disadvantaged, nor does the state education department demand charter schools keep track of that information.