Sentences with phrase «student reading performance»

In another line of research, Palincsar and Brown (e.g., Palincsar & Brown, 1986) successfully tested and replicated reciprocal teaching, a strategy to improve student reading performance.

In individual case studies and the cross-case analysis, we are looking for patterns of resource allocation, between - class arrangements, and schoolwide structures that contribute to high levels of student reading performance.

For example, we were able to add detail, relevant to reading programs and student reading performance, to earlier findings on systematic evaluation, home - school connections, building collaboration, student engagement, and teacher scaffolding.

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China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

January 15: Take in free musical performances by El Sistema and the World Percussion Ensemble, as well as readings by winners of the town's student essay contest at the One Somerville Annual Martin Luther King, Jr..

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

The SUNY Charter Institute, the regulations read, «acknowledges that many schools and education corporations it oversees that have demonstrated strong student performance have had difficulty hiring teachers certified in accordance with the requirements of the regulations of the commissioner of education.»

Founder of Kwik Learning and a widely recognized world expert in speed - reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning, Jim has served as the mental coach to students, seniors, entrepreneurs, and educators, and as advisor to many of the world's leading CEOs and celebrities.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

Greater focus on raising student performance on math and reading standardized tests may also lead schools to cut field trips.

Eight assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year - olds.

The performance of students attending small schools has been recorded as between 11 per cent and 34 per cent higher when compared to children in overcrowded schools; 15 per cent higher in mathematics scores and 4 per cent to 9 per cent higher points in reading scores.

Students are then told they will be participating in a performance task in which they will read about the debate over the Internet's effects on young people's reading and write an argumentative essay taking a stand on the issue.

Releasing the ACER report, PIRLS 2016: Reporting Australia's results, ACER Deputy CEO (Research) Dr Sue Thomson said while the results indicate positive changes in Australian students» average reading performance since 2011, they also highlight the existence of groups of students for whom reading comprehension remains an area of great difficulty.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

Student performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving profiStudent performance measures include average student achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving profistudent achievement on reading and math exams, along with median proficiency and the percentage of students achieving proficiency.

These goals were tied to the New York City accountability system and were mainly determined by student performance on state math and reading exams.

The authors justify their omission of half of the available evidence by claiming that math performance is a better measure of school performance than reading, since students likely get nearly all of their math instruction in school but much of their reading instruction at home.

Retaining students based on reading proficiency can produce large improvements in academic performance when compared to grade - level peers.

NCLB asks the nation to define what all students should know and be able to do in reading and math, and then measures progress toward these performance standards.

The OECD says results from the PISA collaborative problem - solving assessment show only 9 per cent of the differences in students» scores (after accounting for their performance in the three core domains of science, reading and mathematics), is observed between schools.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

O'Brien discusses the results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in regard to student performance in digital reading, navigation, and computer use — and what these results mean for educators in the United Student Assessment (PISA) in regard to student performance in digital reading, navigation, and computer use — and what these results mean for educators in the United student performance in digital reading, navigation, and computer use — and what these results mean for educators in the United States.

Over half of poor and minority students have reading and math skills far below grade level, whether measured by the tough performance standards of the NAEP or by the standards of the various states.

The PISA 2015 test results have brought more bad news for Australia's education system with student performances in scientific, reading and mathematical literacy all in «absolute decline».

Seeing a performance ensures that the requirement to study a whole play is met, even if the students have not read every word of the play.

Fifth - grade lead teacher Joshua White looks at student performance on each «strand» of standards in reading, writing, and math, both within his own class and across the grade.

The GRC analysis also differs from those of Hanushek et al. in that the latter focus on students performing at the advanced or proficient level, while we focused on the average student performance in both math and reading.

This teacher ability to affect student character skills in not related to their ability to improve math and reading test performance.

Third - grade students were not affected, and 6th - grade students were negatively affected by the policy in their performance on the ITBS reading test.

So when I recently learned that PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment, a worldwide evaluation of 15 - year - old school pupils» scholastic performance — and one of the main sources of concern over the state of reading, math, and science education in the US) had released an overview of performance in digital reading, navigation and computer use in 2009, I was excited.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

Using data on 2,600 students the study shows no statistically significant impact on performance in math, science, language, reading or social studies.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

That information is obtained by comparing student performance on NAEP math and reading tests with the performance of students from across the world on similar examinations.

The state's educators were divided into three groups based on the availability of student - performance measures; these include state tests, external and internal assessments in subjects outside of math / reading, and «growth goals» based on professional standards and position responsibilities.

A Brookings Institution study released in September 2002 concluded that student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than that of district schools on state tests in reading and math.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are ranked by the trend, not the absolute level, of their students» performance on the standardized reading and math tests.

Because Klein's educational record is strong, all those interested in narrowing the tragic education - performance gap between our well - off and our poor students should read this book.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

In this paper, we use an extensive student - level data set to evaluate the impact of charter schools in North Carolina on the math and reading performance of students in grades 4 through 8.

If teachers want students to learn plays, it is much better for them to take students to a live theater performance than to have them read the material or watch a movie.

Several rigorous studies have confirmed that many KIPP middle schools have large, positive impacts on student performance on math and reading tests.

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.