Instead of spending hours grading your students» work, you can spend 15 minutes of class time having
students grade each other.
Not exact matches
He started to imagine designing software that could automatically
grade student assignments to provide instant feedback, as well as perform
other tasks.
Best for
students in grades six through twelve Students will examine two public laws and other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as i
students in
grades six through twelve
Students will examine two public laws and other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as i
Students will examine two public laws and
other primary resources related to the Bracero worker program and apply their knowledge to evaluate whether the program was carried out as intended.
◾ The average GPA for
students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a
grade lower than that of
other students.»
Turriff and
other TLC personnel are actively involved in the NACD - sponsored «You Be The Chemist» competition for
students in fifth through eighth
grades.
The two - school district has just received two brand new salad bars, one sized for k - 6
students, the
other for
grades 7 - 12, and today is their big debut.
Many
students were obsessed with
grades and were frustrated that the
grading scale was inconsistent with
other area schools.
In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their
student's achievement as mainly measured by
grades and test scores — the need to score better than
others in order to succeed.
Students in 4th - 6th
grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and
other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.
We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider
other ways to honor their top
students — ways that rely less on a
grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.
Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased
student responsibility (often the
grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).
In 6th - 8th
grade,
students are welcome to join any of the co-ed sports teams, such as basketball or volleyball, which compete against
other local independent and Waldorf schools in the Bay Area.
Even though almost every
student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below
grade level, they are still a step above
other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth
grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP
students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth -
grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.
The Admission Committee looks at the applicant in the context of
students currently attending and the
other candidates who would like to join the same
grade.
«I look at the teachers who have helped show me that it's not all about
grades,» she says, «and I'd like to be that kind of influence on
other students.»
Still, some
students stand out more than
others, getting better
grades and grasping material more deeply.
The project provides design process opportunities for
students in all
grades to use creativity and inventive thinking to build prototypes, explore questions, experience failure and successes and bounce ideas off each
other.
Dive in with Shedd Aquarium and
other Chicago - area 6th - through 12th -
grade students to explore local ecosystems while earning service - learning hours!
Catalfo, a math whiz who passed the exam in seventh
grade, found the flaw as he was reviewing the test in order to tutor
other students.
Dr. King, the state commissioner, said the disturbing nature of these records was part of the reason he and
other state education officials recently recommended a ban starting next school year on the longstanding practice of teachers»
grading their own
students» tests and would urge districts to improve monitoring on test days.
Children are admitted to Success's prekindergarten program through a lottery — the same way that
students enter
other grades — and
students in the prekindergarten are then guaranteed a spot in kindergarten at Success.
She gives the example of a school with five fifth
grade classes, where
students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the
other four.
The next day, Josiah, who has a learning disability, reported that he'd been teased by
other students who had seen his failing
grade.
If you do anything
other than «teach» (i.e.
grading, reading
student work, etc.) you don't get paid even minimum wage.
Fourteen percent of the high school
students transferred to
other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a
grade of C or lower on its School Progress Report.
One was a fourth
grade student at West Road Intermediate School, the
other an eighth
grade student at LaGrange Middle School.
Under «mayoral control» of the city's school system, only Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to dump Chancellor Carmen Fariña over the scandalous graduation of a high school
student who all but begged to fail and
other instances of
grade - fixing.
Being a responsible
student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good
grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or
other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
The journal is designed to provide
students from
grades 7 to 12 with an opportunity to communicate their school - based science and technology experiences with
other students across the province of Ontario and perhaps even the country, as well as an opportunity to test their writing skills and their artwork.
The University of Arkansas programs begin training graduate
students even before school starts by requiring them, if they are receiving financial support from the department, to participate in a 1 - week seminar on organizing presentations,
grading, and
other professional issues.
Students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules — say, night owls taking early morning courses — received lower
grades due to «social jet lag,» a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or
other demands.
For example, if you figured out the average height of
students in a classroom, that statistic could help you predict the average height of
students in
other classrooms of the same
grade at the same school.
In «holistic review,» the approach taken by UT, admissions officials look «not only at
grades but also at what barriers
students have overcome, whether they have had research opportunity and experience, whether they have evidenced persistence or determination in
other parts of their lives, and many more factors,» she said.
The researchers used data from a five - year study that examined the negative consequences of
students changing schools for reasons
other than
grade promotion and the impact of an outreach program designed to enhance relationships between families and school personnel.
Although their brain - controlled drone certainly was innovative enough to earn a good
grade, Magbagbeola, Kinn and the
other students on their project team actually had goals outside the classroom in mind when designing the drone.
Students (
grades 5 - 8) will gain an understanding and acceptance of self and
others, gain confidence, reduce stress, manage emotions, and connect with one another.
From 8 to 5:30 each day you can find me sitting at a table with 7
other people
grading essay after essay and chuckling at the variety of ways high school
students will attempt to spell the word «coup d'état».
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth -
grade students, and places them on a on a desert island where they are forced to fight each
other to death or all of them will be killed.
A seventh
grade student takes his homework assignment to make a difference in the world seriously and decides to start a campaign to Pay It Forward by doing for
others what they can't do for themselves.
Two
other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of
students within a
grade and subject in a school.
At
other times, they used data on
students» class rank, college
grades, or
other measures of
student performance.
The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and
other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making
student progress toward the next
grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.
And in the
other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th
grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.
The academy, with 150 freshmen, will share a building with two
other Renaissance 2010 schools on the former Austin High School campus on the city's West Side, adding a
grade level and an additional 150
students per year until it reaches a maximum of 600.
On the
other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering
students» advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing
grade levels.
«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the
other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping
students in
grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across
grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.
Among
other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for
students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second -
grade social studies standards on the local community context.
The
other purpose for feedback is to assign a score to
student work, give it a
grade.
First, they compare the 10th -
grade test scores of
students with similar 8th -
grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and
others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.
Students at each
grade level are scheduled together as a cohort to take a core set of academic classes and a technical class related to the theme of the academy (e.g., biotechnology, business, electronics, engineering, health, information technology, media and communications, among many
others).