Sentences with phrase «students performed at that level»

But in the adult group, the gains were reversed — to the point that college students performed at the level of the kindergarteners on two of the three tasks — suggesting the «use it or lose it» effect.

Only 4 % of black students performed at that level, despite their 15 % share of the total participant pool.

Whereas only 32 percent of U.S. 8th graders are proficient in math, 50 percent of Canadian students and nearly 60 percent of Korean and Finnish students perform at that level.

Students performing at this level have clearly demonstrated the ability to accomplish the communicative purpose of their writing.

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Not exact matches

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

As a student of personal development himself, he made it a priority to provide constant education and training so his people could perform at the top levels.

All educational programs are rigorous and demand that each student thinks, learns, and performs at the highest possible level.

They often actually perform at grade level because they are that bright they are performing at the domain that we would expect to see a student.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 %.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

An English learner in the El Paso metropolitan area, for example is nearly twice as likely to be reclassified by the end of seventh grade compared to a student performing at the same level in the Rio Grande Valley.

The Shanghai students not only outperformed the rest of the world but also had the largest percentage of test - takers performing at the highest level.

As for the continuing low presence of Indian students pursuing U.S. undergraduate degrees, «[t] op - performing Indian students are well - served at the undergraduate level by the country's network of elite technology institutes,» so there is little need or desire to send students abroad.

«I'll leave it to the politicians to decide how alarmed we should be that only 2 % of our students are performing at an advanced level,» says Buckley.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Only 50 percent of students awarded As and 11 percent of those with Bs performed at an A or B level on the corresponding section of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

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.

The tests are designed to monitor if there is any change in how students perform at national level over time, which will provide valuable additional information for the awarding GCSE grades.

International studies indicate that the top 10 per cent of our Year 8 students now perform at about the same level in mathematics as the top 50 per cent of students in Singapore, Korea and Chinese Taipei.

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

Few students in the DC study were performing even near the 50th percentile at baseline and the percentile scores varied dramatically by grade level, a crucial factor that the DC researchers accounted for in their conversions but the CAP commentators did not.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

The most controversial reform implemented under Driscoll's watch was requiring that students perform at a certain level on the state's 10th grade test in order to graduate.

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A holistic rubric breaks an assignment down into general levels at which a student can perform, assigning an overall grade for each level.

In Australia four out of five students (80 per cent), performed at Level 2 or higher: 15 per cent achieved Level 4 proficiency; 34 per cent achieved Level 3; and 31 per cent of students were at Level 2.

Top performing students, those proficient at Level 4 (scoring equal to or higher than 640 points), «can successfully carry out complicated problem solving tasks with high collaboration complexity.

Traditionally, the state funds a student at a constant level, regardless of whether the student performs well or even completes the course.

According to this second theory, students are more engaged, behave more appropriately, and perform at a higher level when taught by one who shares their gender.

Greene and McGee reported that in 17 states they were unable to find a single district that performed at levels comparable to those reached by students in the world's leading countries.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

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.

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

Her team there had used data aggressively to shape instruction, and by the end of the year, students were performing on average at an 8th - grade level.

The study found that if a school had 25 percent more students performing at a proficient level in math and reading, the school was rated a half grade higher by parents.

Within the United States, Massachusetts is again the leader, with 43 percent of 8th - grade students performing at the NAEP proficient level in reading.

Your student might not be able to perform at the same academic or conceptual level as your other students, but he can learn many of the same skills if you modify your approach to instruction.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

In 1992, students in Texas were performing at the same level as the students in the nation.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Based on its own tests and standards, the state claimed in 2009 that over 90 percent of its 4th - grade students were proficient in math, whereas NAEP tests revealed that only 28 percent were performing at a proficient level.

While this sounds both noble and egalitarian, it in fact expects those schools that had a lower percentage of students scoring at the proficient level in 2002 to make more rapid progress over the ensuing years than those with higher - performing students.

Shanghai students perform at a higher level, however, with 55 percent of young people proficient in reading.

Los Altos already ranked among the best - performing districts in the state, but it had set itself a goal of improving individual achievement, and «capturing data at a granular level» on each student was proving difficult, Goines told me.

For example, 58 percent of Korean students and 56 percent of Finnish students performed at or above a proficient level.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.