Sentences with phrase «students testing at»

Since 2013, the percent of students testing at mastery level and above has increased two percentage points.

In this case, the New Britain teacher saw a 15 percent increase in the number of students testing at goal, the Hamden teacher had a 5 percent increase and the Fairfield teacher saw a slight decline.

Adamowski's and his supporters claim that during his years in Hartford, the percent of students testing at or above the proficient level went up 12.3 (Column 4: 60.1 — 47.8 percent) and that there was a 9.1 percent increase in number who scored at or above goal (Column 5: 31.8 - 22.7 percent).

Students testing at the cusp of being able to pass the SBAC in April were invited to the week - long intervention.

But today three quarters of kids are graduating on time and the percentage of students testing at grade level has gone up by 77 %.

The same year, Match ranked 18th in English out of 338 Massachusetts high schools; 32 percent of students tested at the advanced level.

By the end of post-secondary education, only two percent of students tested at genius level.

States aren't providing clear guidance to educators on when, what, and for whom to use test accommodations, according to a study by the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joan Herman, a senior research scientist at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at the University of California - Los Angeles, says while it remains to be seen just how helpful the new tests will be, she thinks they are an improvement because they ask students to use what they know, not just regurgitate information.

Last year, after seven years under González, 60 percent of its students tested at or above grade level in math and 30 percent in English.

Collaborative member and Director of Teacher Professional Development at WestEd Aida Walqui, along with Margaret Heritage, the Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert Linquanti, Project Director for English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support and Senior Researcher for the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, lay the groundwork for continuing the progress teachers have made with English language learner (ELL) students in their new book English Language Learners and the New Standards: Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom.

The number and percent of students tested at a school, district, or state who attained each proficiency level at each grade level.

But only 39 percent of New Jersey students test at or above proficient on eigth grade reading.

Many students test at the high end of a range of English or math proficiency while still not quite crossing the threshold to the next level.

The Pennsylvania study (Lance & Schwarz, 2012) found that while 1.6 % fewer students tested at the Below Basic level in reading when they had full - time librarians than those who did not, the difference was even greater for Black students (5.5 %), Latino students (5.2 %), and students with disabilities (4.6 %).

Not exact matches

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

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.

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

Their conclusion: «In healthy young students, caffeine improves memory performance and sensorimotor speed, whereas SPRINT does not affect the cognitive performance at the dose tested.»

Thirty years ago, when she was a medical student helping to create in - vitro fertilization babies at Toronto's East General Hospital, and never thought she'd be asked whether or not we should eat hamburgers made in test tubes.

«One study looked at students in New York and showed that those who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did 14 % better on IQ tests than the students who ate lunches with these additives.»

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

As a psychology student at Harvard, he developed the lie detector test but failed to win acceptance for it.

Thuy - vy Nguyen, a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, and her team designed four experiments to test how solitude affected emotional states.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

The researchers worked with the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M to test the donation responses of alums who were solicited for money during a regular direct - mail fundraising campaign.

Project Wing most recently made headlines in September for flying Chipotle burritos to students at Virginia Tech to test how a drone delivery program might work.

«The Governor signed a law this year that provides an abundance of exemptions and flexibility for testing for all students at MSDHS this year,» said communications director John Tupps in a statement.

The testing requirements affect roughly 1,500 students at the school, about half of the student body.

The week reaches an apex at the Pitch Competition where students put their novel ideas to the test.

Elon Musk built a test track of his own at SpaceX, allowing students to offer up improvements and play with the plans.

Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing that day.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

But at the beginning of each school year, each student will submit to a scale and a BMI test.

The company believes that «delivering a high level of innovation in convenience packaging is something that students are particularly adept at, offering invaluable disruptive insight to tried and tested methods».

Even when other students began to tire of the assignment — to make a cookie to present at Bakery Day, an opportunity at the end of term where students showcase signature items — Boran kept asking (and testing) a zillion «what ifs.»

We are delighted to be working with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to offer a free heart test for students at Manchester Metropolitan University aged between 14 and 35.

At Navy, the skill position players still have to undergo fitness tests each semester like all other students, but the linemen are allowed to do a bike test instead.

He made sure that prom tickets were free for students who passed state tests, hosted banquets for honor roll students with free food and T - shirts, and filled the seats at Back to School Nights.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

It's a test that is published by the Educational Records Bureau that is utilized to compare students apply to independent schools at the Sixth Grade level, the Middle School level, and the High School level.

The program must require the testing of a statistically significant number of students multiple times throughout the year at approximately 30 percent of high schools that participate in athletic competitions sponsored by the League.

And, in order to prevent the students from deliberately throwing the test (in order to «get back» at unpopular teachers) they had to have skin in the game, as well — thus the «no pass — no promote» rule.