Sentences with phrase «teacher attendance rates»

In the future, the state plans to add school finance details, FAFSA completion rates, and teacher attendance rates to the site.

States should also provide information that might bear on the ability of the school to do a good job - for example, the percentages of teachers with degrees in the subject they are teaching and teacher attendance rates.

Not exact matches

Teachers visiting as part of a field trip are charged a group rate or admitted for free based on the attendance policies of their registered trip.

(Indicators could include graduation rates, student attendance, suspension rates and parent, family and teacher engagement.)

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

New Mexico's system also drew fire for its use of teacher attendance as an additional performance measure, another step that widened the spread of ratings among teachers.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Their teachers have fewer credentials, less experience, lower value - added scores, lower salaries, and worse attendance rates.

A growing body of literature suggests that outcomes such as test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are affected by the demographic match between teachers and students.

According to surveys conducted by the Attleboro Public Schools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teachers.

As we struggle with how to improve student outcomes, we need to triangulate Level 1 «satellite» data — test scores, D / F rates, attendance rates — with Level 2 «map» data — reading inventories, teacher - created common assessments, student surveys — and Level 3 «street» data, which can only be gathered through listening and close observation.

Data related to school and student demographics (for example, attendance, graduation rate, race / ethnicity, class, gender, level of teaching experience, level of teachers» education)

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

I think teachers play a key role in increasing attendance and if they're able to improve the teachers, this will definitely have a direct correlation on attendance rates.

For years, the superintendent of the 2,500 - student Calhoun County schools has been charged outrageous rates for Internet service so slow his teachers couldn't get online to take attendance.

The results: a school attendance rate significantly higher than similar programs nationally, improved communications with parents, and a remarkable collaboration with school teachers that could prove a model for out - of - school - time programs.

Schools, teachers, and administrators are evaluated based on a series of performance indicators, including staff and student attendance, student performance on assessment tests, graduation and remediation rates, and the amount of contact with...

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

The list ranged from low attendance rates and curriculum changes, to behavioral problems, and student teacher relations.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

Some of those factors include student attendance, teacher working conditions, student discipline such as suspensions, and rate of English fluency for non-native English speaking students.

Summary: The Georgia Department of Education now requires schools to collect surveys from parents, students and teachers, and to consider attendance rates and discipline records in new ratings.

The analysis showed that higher teacher reports of the presence of goals, processes, and supports believed necessary for school success were not generally linked to higher rates of reading proficiency, math proficiency, or attendance rates.

Research shows that teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, increasing high school completion and college attendance rates for these students.

Instead, the two sides agreed to evaluate teachers with such data as raw state test scores, district assessments, high school exit exams and rates of attendance, graduation, suspensions and course completion.

The 20,914 resulting home visits have led to many positive results, according to the project's Sacramento - area director Lisa Levasseur, including not only better communication, trust and support between families and teachers but also increases in student attendance rates and test scores, and decreases in suspension and expulsion rates.

Our research - based processes improve the five key indicators of school performance: fewer discipline referrals, improved attendance, higher student achievement, lower dropout rates, and higher teacher satisfaction.

The attendance rate is increasing, chronic absences are down, and even teacher attendance increased from 69 percent to 79 percent.

And among the stellar department articles is a special focus on improving attendance rates — for both students and teachers — as well as a new department: Speaking Up.

What evidence do you have of student achievement, attendance, parental involvement, student behaviors, teacher retainment, course selections, graduation rate, instructional practices, teacher collaboration, polices and procedures that are effective, overall satisfaction with your school and other factors that can support the frame for continuous improvement?

Findings in the existing literature of effects of school size show small schools advantage on curricular diversity, academic achievement, daily attendance rates, teacher and student morale, student and parent participation, etc..

The perfect evaluation system doesn't exist yet, but we do have access to measures of teacher performance that are far better than seniority: teacher ratings, classroom management, teacher attendance, specific licensure, peer or principal review, value - added student data.

These teams took on challenges including increasing school attendance rates, building better relationships between teachers and students, and improving the ways students are taught, as well as the kinds of things they are learning.

Teachers and administrators at each school will join forces to share professional development and mentoring, including access to ASU faculty, a self - paced digital curriculum for students, and other resources in an effort to boost student achievement, graduation rates and college attendance.

• Only 75 percent of LAUSD teachers have a strong attendance rate (defined as attending work at least 96 percent of the time), leading the district to spend $ 15 million it can ill afford to lose paying for substitute teachers.

But as more teachers have signed on to the Carnegie program at KAPPA International, attendance and four - year - graduation rates have gone up.

Teacher home visits are said to result in increased rates of attendance and test scores as well as decreased rates of vandalism and suspension / expulsion rates.

The school environment category is based on attendance rates and on the results of questionnaires completed by parents, pupils and teachers.

Berry's research suggests that such «teacher - powered» schools decrease discipline issues and safety concerns, and increase graduation rates and college attendance for students.

Furthermore, education can't have a simple win / loss record due to its complexity: it should include academic measures, attendance and turnover rates of students and teachers, community involvement, and more.

The district has implemented several key initiatives to successfully reduce their chronic absence rates including their innovative use of Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) as dedicated attendance liaisons.

However, two careful, large - scale studies, reviewed in detail below, suggest that despite the lack of persistence of value - added on future test scores, one year of experience with a high - value - added teacher predicts higher rates of college attendance and adult earnings, as well as other important outcomes.

But Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, questioned whether there were other factors that might explain the higher graduation rate in the small schools, like fewer special education students or better attendance records for those entering the small schools, since attendance rates have been shown to be an indicator of on - time graduation.

Student attendance and teacher retention rates are high.

RAND advises districts running voluntary summer programs to use historical data on no - show and attendance rates when deciding matters like how many teachers to hire and how much space is needed.

A three - year district profile that includes student test scores, teacher evaluation data, dropout rates, minority college attendance rates, demographics in Advanced Placement / IB classes, and other key indicators of district performance.

If the default is set to «present,» attendance rates could appear artificially high when teachers fail to submit regular reports.»

It looks at such data as standardized test scores; attendance; credit accumulation; graduation rates; results from Regents exams; and survey data from students, parents, and teachers.

The Australian Early Development Index is an adaption of the Canadian Early Development Instrument.6, 7 It has been the subject of numerous reliability and validity studies.8 — 13 Studies have also shown teacher ratings on the questionnaire to be more reliable and consistent than parent ratings, 11,14 and that these ratings predict later educational outcomes.8, 15 In addition to the developmental data, the AEDI census also provides information on any special needs the child might have, the child's care and educational arrangements prior to enrolling at school as well as demographic data, attendance and geographical information about where the child lives.