Sentences with phrase «term gains in achievement»

Despite a half - century of data and research showing that retention does not result in long - term gains in achievement, schools continue to retain students.

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Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

By the time one obtains the doctorate, one has learned to measure one's achievement in terms of contributing to the discipline and gaining recognition within it.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

Too much of the assistance that was provided through the law was spread too thinly to have the kind of impact to help schools build the capacity that they needed to improve instruction and see long - term gains in student achievement.

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

Students made short - term gains in math and reading achievement, were better prepared for high school, and took fewer remedial courses once there.

Implicit in the theory of action underlying test - based accountability is the link between achievement gains and improvements in long - term outcomes.

In simplest terms, we compare average student achievement gains in the same school under different principalIn simplest terms, we compare average student achievement gains in the same school under different principalin the same school under different principals.

Extra gains associated with long - term attendance in small classes (in the early grades) appeared not only for tests of measured achievement, but also for other measures of success in education;

They say that employees that learn on a gamified Learning Management System will not be truly engaged, at least not in the long term, because they are only working hard to gain badges, points and achievements — and as soon as the novelty wears off, so will their engagement and good work ethic.

• Dynarski shows that class size reduction in the Tennesee Project STAR experiment led to short - term achievement gains and long - run attainment gains.

But I don't agree that short - term achievement gains should be put in the «bad information» bucket.

One way to examine this is to see whether children with different initial achievement levels gained from tracking differentially in terms of the difficulty of the material that they learned.

However, voucher students began to show signs of improvement by their fourth year in a private school, and in that year there was no statistically significant difference between them and their public - school peers in terms of total achievement gains from baseline.

And while many parents want to avoid a «summer slide,» a term to describe the tendency for students, especially those from low - income families, to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year, many experts say it's important to keep in mind that summers don't have to be packed with worksheets and math camps for kids to keep their brains active and learning.

Direct - to - student programs and changes in instructional practices have been linked to long - term gains in academic performance and reductions in achievement gaps on the basis of race / ethnicity, gender, and being the first in one's family to go to college.

In terms of achievement impacts, our findings suggest non-trivial gains in student achievement are attainable simply by choosing more effective curriculum materialIn terms of achievement impacts, our findings suggest non-trivial gains in student achievement are attainable simply by choosing more effective curriculum materialin student achievement are attainable simply by choosing more effective curriculum materials.

In a more recent, longitudinal study on schools implementing special strategies for educating disadvantaged children, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that the schools demonstrating the greatest achievement gains worked hard at both initial implementation and long - term maintenance of an innovation.

Therefore, the final component for reflection is student achievement gains — in the short - term as well as throughout the school year.

As Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al show, a bunch of charter schools with large achievement test gains, including Boston «no - excuses» schools, Harlem Promise Academy, and KIPP, have produced little or nothing in terms of high school graduation and college - attendance rates.

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

The results give us reason to hope, though, from slightly narrowing achievement gaps to consistent reading performance and long - term gains in math.

Looking at long - term trends from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, gains were seen in some areas but the achievement gap was stuck.

Studies in which achievement gains were greater with manipulatives instruction tended to be taught by university researchers or teachers with long - term training in the materials.

Switch - or die trying does have interesting mechanics which are integrated well with puzzles and a gorgeous art style, along with some replayability in terms of having achievements to gain the different star tears (beating the course time and collecting ink drops).

Those years were years of Cold War, and the US wanted to gain the supremacy over the rest of the world, even in terms of scientific discoveries, literary achievements and of course new cultural ideas.

This doesn't mean that every achievement has to be written in terms of dollars gained or saved.