Sentences with phrase «test score boosting»

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Not only did eating chocolate immediately boost participants» test scores, the study revealed that eating small amounts of chocolate daily boosted cognitive performance over a long period of time.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get those students to college and raise their future wages than were the much celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get their students to college and raise their future wages than were the much - celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Republican mayoral contender Joe Lhota wants to give teachers a pay boost for everything from improving kids» test scores to teaching in low - performing schools.

They can't handle those kids, have no answers and cherrypick the most motivated families to boost test scores.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has cited decreases in chronic absenteeism, and boosts in state test scores as evidence of their success.

Parents, community leaders and former participants of after - school programs maintained that such initiatives can help improve low - performing schools, boost test scores and improve work habits.

It turns out that focusing on your worries by writing about them before a test can boost your scores, according to a different paper published in January in Science.

Schools ply students with calories on test days in hopes of boosting scores, a new report suggests

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

The boost in test scores may be due to specific nutrients in breast milk, said study researcher Wendy Oddy, of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia.

More than 15,000 students avoided repeating a grade and thousands more boosted their test scores substantially.

Although familiarity with the test can add a real boost to scores, the bottom line is students must understand and know how to use and apply their mathematical skills flexibly in a variety of situations.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

Five specific whole - school practices have been shown to boost test scores and increase graduation rates, according to Professor Roland Fryer.

In the first year of the program, the bonus program boost to math scores was, by our estimates, 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 student - level standard deviations.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.

Performance incentives may cause schools and teachers to redirect their efforts toward the least costly ways of raising test scores, at the expense of actions that do not boost scores but may be important for students» long - term welfare.

A teacher tells you he «boosted» his students» high - stakes tests» scores because his kids needed to show a certain level of improvement or he would face sanctions.

Our research sought to examine whether schools that have demonstrated success in raising test scores also boost students» fluid cognitive skills — either as a byproduct or perhaps as a principal pathway for improvements in test scores.

Yes, many interventions that boost test scores, such as being assigned to an effective teacher, have been shown to generate substantial gains in later earnings (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

And two studies cited above — the one by Elder and Lubotsky and the one by Cascio and Schanzenbach — find that, with age held constant, learning with older classmates boosts students» test scores.

Accounting changes helped boost results, too: Children who were absent on test day now are counted as no - shows; before, they were counted among those with failing scores.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

That has left unions ill - prepared to respond to current demands on teachers and schools to boost test scores, increase graduation rates, and better prepare students for success in college or on the job.

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

So the next time someone asks me why it matters whether students go to art museums or see live theater, I can tell them that there is at least as much rigorous evidence showing the long term benefits of cultural activity as there is for interventions designed to boost standardized test scores.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

Many thus far have called for more arts programs ~ which have been proven to boost student test scores and grades across the board.

Ackerman's first superintendent position was in the Washington D.C. Public Schools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff structure.

I am certainly going to go to great lengths to avoid arguing about whether using computers improves test scores, or increases literacy, or boosts mathematics achievement.

In an effort to boost their students» NCLB test scores, many teachers jettison curricular content that — albeit important — is not apt to be covered on an upcoming test.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

While experts worry that schools are «teaching to the test» on some high - pressure state exams, a pair of economists have suggested yet another way schools can boost scores: by «feeding to the test.»

First - of - its - kind study measures college instructor quality Effective teachers boost grades and test scores, in both their own and subsequent courses

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Course for Families Enhances Math Test Scores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suScores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suscores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student success.

Likewise, having 12 additional private schools nearby boosts public school test scores by almost 3 percent of a standard deviation.

And so, for the past 20 years, the question of whether school choice «works» has been understood to mean simply whether a school - choice program boosted reading and math test scores in a given year.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

The problem with framing the issue merely as a question of whether technology boosts test scores is that it fails to address the interaction between technology and the values learned in school.

Labeled as chronically under - performing under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all electives had been stripped away to make more time for reading and math drills in an effort to boost state test scores.