Sentences with phrase «than the achievement levels»

Not exact matches

Even controlling for grade - point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels of academic achievement.

Interestingly, the most comprehensive study of such things found atheists to be above average intelligence and education, but with lower levels of success and achievement than Christians of camparable background.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

Jim, atheists, as a group, have higher IQs and greater levels of scholastic achievement than do religious people.

There is only the empty discovery that each level of achievement leaves one in touch with others who can boast about a bit more than you can.

If all states of affairs were intrinsically at the same level, there would be no valid reason for aiming at the achievement of one rather than another.

Last school year, more than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer school before moving to the next grade level.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

For more than 25 years his passion has been helping recruiters take their careers and businesses to another level by inspiring personal & business growth, success and achievement.

And if it's about something other than finding the highest achievements then let it be about something MORE important like leveling the power dynamic in Hollywood, for instance.

But as you get the rhythm you will see that there's nothing more satisfying than the feeling of genuine achievement after you've nailed another hellish level.

Cut the Rope: Triple Treat compiles three standalone adventures, bursting with over 650 levels for more than 50 hours of gameplay, as well as the precision control interface of the Nintendo 3DS stylus, online leaderboards, in - game achievements, stereoscopic 3D visuals during gameplay and cheerfully animated Om Nom Stories.

According to the American Psychological Association, students with a more positive and connected relationship with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

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.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

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.

Both victimised young people and those who take part in bullying across time may demonstrate lower levels of achievement than expected (Pepler et al., 2002).

«Getting better at maths» is a lot more abstract than «reaching level 10 and unlocking a new power», and so it can be difficult for younger children to get the same sense of achievement from their progress.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

• If each state instead meets the achievement level of the best state in its region, gains would still amount to roughly $ 35 trillion, more than twice the nation's current GDP.

In over half of the states, there are no more than three districts that reach average achievement levels in the upper third.

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

The report's most contentious finding was that minority students attending Catholic schools had higher levels of achievement than those in public schools.

For example, urban students generally have higher achievement levels than rural / remote students.

When we create groups based on demographic characteristics, we find that some groups have higher average achievement levels than others.

Individual students would attempt online assessments when they felt ready to demonstrate achievement of the next proficiency level, rather than in specified assessment periods.

Looking at gains rather than levels of achievement also adjusts for the fear that performance pay will make all teachers want to teach the highest - achieving kids.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

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.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.

Under the assumption that students in the same year of school are at broadly similar levels of achievement, teachers then teach the relevant year - level curriculum, accepting that some students inevitably will learn more of what they teach than others.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

Sorting schools by initial achievement rather than poverty level produces even larger differences (see Figure 1).

«They might tell you more about idiosyncrasies in that combination of kids than the level of achievement or the quality of teaching and learning that's going on,» Dunbar explains.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about 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.

«Incremental learners» showed significantly higher achievement levels than «entity theory» learners over the years they were studied by Dweck.

Since 2006, the number of Houston schools earning one of the state's top ratings has more than doubled to exceed 200 campuses, fewer students are repeating a grade level, and more are testing at the highest levels of academic achievement.

Third, the lack of relationship between «better» standards and achievement might be caused by low levels of compliance by schools and educators rather than the unreliable judgment of experts.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

These gains are less susceptible to the home influences than the simple level of achievement at one point in time.

It also discovered that: disadvantaged girls were also significantly less likely to have continued their academic career than more advantaged girls, although the achievement gap was less marked; and that disadvantaged girls were much less likely to enter four or more AS - level exams than other girls, and almost four times less likely to enter three or more A-levels than other girls.

The results in maths show that 44 per cent of the students tested do not meet the baseline identified in ACARA's Measurement Framework for Schooling in Australia 2012 (2013); which outlines a «challenging but reasonable expectation of student achievement at a year level, with students needing to demonstrate more than the elementary skills expected at this level.»

Positive attitude helps them focus and absorb information quicker and more effectively than any other technique, not only because it creates the right environment for enjoying the eLearning experience, but also because it increases motivation and achievement levels by making learners more productive, helping them to retain and recall more information.

Few researchers would quibble with their methodological preference: «When it comes to pupil achievement, assessment of gains over time (panel studies), rather than absolute levels at a specific point in time, is superior.»

We also talk about teaching that raises achievement and builds personal agency, peer dynamics that support rather than undermine success, community - level leadership and engaging the business community.

Are average levels of achievement in a school better than they used to be?