Sentences with phrase «times on student achievement»

The effect of start times on student achievement,» will appear in the May issue of Education Next and is available online at www.educationnext.org.

For more on this topic, please read «Do Schools Begin Too Early: The effect of start times on student achievement»

The data allow me to use several different methods to analyze the effect of start times on student achievement.

Requiring each district to measure and track the efficiency and effectiveness of its ELT schools, including developing measurable goals to annually and longitudinally assess the implementation and impact of additional learning time on student achievement, retention, attendance, higher education attainment, and other relevant measures.

Not exact matches

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

«The teachers are [also] going to be learning how to plot student achievement at one time on a Guttman Chart and identify the Zones of Proximal Development, and target teaching at those.»

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

• Look at proficiency rates plus the growth in individual students» achievement over time on all of the above.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

If research continues to show that comprehensive character education has positive effects on student achievement as well, then the movement may in time gain more robust political and financial support from education policymakers.

Now, I won't sit here and say every time a student struggles, it is the fault of the teacher, but with that, when such happens, regardless of fault, as educators, it is our responsibility to redress the instruction and more importantly, our responsibility to reflect on our instruction and identify where changes can be made to maximize the potential for student achievement.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educattime unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educatTime & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educattime to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

In a time of educational accountability and revenue shortfalls, the first question on the minds of policymakers seeking to trim already - lean school budgets often is: How does this program improve student achievement?

They mean that the students in the control group would need to remain in school an extra 3.7 months on average to catch up to the level of reading achievement attained by those who used the scholarship opportunity to attend a private school for any period of time.

Studies have not focused on young adolescents, the time when students are particularly sensitive to gender differences and when gender gaps in achievement are pronounced.

What impact would a later start time have on student achievement?

The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectivenTime (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiventime to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

One of my all - time favorite duh - posits, the Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry - Level Earnings, comes from The National Bureau of Economic Research.

To guard against illusory achievement gains, states should rate elementary and middle schools based on the on - time promotion rate of students in the next two grades after they leave a school (as Morgan Polikoff recommends).

A 2013 quasi-experimental analysis found that, «on average, extended learning time (ELT) tutorials at Match Charter Public High School raised student achievement on the 10th grade English language arts examination between.15 and.25 standard deviations per year.»

On Top of the News Holes in the case against Michelle Rhee The Washington Times 04/11/11 Behind the Headline The Case Against Michelle Rhee Education Next Summer 2011 In the Washington Times, Paul Peterson scrutinizes two recent studies of student achievement in the District of Columbia, and concludes that «the case against Michelle -LSB-...]

The «nation's report card» on student achievement will collect data that can be used to make state - by - state comparisons for the first time in 1990.

It opens the way, for the first time, to comparing student, school and district performance across the land on a credible, common metric — and gauging their achievement against that of youngsters in other countries on our shrinking and ever - more - competitive planet.

Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based on the average prior academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmetime and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmeTime (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL)- Nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educaTime & Learning (NCTL)- Nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded educatime to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education

The costs of extra planning time are offset, however, by significant rewards, as evidenced by students» successes and their improved confidence and attitudes, as well as their achievement on standardized tests.

Researchers generally define VAMs as statistical models designed to measure a teacher's influence — the «value» added or subtracted — on student achievement over time.

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.

Last month, Education Next published a study that I conducted with Amelie Wupperman that looked at the impact on student achievement of teaching time devoted to lecturing vs. problem - solving activities.

Performance measures based on the growth in student achievement over time, which are only possible with annual testing, provide a fairer, more accurate picture of schools» contribution to student learning.

It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Moreover, school districts need to use that time productively, to assemble data on student achievement, classroom observations, and, ideally, student evaluations.

At the same time, demand for good charter schools has swelled, as the best of them have notched remarkable success on measures of student achievement.

As an additional step to address any lingering concerns about Catholicism's direct influence on student achievement, we conducted both stages of our analysis again, this time accounting for the relationship between contemporary differences in the share of Catholic adherents in a country and student achievement.

For Winn, a better alternative would be to base accountability not on a student's academic «status» at any one point in time, but instead on documented «growth» in achievement.

The United States is a big country, and it takes a long time to move the needle on student achievement scores.

For example, when we asked students to discuss changes in achievement, one student said, «Now I get assignments turned in on time, and my grades have improved.»

At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

A review of research by Duke University Professor Harris Cooper found that for elementary school students, «the average correlation between time spent on homework and achievement... hovered around zero.»

If you look at student achievement data, say in New York state, results on the typical New York state test correlate to socioeconomic status in reading, one and a half to two times as much as they do in math.

At the same time, serious questions remain about the effects of NBCTs on student achievement and about the cost - effectiveness of the NBPTS's approach to improving the standard of teaching.

Attending a Boston charter school makes special education students 1.4 times more likely to score proficient or higher on their standardized tests, resulting in a 30 percent reduction of the special education achievement gap.

Employing information on in - class time use provided by a nationally representative sample of U.S. teachers in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we estimate the impact of teaching practices on student achievement by looking at the differential effects on the same student of two different teachers, using two different teaching strategies.

If teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a true causal effect.

With funding from that program, state agencies have been assembling data on students, teachers, and schools, and linking them over time, making it possible to measure growth in achievement.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

Her dissertation examined the effects of Teach For America on student achievement, documenting variation in the impact of Teach For America across the distribution of student achievement, subject areas, developmental stages, baseline proficiency, and as the organization has evolved over time.