Sentences with phrase «used by students across»

Grades: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Flashcards, a popular learning aid used by students across subject areas, just got easier to create and share.

It is simple enough to be used by students across primary and secondary.

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(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

They include the BEST (Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training) programs at 17 institutes across the country; encouraging the use of individual development plans (IDPs) by all NIH - supported graduate students and postdocs; and, one I am particularly pleased about, offering individual F30 and F31 predoctoral fellowships through all the NIH institutes and centers.

A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.

In this instalment of The Research Files we discuss student fitness and wellbeing, specifically, two simple exercise programs — the first is a new project aimed at improving adolescent health and wellbeing, and the second is being used by thousands of early years and primary students across the world.

As well as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 2016.

Since nonusers could not have been affected by the voucher, the impact of scholarship use can be computed easily by dividing the pure experimental impact by the proportion of treatment students who used their scholarships, effectively rescaling the impact across scholarship users instead of all treatment students including nonusers.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

Outside of students» work being seen by other classes across the globe and by experts chiming into their class discussions, Albemarle also uses social media to involve their local community by:

Melissa Techman, the librarian at Broadus Wood Elementary, empowers her students» voices by asking for feedback on the work, look, and usability of the library, and she uses social media for connecting students across the district to foster that discussion.

In order to use an empty number line or mental number line effectively, students need to be able to count by 10s, on and off the decade, and to jump across — or bridge — tens.

Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Understanding the context of the poem and the horrific events that took place in the battle; - Understanding key information about Owen Sheers» life; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Interpreting the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the language and structural features; - Finding and analysing the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; - Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across his message about war; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.

Senior leaders or even business managers can and have taken driving roles in creating a new school by bringing together a team of teachers and other professionals and using their knowledge and experience to help bring an outstanding education to more students across their local area.

Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Exploring the key concept of «love» and its many meanings; - Understanding key information about William Shakespeare and his sonnets; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Understanding the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the content, language, and structural features; - Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Shakespeare gets across his messages about love in the poem, through the use of language and structure; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.

Larson, who presents a session called Classroom Walk - Through Training, says teachers benefit by learning to use reflection to increase their knowledge, skills, and performance; strategically aligning classroom instruction to district curriculum; and increasing student learning across grade levels.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Work with youth, community providers, and students to develop a list of standards, using PASA's standards across five areas as well as those created by other cities as a point of reference.

Whether you're looking to engage students by taking polls or grab their attention with educational cartoons, this list offers some great ideas for using iPad apps across the content areas.

Using variation in course - taking that arises both from changes in course offerings at particular campuses in a particular term and from variation across students in the distance that they have to travel to take in - person courses, we find that taking a course online reduces student grades by 0.44 points on the traditional four - point grading scale, approximately a 0.33 standard deviation decline relative to taking a course in - person (See Figure 1).

Discussing how to build confidence to help turn abstract mathematical concepts into the concrete and support with numeracy across the curriculum and advantaging the teachers and students through the use of self - marking software and flipped learning, this session, «Just Add Concrete — Building Confidence in Maths» was hosted by Danielle Bartram, Mathematics Lead Practitioner and Numeracy Coordinator at Acklam Grange School.

In this instalment of The Research Files we'll be discussing student fitness and wellbeing, specifically, two simple exercise programs — the first is a new project aimed at improving adolescent health and wellbeing, and the second is being used by thousands of early years and primary students across the world.

The principal shall determine each such student's need for academic intervention services by administering a State - developed or State - approved assessment or by reviewing such student's transcript, where available, or by use of a district - wide screening procedure applied uniformly across each grade.

Researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond used fourth - and eighth - grade NAEP math data to compare student performance growth across states by type of accountability system (none, report card, or consequential).

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Across the country this spring, hundreds of high - school students have been arrested because their sale or use of illicit drugs on school grounds was observed by undercover narcotics agents posing as students.

The district has administered the ITBS, one of several standardized, multiple - choice exams used by districts across the country, to students in grades 3 to 8 for many years.

Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics (Grades K - 12)- 25 Formative Assessment Probes, by Cheryl Rose, Carolyn Arline, and Leslie Minton (2007) This first volume in the series contains 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade levels.

Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics (Grades K - 5)- 25 Formative Assessment Probes for the Elementary Classroom, by Cheryl Rose Tobey and Leslie Minton (2010) This third volume in the series contains 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grades in elementary school.

But the typical approaches to data use by districts and principals had no measurable influence on student learning across school levels in the aggregate.

Strategies for Understanding Word Problems by Christine King, K - 4 (1:45 P.M. — 2:35 P.M.) This workshop will provide participants with hands - on, small - group experiences focusing on 10 strategies that can be used immediately in the classroom to increase student comprehension of word problems across all the key concepts.

The MIDAS has been used by a wide variety of students and researchers across America and around the world from post-doctoral to 8th grade science projects.

As a strategy employed by teacher leaders, lesson planning, review, or analysis may be used for various purposes: to focus attention on the content and learning outcomes in a lesson, rather than on an «activity for activity's sake»; to deepen understanding of «big ideas» and the content knowledge in a lesson; or for articulating the conceptual flow across lessons that guides student learning over time.

Innovative schools across the United States and Canada are using Project Foundry as a management tool to help engage students by facilitating student - directed, teacher - organized and / or school - initiated project - based learning.

Thousands of educators across the country use the Understanding by Design (UbD ®) framework, created by the late Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, to get a handle on standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a standards - based curriculum that leads to student understanding and achievement.

ACER has undertaken an evaluation of ICT in education in Papua province to inform national, provincial and local policies and curricular strategies aimed at improving the learning outcomes achieved by basic and secondary education students and adult learners in Papua; and to improve the quality of the teaching and learning using ICT across the curriculum.

Historically, schools have used home visits as interventions to problems, but the PTHV model was created by parents and community organizers with the aim of building cooperation across the board, without targeting «problem students.»

Education Equality Index Scores are calculated using proficiency data from annual state assessments taken by students in math and reading across all grades tested.

PCN advances college opportunity by promoting the use of research - based policies and practices, the development of new research that is both rigorous and actionable, and the alignment of efforts across middle school, high school, and higher education in order to improve college access and success for underserved students.

Students can use DreamBox by desktop, laptop, or iPad environment, and student progress will be synced across all devices.

By using whiteboard videos and other interactive tools, you can easily design a course that engages your students, improves retention and gets your message across, particularly in a flipped class model.

Communities across the country are reducing chronic absenteeism by using a comprehensive set of strategies that: 1) prevents absences from occurring, 2) organizes caring and early outreach to families and students before absences add up, and 3) coordinates supports and services for vulnerable students who miss the most school.

The Performance Matters Growth Platform is used by more than 1 million educators and 11 million students in school districts across the country.

By having set standards across the nation, it also makes it easier for those who develop curricula to provide high - quality content that students will use in their studies.

In Ascension Parish, Louisiana, a suburban district just south of Baton Rouge, district and school leaders use data on teacher effectiveness with students to analyze strategies, both within and across schools, to ensure that high - need students are taught by effective educators.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at computer use among 15 - year - olds across 31 nations and regions, and found that students who used computers more at school had both lower reading and lower math scores, as measured by PISA or Program for International Student Assessment.

Solberg's research underlying the development and practical application of ScholarCentric's College and Career Readiness Indicator — used by districts and schools to identify students who are «ready», «somewhat ready,» and «not ready» for future life and success — across 9 evidence - based skills and competencies.