Sentences with phrase «using school performance data»

In the past two years, our researchers have determined, charter school authorizers used school performance data to approve 944 new, quality charter schools and to close 416 schools that have persistently failed.

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The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance data in assessing teachers.

The second company, EDUmetrika, is working with a school to develop a new kind of school information system that emphasizes the use of data — metrics and key performance indicators — to help with decision - making.

Schools regularly use large amounts of data from media rich applications and web ‑ based services, requiring higher levels of security and network performance than most homes and many businesses.

We also used new data to see whether the academic performance of students in traditional public schools and the influence of teachers unions affect the strength of charter school legislation in a state.

Arkansas uses its testing data to track school performance and hold schools accountable for student achievement.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Using Nearpod to present a new school initiative or review performance data would be a method of keeping your staff focused and involved in the presentation.

Nevada holds schools accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.

We conducted our analysis alternately using absolute student achievement, measured with statewide mean SAT scores for the 1989 — 90 school year and the mean high - school dropout rate calculated from 1990 census data, and with a second measure that represents the deviation of actual achievement from expected student performance.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Although the tests described above were created to measure the performance of schools, CMU shared with the schools ways in which they could use the data generated to improve teaching and learning.

But, because it varies so widely across classrooms, this micro-level data is usually not included in the accountability programs that states use to compare school performance.

Barely more than one third said it was false that the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards (it does not), just 15 percent said it was false that the federal government will receive detailed data on the test performance of individual students in participating states (it will not), and fewer than half said it was true that states and local school districts can decide which textbooks to use under Common Core (they can).

In this paper, we use an extensive student - level data set to evaluate the impact of charter schools in North Carolina on the math and reading performance of students in grades 4 through 8.

«In the 21,000 - student Syracuse city school system in New York, which was recently accepted into the Strategic Data Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&raData Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&radata uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.»

It was pretty radical, by New York standards, ordering school districts to evaluate teachers using student performance data as one of the key measures of teacher competence.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

Voters and parents are expected to make use of these data in choosing school districts or schools, and to hold administrators and school board members accountable for the schools» performance at each election.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

The National Alliance of Business, a prominent supporter of efforts to improve education, has merged with a group that uses data to drive better school performance.

In addition, Johnson used a projector in an in - service staff meeting to present Web - based state test results and school performance data.

These random assignments allow us to use the STAR data to compare the performance of students assigned to career - ladder teachers with the performance of students in the same school and grade who were assigned to nonparticipating teachers.

Here we use the data from all three cities to analyze the one - and two - year effects on academic performance of switching from a public to a private school.

«The data used to judge the performance of schools and the progress children are making at Key Stage 1 are teacher assessment judgements.

It says Ofsted is engaging with the Department for Education in a «data science project» to «explore the possibility of using near - realtime data and information from social media and other sources to predict and prevent decline in school performance».

So, whilst it's certainly not the silver bullet that we all wish we had to solve the crisis within teaching, more strategic use of data within workforce planning could and should be helping schools and MATs to improve their teacher recruitment and retention, and to drive performance.

She adds that the AEDC data is only one snapshot, staff also use PIPS (Performance Indicators in Primary Schools) data and daily formative assessments to inform teaching practice and learning needs.

He holds frequent meetings with principals to discuss and improve their work, visits classrooms constantly, and strategically uses data about classroom performance to help school leaders make decisions.

Using data from the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a benchmarking test of 15 - year - olds in 33 countries, researchers led by Margriet van Hek, a sociologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, looked at how school characteristics affected boys» and girls» reading performance.

This data was quickly adopted by LAUSD's Performance Management Unit and used to identify schools outperforming expectation in an effort to pinpoint best practices that may benefit those schools in need of target support and intervention.

(i) Conduct a self - assessment that evaluates the program's progress towards meeting goals established under paragraph (a) of this section, using aggregated child assessment data where applicable, compliance with program performance standards throughout the program year, and the effectiveness of the professional development and family engagement systems in promoting school readiness, using classroom, professional development, and parent and family engagement data, as appropriate;

College / Career Indicator Reports and Data The College / Career Indicator uses multiple measures to provide a performance level based on the number of students who are likely prepared for success after high school.

[3] Community eligibility schools are not required to find their Identified Students each year, but would benefit from doing so because their free reimbursement percentage could increase, it can help their state meet direct certification performance benchmarks, and it would allow them to use the data for purposes outside the meals programs.

Led by Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen, the General Assembly, and the State Board of Education, business organizations, foundations, and Republican Senator Bill Frist's SCORE initiative, reform partisans have increasingly supported the use of TVAAS data in the assessment of school and teacher performance.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

The scores are also used to construct the Index of Basic Education Development (IDEB), which combines school performance and grade repetition data.

The Center systematically gathers data from school districts on their use of performance evaluations for compensation purposes.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&raData Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

My CEPR colleagues and I have used data from the 2014 - 15 field test to perform preliminary analyses of the reliability of students» survey responses and their validity, when aggregated to the school level, as an indicator of school performance.

It encouraged states to lift caps on charter schooling and remove data «firewalls» that prohibited states from using student performance to evaluate teachers.

Our interest is specifically in schools and platforms that use technology intensively and thoughtfully to tailor instruction to individual students» needs, and provide robust, frequent data on their performance.

By focusing on middle school, one can simply use the statewide data on a child's performance on tests for students in grades 3 through 8, as mandated by No Child Left Behind.

Step 4: Schools that made it through the first three steps became eligible to be judged nationally on the final step — college - readiness performance — using Advanced Placement test data as the benchmark for success.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

At a minimum, leaders used these data to identify concerns about the performance of students overall in selected curricular areas, or about specific schools and groups of students.

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

Some district leaders also gathered data from schools using district performance benchmarks and indicators.

How to use school and college performance data to interpret pupil attainment and progress, and compare schools and colleges in England.