Sentences with phrase «while students performing»

So, students performing below a certain cut score might demonstrate partial command of material in a given subject, while students performing above the cut score might demonstrate moderate command.

Cuomo, in his State of the State message back in January, pointed out what he believed were the flaws in an evaluation system that rated most teachers very highly, while students perform poorly.

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We found that some students were selected for paper - class treatment because they were considered behavior problems in the classroom, while others were selected simply because they were student - athletes On one occasion, for example, a Swahili instructor apparently requested that up to six football players be enrolled in a Swahili 3 paper class because they were under - performing in the Swahili 3 lecture class.

While some in the high - performing Montgomery County district have pointed to the limitations of such weekends — saying homework may simply get steered to other days or students doing longer projects might not feel relief — several principals said they have found it helpful and kept it going for years.

For example, while a child who lacks confidence may excel when it comes to studying and performing on tests, he or she may not be willing to try anything else at school to become a more well - rounded student.

While Cuomo claims the state has thrown money at these schools for too long, Baker calculated that 12 of the 17 lowest - performing school districts cited by Cuomo are among those with the largest state funding shortfalls, based on student need.

A secondary school student, one Raimi Fatai, in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital reportedly died while performing money ritual rites on Tuesday, P.M News reports.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

While not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able studWhile not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able studwhile also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able students.

The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of eight secondary school students suspected to be cult members while performing an initiation rite.

«A lot of the animals that lived around the time had a similar upright or semi-upright hind limb posture, but what's interesting and special about Bunostegos is the forelimb, in that it's anatomy is sprawling - precluding and seemingly directed underneath its body — unlike anything else at the time,» said Turner who performed the analysis under the supervision of Professor Christian Sidor while a student at the University of Washington.

While discovery - type positions tend to be filled by postdocs and graduate students, people who perform drug formulation research and contract manufacturing at places like the universities of Kentucky, Iowa, and Maryland often take permanent positions as group leaders, supervisors, or technicians, Mayer adds.

Published this week in the journal PNAS, a research team led by psychology professor John McDonald and doctoral student John Gaspar used EEG technology to determine that while «high - capacity» individuals (those who perform well on memory tasks) are able to suppress distractors, «low - capacity» individuals are unable to suppress them in time to prevent them from grabbing their attention.

This indicates that neuronal activity specifically during REM sleep is required for normal memory consolidation,» says the study's lead author Richard Boyce, a PhD student who, ironically, often stayed up all night while performing the experiments.

His study of the slap shot, performed while he was a student at the University of Waterloo, has led to a fruitful collaboration between his present - day employer and his alma mater.

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

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«A lot of the animals that lived around the time had a similar upright or semi-upright hind limb posture, but what's interesting and special about Bunostegos is the forelimb, in that its anatomy is sprawling — precluding and seemingly directed underneath its body — unlike anything else at the time,» said Turner who performed the analysis under the supervision of Christian Sidor while a student at the University of Washington.

After six weeks, the results showed that the students who performed the protocol for five days a week had increased their aerobic fitness by 14 %, while the control group who performed 60 - minute rides on stationary bikes five days a week had improved their aerobic fitness by 10 % only.

In an Iyengar class, students perform a variety of postures while controlling the breath.

While normally pranayama is more or less silent, encouraging the student with dementia to inhale through the nose and exhale audibly ensures the instructor that deeper breathing is indeed being performed.

While Sprint 8 has been the featured cardio program in award - winning Vision Fitness cardio equipment for several years, Sprint 8 can be performed in a classroom by students.

I spent the next four years continuing to work in the massive student theatre scene at NU while performing, so by the time I made my choice to switch, it was much more of a slight perspective shift than a total 360.

The story of a ballet student who dreams of stardom, and while her technical brilliance is readily apparent to all her work with her, the young woman's inability to attach herself emotionally to the music or to the movements she's being asked to perform keeps her from achieving greatness.

At Studio 4, he taught a class titled «Sex Scenes,» and students allege that he pressured them to perform scenes partially nude or acted inappropriately while filming sexual encounters.

While music is an effective memory cue and learning modality, many students still perform best when visual cues are paired with auditory stimuli.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Kids might present a poem or write a skit (which classmates perform); musical kids can create a rap or song, while visual - spatial students can choose to present material via picture or graph.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.

While for the most part the arts have been on the fringes of education, when they become a larger part of the curriculum, they can engage students in numerous ways, and particularly can benefit students in low - income, low - performing schools.

For me, one thing that really jumped out of your report was that while Australia's average scores are declining in all three domains — that's scientific literacy, reading literacy and mathematical literacy — the proportion of low performing students is increasing.

BAA is Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, where students come from every neighborhood to explore their passion while also receiving a full college preparatory education.

The GRC analysis also differs from those of Hanushek et al. in that the latter focus on students performing at the advanced or proficient level, while we focused on the average student performance in both math and reading.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

The performing arts offer a powerful way to connect students with many different learning styles, and they can be especially effective in helping children experience the joy of being artists while learning essential skills for the future.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

In contrast, as district employees, these aspiring teachers will receive a salary and benefits, along with credit for being student teachers while they serve full - time in three Opportunity Culture schools under the district's highest - performing educators.

While this sounds both noble and egalitarian, it in fact expects those schools that had a lower percentage of students scoring at the proficient level in 2002 to make more rapid progress over the ensuing years than those with higher - performing students.

While these marginally performing students are likely to benefit from increased attention, reallocation of instructional attention leads to a tradeoff whereby the achievement gains of the marginally performing students come at the expense of both the lowest - and highest - performing students.

While teaching students to read, perform math, and understand science and technology is certainly important, I ask you to consider what we are doing in schools to help students deal with stress, to self - manage, to grow in self - awareness.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

Very likely, the difference is due to the fact that EdNext refers to «academic progress on state tests,» while PDK refers to how well students «perform on standardized test.»

While agreeing that low - performing students need more assistance, Goodwin said he is not convinced of the effectiveness of pay incentives.

Six countries plus Shanghai and Hong Kong had majorities of students performing at least at the proficiency level, while the United States had less than one - third.

Cheney penned the foreword, accurately if mildly noting: «The results... show that while a few students did very well, most did not perform satisfactorily.»

Oakes and others insisted that detracking would help the lowest - performing students (who would enjoy better teachers, a more challenging level of instruction, and exposure to their higher - achieving peers) while not hurting top students.

Principals can be effective at identifying high - and low - performing teachers (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006), and while all observation rubrics may not be perfectly aligned with student growth, they can be applied to all teachers — not just those in tested grades and subjects.

While this means that some of the students, whose test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.

Students attending a district school co-located with a charter school perform 0.08 standard deviations better in math and 0.06 standard deviations better in reading, while those in district schools within a half - mile of a charter school perform 0.02 standard deviations better in both math and reading.

Likewise, students of teachers who reported that they had a lot of influence on the subject matter to be taught performed worse in science, while the effect in math was statistically insignificant.