Sentences with phrase «year achievement results»

Two - and Three - Year Achievement Results From the Memphis Restructuring Initiative (PDF).

And when she describes the results from the federally funded Washington, D.C., experiment, she focuses only on the fourth - year achievement results, which showed a positive effect but fell short of the conventional standard for statistical significance by having a p =.06 instead of.05.

Not exact matches

Each year the Committee, along with HP management, establishes performance targets for short - and long - term incentive plans that require the achievement of significant financial results.

If our economy could grow even 1 % faster over a 20 - year period, the resulting 20 % boost to future living standards would be an extraordinary long - term achievement.

A very impressive achievement indeed, the result of years of devoted work by the editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

My main focus now is editing and compiling articles for the Annual Review 2013, a 60 page magazine covering the sporting achievements and results of the past year.

Look at the results, achievements and accolades some of the sports industry's major stars have garnered over the past few years by using the «mystery ointment.»

To address the issues above, this paper reports on the results of an 18 - year longitudinal study of the relationships between infant feeding practices and later cognitive ability and academic achievement in a birth cohort of > 1000 New Zealand children studied from birth to age 18 years.

«Congratulations to all those students collecting their results in what is another year of fantastic success and achievement.

Attributing the achievements of President Mahama to his commitment to get things done even in difficult situations; Kofi Adams said the remarkable feat the president has chalked within just three years in office will certainly result in victory in this year's polls.

«As this year's results demonstrate, sustained increases in investment in education over the last decade are paying off in terms of increasingly high standards of learning and achievement.

«In the past three years the Independent Democratic Conference's record of achievement has demonstrated a continued ability to produce historic results that make a positive difference in the lives of New York's working families,» said IDC spokeswoman Jennifer Rainville.

«These results reflect the considerable hard work which has been put in by pupils and teachers over the past year, and we should all congratulate them for their achievements.

But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.

May 2017, the TBVAC2020 project conducted a mid-term impact review resulting in an overview of the key achievements of the project after the first two years.

De Blasio says analysis of Year 12 results and NAPLAN data from earlier years highlighted excellent achievements, but also uneven levels of growth.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

These estimates project the historical pattern of growth to determine the result of gains in student achievement, calculate the additions to GDP over the next 80 years, and discount them back to today so that they are comparable to other current investments.

As a result of the legislative activity of the past 20 years, school systems have grown in size and power, under the mistaken assumption that more funding and more authority would give educators the clout and resources they needed to improve achievement.

Results from the latest cycle of the PIRLS assessment (that's the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) show the literacy achievement of Year 4 students in Australia has improved.

From a scientific standpoint, three conclusions are valid about the achievement results in reading from the year 3 impact evaluation of the OSP:

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 yYears 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 yearsyears.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leYear 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year leyear levels

It's not just that results vary, but that they vary almost randomly, erratically, from place to place and grade to grade and year to year in ways that have little or nothing to do with true differences in pupil achievement.

• «All of which» means «some of which,» as the multi-year Louisiana study cited (of which I am co-author) reports no significant achievement impacts of the program after three years and the Indiana study cited reports that the initial negative results of that program turn positive in reading by year four.

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have been called a «cause for grave concern» after they indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 yYears 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 yearsyears.

In math, where Touchstone leaders were unable to hire a master teacher last year, Merit Prep's students had made three - fourths of a year of growth by March — solid results, but not enough to close achievement gaps.

The middle school teacher whose students recorded our highest achievement results on the New York ELA test has more than forty years of experience.

The department softened a proposal to use results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between subgroups.

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

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 development).

Our results indicate that highly effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of learning in a single school year; ineffective principals lower achievement by the same amount.

Scenario 3 essentially projects the results of realizing the achievement goals of NCLB — getting all students to a basic level of academic proficiency — but by the year 2025.

While student achievement results have not been linked to rewards or sanctions for schools until recently, the results of the exams have been distributed to parents annually for at least the past decade, years before implementation of the No Child Left Behind law.

However, it is also clear that the initial achievement hit these students take is not offset by gains in subsequent years, so that even this group, which is harmed least by attending a charter school, still has lower levels of achievement as a result of attending a charter school.

Teachers» unions are strongly against these plans for a variety of reasons, including that they say it's nearly impossible to accurately measure an individual teacher's contribution to a student's success, since a child's achievement is cumulative over a period of years and the result of the efforts of many people.

The results presented here — greater teacher performance as measured by student achievement gains in years following TES review — strongly suggest that teachers develop skills or otherwise change their behavior in a lasting manner as a result of undergoing subjective performance evaluation in the TES process.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

This unique and groundbreaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta - analyses on the influences on achievement in school - aged students.

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.»

«These results are a tremendous achievement in any year but especially this year, as it is the first in which the majority of our students have completed the new linear A level courses.

But when a state switches to a new test, first - year results can't be used to compare achievement to that of previous years.

This belief is shared by the School Travel Forum, which reports that schools take an average of 2.7 residential trips a year, resulting in higher academic achievement.

In fact, the Australian results have been labelled a «cause for grave concern» after they indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievements have flatlined over the past 20 yYears 4 and 8 student achievements have flatlined over the past 20 yearsyears.

His 2008 book Visible Learning details the results of 15 years of research and synthesises over 800 meta - analyses on the influences on achievement in school - aged students.

Second, when a state gives the same test year to year, those results can show growth or declines in achievement.

The contribution of the Responsive Classroom approach on children's academic achievement: Results from a three - year longitudinal study (PDF).

In addition to submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test results.

This was after controlling for students» mean achievement in 7th - grade math the previous year, which establishes that the correlation is not simply the result of diluting the test - taking pool with more students.

In the first two years of his tenure, DISD adopted a new principal evaluation system and a teacher evaluation system that ties teacher evaluations to performance, student achievement results, and compensation.