Sentences with phrase «year of learning compared»

«Students in Ohio e-schools are losing anywhere between 75 days and a full school year of learning compared to their peers in traditional public schools and brick - and - mortar charter schools,» Andrew McEachin, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, said in an interview.

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Business Insider reported on a survey in which 69 % of people 18 to 34 years old said they thought they learned more from technology than from people, compared with 50 % of people older than 45 who said the same.

Those who take part in simulated surgical training, for example, retain as much as 80 % of what they learned a year later, compared to 20 % among people who are taught in traditional ways.

After comparing the two sets of results, we learned that Nest generated $ 278 million in revenue during last year's holiday fourth quarter, which is almost as much as it did in all of 2015, according to previous Recode reporting.

Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement by joseph murphy Corwin, 200 pages, $ 34.95 The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by quinn cummings perigee, 240 pages, $ 23.95 I'm tempted to compare homeschooling to a YouTube video gone viral.

how does a person, a professional footballer who's daily schedule is quite light compared to a regular working class citizen, not learn the basics of English language in a year's time span?

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

Just 34 percent of students with learning disabilities complete a four - year degree within eight years of finishing high school, according to the National Center for Special Education Research, compared to 56 percent of all students nationally who the National Student Clearinghouse reports graduate within six years.

In the early years of IES, Whitehurst and others frequently compared education science with drug studies, indicating that people who study schools should test curricula or learning practices the way a pharmaceutical researcher might test a new drug.

So while it's interesting to compare this El Niño to other events, and doing so helps researchers learn the range of variation El Niño can exhibit, just how the impacts shape up this year are a matter of waiting to see what winter brings.

Researchers at Stanford University, led by Dr. Christopher Gardner, conducted a year - long study comparing the effectiveness and safety of a variety of low - carb and low - fat weight loss diets: Atkins, the Zone, Ornish, and LEARN.

Just this year, we learned that there is a striking difference in the nutritional content of corn produced with GMO compared to corn produced without GMO.

In this quasi-experimental study on the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program, 11 LTTA schools were compared to control schools over three years to examine the benefits of an arts - integrated sixth grade curriculum.

Nonetheless, a top - notch teacher, as compared to a typical one, can over the course of a year raise student performance by as much as a third of a year's worth of learning.

Oxford Home Schooling, part of the Oxford Open Learning Trust, used data from Europe - wide reporting to investigate how the UK compares against three key areas of education: pupils per teacher, years spent in school and level of national investment in schools.

A Sutton Trust review found that over a school year, poorer pupils gain 1.5 years» worth of learning with very effective teachers, compared with 0.5 years with poorly performing teachers.

Apps and safety 83 per cent of the pupils that took part now find using apps an effective and easy way to learn new things, compared to 64 per cent at the start of the year.

29.1 % of training hours were delivered with blended learning methods - increased by 0.8 as compared to previous year

4.2 % of training hours were delivered via social learning - increased by 0.9 % as compared to previous year

Data from the 2012 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) tests for 15 - year - olds were analysed to compare the digital skills of students and learning environments.

The table below shows that demographic shifts are particularly unlikely to explain the drops in 8th - grade scores, which fell by about three months of learning over the last two years, compared to an average demographic - predicted score decrease of about one month of learning every two years.

Better engagement and learning Evidence for the study was collected from teachers at the initial stages of tablet implementation and compared with teachers who had used the technology for a year.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

For example, in work that I have done studying performance in disadvantaged urban schools, a top teacher can in one year produce an added gain from students of one full year's worth of learning compared to students suffering under a very ineffective teacher.

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other public schools.»

This First Grade Literacy Centers for the Year includes: Unit 1: - phonics: short a - words to know - comprehension: character chart - comprehension: character - ending: s, short a - fluency - text features: photographs - phonics: short a - double final consonants - study skills: parts of a book - phonics: short I - phonics: final blends: nd, st, nt, nk - comprehension: author's purpose chart - cvcc words - literacy element: rhyme and more... Unit 2: - phonics: short o - words to know - comprehension: main idea and details web - comprehension: main idea and details - ending: ed - fluency - phonics: digraphs: sh, th - ending: - ing - fluency - study skill: dictionary - phonics: digraphs: sh, th, short e, o - phonics: short u - contractions:'s - fluency - text features: directions and more... Unit 3: - phonics: long a - words to know - comprehension: predictions chart - comprehension: make predictions - endings: - ed, - ing - words to know - comprehension: compare and contrast - chart - one - and two - syllable words - fluency - literary element: word choice - phonics: digraphs: ch, tch, wh - phonics: long I - phonics: blends, scr, spl, spr, str and more... Unit 4: - phonics: long o - words to know - endings: - er, - est - literary element: repetition - phonics: long o, i, a - phonics: long u - words to know - comprehension: conclusions chart - comprehension: draw conclusions - fluency - vocabulary strategy: context clues - CVCe words - text feature: floor plan - phonics: long u, o and more... Unit 5: - phonics: long o - words to know - comprehension: fantasy and reality chart - comprehension: fantasy and reality - fluency - vocabulary strategy: dictionary - ending: - y - comprehension: problem and solution chart - comprehension: problem and solution - fluency - vocabulary strategy: word parts - endings: - er, - est - text feature: diagram - phonics: r - controlled vowel: ar - abbreviations: Mr., Sat., Dr. @Little Tots Learning Enjoy!

Since the Colorado Growth Model compares students only to those who had similar test scores in the past, a student can show «high growth» by gaining five months of learning a year if the comparison group is only gaining four months.

In a separate Harris poll of 1,207 WGU graduates and 1,403 graduates of other colleges nationwide, also conducted last year, 78 percent of Western Governors grads said what they learned was directly related to their work, compared to 68 percent of the other graduates.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

A third - party evaluation conducted by Douglas Ready at Teachers College found that students made annual academic gains equivalent to a half year of additional learning compared to national averages.

According to a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, students enrolled in urban charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math per year and 28 additional days in reading compared to students in district schools.

According to a report released last year by the National Federation of the Blind, about half of all blind children learned Braille in the 1950s compared with 10 percent today.

A second - order meta - analysis of 25 meta - analyses encompassing over 1,000 studies and 40 years of research on technology and classroom learning found that the use of technology in the classrooms shows a small to moderate positive effect on student learning, as compared to technology - free traditional instruction.

And, in 2013, a study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that New Orleans charter schools deliver five months of extra learning per year when compared to similarly situated traditional schools.

Students at the greatest risk for summer learning loss can lose up to two years of grade - level reading and math ability by the time they reach fifth grade when compared to children from higher - income households.»

Naeyaert cited a Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) study done by Stanford University that found Detroit school children are learning at a rate of an extra three months in school a year when in charter public schools compared to similar counterparts in conventional Detroit Public Schools.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).

Kane found that students «who are taught by a teacher in the bottom 5 percent of competence lose 9.54 months of learning in a single year compared to students with average teachers,» the judge noted in his ruling.

«Surprisingly, it's more difficult now to get kids to take ownership of their own learning and come up with ideas they're interested in compared to what we've seen in years past.

And a 2015 Stanford University study cited by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools showed that low - income Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district schools.

In one study of mine, teachers near the top of the quality distribution got an entire year's worth of additional learning out of their students compared to those near the bottom.

Compared to Chicago Public Schools» district - wide 1 - point improvement in the same period, these two schools improved by 8 and 10 points, respectively, on the student - teacher trust measure of the 5Essentials Survey — a school climate survey based on more than 20 years of research that found schools strong on three or more of the 5Essential components were ten times more likely to improve student learning gains.

In the 1970s, researchers began to measure the effect of school attendance on learning by comparing learning rates during the school year with learning rates during the summer.

• In Indianapolis, charter schools students gain an additional 47 days of learning in math and 55 days in reading compared to district peers each year.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Students in poverty, black students, and those who are English language learners (ELL) gain significantly more days of learning each year in both reading and math compared to their traditional public school peers.

A report from Stanford University shows that mayor - sponsored charters in Indianapolis generate two to three months of additional learning each year compared to traditional public schools.

Last year, 71 percent of students learning English at Consortium schools graduated on time, compared to only 37 percent of English learners around the city.

The 2012 report defines expanded - time schools as public schools that expand learning time for all enrolled students; operate with a school day of at least seven hours; and have a substantially longer day or year when compared with surrounding public schools.