Sentence examples for student improvements from inspiring English sources

The protocol included a procedure for a pre-intervention test to establish the students' skills before working with the module and a post-intervention test after working with the module, in order to measure possible student improvements.

The city's focus on student improvement is commendable.

Many school districts already link teachers' bonuses to student improvement on state assessments.

In Montgomery County, Md., in the Washington suburbs, Superintendent Jerry Weast requires each principal to identify academic areas needing student improvement.

It agreed that Texas fourth graders outperformed their peers nationally in math, but found that otherwise student improvement was about average for the nation.

The grades rely heavily on measures of student improvement, including changes in state tests and graduation rates in high schools, rather than overall performance.

States are increasingly complaining that they cannot meet the ambitious targets set by the law either for student improvement or for the hiring of qualified teachers.

In last week's ruling, a state judge said districts may not choose for their local measure the same indicator of student improvement provided by the state.

The district currently measures school performance using a calculation that awards points based on state test scores, student improvement measures, attendance rates and other factors.

Testing officials said it might take several years of test results before they could say whether the gains were due to student improvement or technical issues involving the way the tests were designed or administered.

But the practice of giving, say, an F, to an otherwise high-performing school that lags in student improvement for a single year stigmatizes the entire school and angers parents.