Sentences with phrase «beyond measuring achievement»

Beyond measuring achievement effects, however, there has been only limited analysis of the impacts of charters on the students who attend them.

Not exact matches

The regulations appear to disallow states from looking beyond «proficiency» when measuring academic achievement.

Does CFSI measure the school system's contributions to achievement beyond high school?

Most of these schools also regularly collect portfolios of student work in an attempt to go beyond standardized test results and provide richer measures of achievement.

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

Using data from California's CORE districts, we show that SEL and CC measures demonstrate reliability and validity, distinguish between schools, are related to other academic and non-academic measures, and also illuminate dimensions of student achievement that go beyond traditional indicators.

The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively affect the chance that a student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.

Renzulli: The most important thing we can do to raise expectations is to broaden our concept of «achievement» beyond the rather simplistic notion that it is only what is measured on achievement tests.

The study also finds that many states already measure student achievement beyond what is required in the NCLB Act, including test performance in additional subjects and growth in student performance over time.

RAND, a non-profit analysis group, said expanding measures of school performance beyond mathematics and English language arts will give educators better information when evaluating the academic achievements of schools.

We analyzed the data in the context of seven additional measures related to principals «assessments of the districts «focus on accountability — through such items, e.g., as Our district has explicit targets beyond NCLB targets, and The district uses student achievement data to determine PD needs and resources.

The schools included in the table above did not meet any of the initial criteria and the Multiple Measure Review did not yield evidence of student outcome success and growth in achievement beyond that which is seen at other schools.

In addition to measuring academic achievement, ESSA will also require schools to address at least one non-academic «other indicator» beyond traditional measures such as state exam scores or graduation rates.

It concluded that financial savings were relatively small and achievement gains hard to measure beyond the anecdotal.

How can we go beyond academic achievement to measure a broader range of the skills and dispositions necessary for success in college, career, and community?

The checklists encourage schools to examine achievement in stretching students beyond the minimum and also including measures on student performances and developing Life / Career Abilities or «soft skills.»

SGO in one paragraph: The «student growth objective» is a second measure that will look at student achievement beyond state test scores.

WHEREAS, the San Diego Unified Vision 2020, long - term strategic plan, Quality Schools in Every Neighborhood, supports and provides for quality teaching, access to broad and challenging curriculum for all students, closing the achievement gap with high expectations for all, and is committed to using multiple formative measures of success that go beyond standardized achievement tests; and

Their ability to measure influence on a broader definition of student achievement, however, is limited by the degree to which the testing data incorporated in the value - added model correlate with student achievement beyond the test score itself.

Go beyond the job description and share achievements with measured results.

However, there is a lack of consensus and clarity on what outcomes demonstrate achievement of the goal of promoting child well - being, to what extent the child welfare system should be responsible for this goal, and what strategies should be utilized to measure child well - being.79 Given the multiple needs of foster children, it is imperative that the child welfare system move beyond a singular focus on safety and permanency and that it promote the wellbeing of children in custodial care.