Sentences with phrase «academic measures»

The report, now in its 6th year, rates schools on their financial and academic measures of performance.

The students in the program are all assessed using traditional academic measures such as local assessments and portfolios.

There are certainly students for whom testing is either inappropriate or whose performance on other academic measures could reasonably indicate that they would be better served by moving on to the next grade.

Asian - American students, on most academic measures, come out on top — whether it's standardized test scores, graduation rates, college - going, or college - degree completion.

Those indicators of success should be as important as conventional academic measures.

Both terms suggest that there are abilities that deserve to be considered as forms of intelligence but that fall well beyond the scope of traditional academic measures.

The school's results are nothing short of superlative: BINcA has consistently bested state averages in academic measures across the board, including post-secondary attendance and graduation rates.

Developed with grants from national foundations, the «performance management framework» will include academic measures, such as student test scores and readiness for graduation, and nonacademic indicators, such as governance and fiscal management.

While NCLB's emphasis on academic measures of success was deemed important, the Obama administration also felt that non-academic measures should be taken into account (this includes social emotional learning or SEL).

Still, we know that a stubborn gap remains between Anglo and minority scores on many academic measures.

The authors investigated the extent to which different academic measures — academic performance, academic growth, graduation, and English language proficiency — would identify similar schools if used independently.

The government must provide greater clarity for parents and students by ensuring the school and college performance tables, for too long now dominated by academic measures, place greater emphasis on technical qualifications and the destinations of students.

The law requires districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.

All the same, DoDEA's diverse population of students hold their own against their public school peers on several academic measures — including standardized assessments — and in many cases outperform them.

Democracy Prep utilizes a sophisticated feedback loop of frequent data collection and analysis including a network - wide dashboard tool, interim assessments, and comparative academic measures to drive effective instruction and decision - making.

The first three indicators — academic achievement measured in an annual assessment, an additional academic measure such as student growth and graduation rates for secondary schools, and an additional academic indicator for presecondary schools — are related to academics, and are holdovers from NCLB.

One central issue for the Chamber will be making sure states continue to heavily weigh academic measures of students success — like test scores and graduation rates — when they rate schools.

Ultimately, three in four states chose chronic absenteeism as their non-academic indicator, but many states adopted «a distinctly academic measure» in the form of college and career readiness.

During Wednesday's event, Hogan argued that the legislation could put hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education funding in jeopardy by failing to emphasize academic measures in their accountability system.

Furthermore, education can't have a simple win / loss record due to its complexity: it should include academic measures, attendance and turnover rates of students and teachers, community involvement, and more.

While we acknowledge school leaders are under great pressure to achieve quantitative results on standardized measures, we urge that educating for the head, heart and hand offers the best potential for success in academic measures.

Educators can use SEL data alongside traditional academic measures to take action and create effective, individualized interventions.

States are required to use test scores and other academic measures to rate schools but can also include other components like student surveys.

The city has had persistently low test scores and lags behind most of the rest of the country on many academic measures.

The PACE report demonstrates that used independently, different academic measures would identify different schools as the lowest performers.

But, of course, when kids do poorly on academic measures, it's often because they're struggling with problems that aren't academic at all — something's happening at home, or they're depressed, or they can't afford glasses, and so on.

• Include in their academic measures English, mathematics, science and history / civics / social studies.

Academic measures were miserable.

«Research shows that a sense of belonging can increase academic performance, in fact, a whole range of academic measures,» Snyder said.

ESSA regulations specify that nonacademic measures can not prevent a school from receiving a CSI designation that would otherwise have been identified using the academic measures.

As with the four academic measures, schools do not often demonstrate low performance on multiple measures simultaneously, and there is a wide range in how the measures identify schools in the bottom 5 percent compared to one another and compared to the summative academic score.

But there is also wide agreement that the academic outcomes considered here are important, so learning how much the reforms contribute to changes in academic measures should also be a key part of the conversation.

Given the difference between the nonacademic and the academic measures, this effectively forces states to assign SQSS indicators very little weight in a summative score, such that they do not change the identification of schools using the academic measures.

The state's lowest - performing schools, based on a series of academic measures, could be taken over and placed under the direction of a reform officer.

During the summer, a number of academic measures are analyzed to identify our priority schools that need additional support.

A spokeswoman for the Education Department, Devora Kaye, said that it was too early to see significant results from the Renewal effort, but that the department saw encouraging signs in improvements in attendance, changes in teachers» practices, and some academic measures.

It «does have some academic measures, but those are focused on where students are at when they get to your schools,» not how the schools are helping students reach higher achievement.

ESSA requires states to develop accountability systems based on four indicators — standardized test results, English language - learner proficiency, graduation rates (or, for elementary and middle schools, another academic measure), plus one nonacademic measure that captures «school quality or student success.»

For elementary and middle schools, these indicators must include: test scores in Reading and Math, English language learner proficiency, at least one academic measure (such as a growth goal), and one non-academic measure.

Applicants not meeting a specific score on the academic measures, as set by the Admissions Committee, are not considered further.

Final decisions are based on academic measures, nonacademic measures, and the behavioral interview.

The evaluation of applicants includes a three - stage process: academic measures, nonacademic measures, and a behavioral interview.

Academic measures include GPA in required pre-veterinary classes, GPA on most recent 45 semester credits of coursework, and results of the GRE.

But this is surely only an academic measure of success, and possibly an abstract one.

In the area of cognitive and academic functioning, NSCAW documented that the majority of foster children scored in the normal range on cognitive and academic measures, although a higher proportion than would be expected in the general population were found to have delayed cognitive development and compromised academic functioning.