Sentences with phrase «comparisons of academic outcomes»

Those who created these alternative systems were concerned with freedom and religious conviction, not international comparisons of academic outcomes.

Not exact matches

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

For its part, National Alliance said it wants to include more measures of academic outcomes in future years and begin to make comparisons beyond those between charter schools and the public schools located around them.

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article describes the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program [now called FAST ® - Elementary School Level that assessed the social skills, behavior problems, and academic functioning of American Indian children.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study investigated the relationship of the HIPPY program to mother's involvement in education at home and school, students school readiness in kindergarten, and student academic outcomes at 3rd grade.