The MET report considered this exact issue and concluded that «Teachers with high value - added on state tests tend to promote
deeper conceptual understanding as well.»
Not exact matches
In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «
deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the
understanding of Revelation from the
conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation
as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».
As a result, at least for many Christians, the
deeper dimensions of their psychic makeup have often had little resonance with their vision of God, even though their
conceptual understanding may have appeared
Research finds that students who are engaged with content in
deep ways while developing
conceptual understanding are better able to develop skills in specific areas, such
as math or language development.Yoshikawa et al., Investing in Our Future.
The Common Core State Standards expect students to demonstrate
deep conceptual understanding through the application of content knowledge and skills in new situations; however, «the specific content standards provide limited guidance
as to how, when, or to what degree...
Data from student test scores should be used by schools to move students to mastery and a
deep conceptual understanding of key concepts
as well
as to inform instruction, target remediation, and to focus review efforts.
Morgan theorizes that, just
as children need to practice reading a lot and become fluent readers before they can analyze texts, math students need to become fluent with basic operations before they can talk about multiple methods for solving problems or arrive at
deep conceptual understandings.
As has been well - documented for both children and their teachers, opportunities for reflecting upon practice enriches
conceptual understanding, and
deeper conceptual understanding improves practice (Bransford, 2000).
Our Alabama College and Career Ready Standards relate primarily to what students will learn and because the standards emphasize reasoning and problem - solving skills
as well
as developing
deep conceptual understanding the implications for instruction are transformative.
A much more effective mantra would be to adopt «problem solving» approaches
as this emphasizes the problem, the problem clarification, the notion of success that comes from resolving problems and asks for a better balance between surface,
deep, and
conceptual understandings.
From 2017, the top grade will be much harder to achieve and will require
deep conceptual understanding of a broad range of mathematical topics,
as well
as strong reasoning and problem - solving skills.
Research finds that students who are engaged with content in
deep ways while developing
conceptual understanding are better able to develop skills in specific areas, such
as math or language development.Yoshikawa et al., Investing in Our Future.