Sentences with phrase «indicator of academic outcomes»

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires state accountability systems to include indicators of «school quality and student success» in addition to indicators of academic outcomes.

Not exact matches

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

The studies reviewed in this paper examined academic outcomes, amount and quality of sleep, mental health indicators, attendance, and student alertness.

Accountability systems should measure and reflect this broader vision of learning by using a framework of indicators for school success centered on academic outcomes, opportunity to learn, and engagement and support.

There is a strong desire to expand beyond just academic indicators — including a measure of growth is very important — but including things that are not direct learning outcomes and focus more on environment and other input measures blurs the vision on what we want students to know and be able to do.

While we lack comparable indicators of the public's knowledge of student performance from earlier periods, it seems that the accountability movement has succeeded in ensuring citizens have good information about key academic outcomes.

Student surveys are empirically linked to their academic outcomes, and are a leading indicator of those outcomes.

In his RSCO School Choice Fair field notes, HH expresses concern that ``... the lack of conversations about test scores, despite some critics» view that test scores are not a reliable indicator of a school's quality of education, is concerning as low - income parents might not be aware of the academic outcome produced by the schools that they are choosing for their kids» (HH).

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

«While academic outcome indicators are important, it is equally important to include indicators of student and school conditions that predict outcomes, so that educators have information to use for diagnostic purposes and improvement decisions,» she wrote.

We analyzed all children born in Sweden between 1983 and 2009 to investigate the effect of SDP on multiple indicators of adverse outcomes in three areas: pregnancy outcomes (birth weight, preterm birth and being born small for gestational age), long - term cognitive abilities (low academic achievement and general cognitive ability) and externalizing behaviors (criminal conviction, violent criminal conviction and drug misuse).