Sentences with phrase «level of academic performance»

Students have seats in SDCC's current Summer Bridge program that is designed to increase the level of academic performance in math & English.

Students are expected to achieve a level of academic performance that will enable them to succeed at the nation's best high schools and colleges.

The «honesty gap» between the lofty level of academic performance required for students to succeed in the real world and what state tests say is good enough has closed dramatically in recent years.

And the Success Academy schools, as the SUNY folks note, have demonstrated «some of the highest» levels of academic performance in the state.

Furthermore, in a previous study we demonstrated that group emotional intelligence is related to higher levels of academic performance.»

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

The playbook, written by our adjunct fellow, Heather Staker, draws on findings from a pilot project focused on helping teachers motivate their students to high levels of academic performance.

Indeed, when minority students reach the very highest levels of academic performance, even the number of cross-ethnic friendships declines.

The Legislature recognizes that teachers play a critical role in preparing students to achieve the high levels of academic performance expected by the Sunshine State Standards.

Heterogeneous grouping for core academic classes helps TDS schools reach high levels of academic performance.

Results indicate children whose families participated in the FAST program showed higher levels of academic performance, social skills, and lower levels of aggressive behaviors than those in the FAME program.

Not exact matches

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

He said the academic performance level of students within the Region especially in science is abysmal as compared to their peers in Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra and Brong Ahafo Regions.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said, «The school communities are clearly vested in their success, as exemplified in both the recent progress in academic performance and the level of engagement by the parents, teachers and students to save their schools.»

The authors also offer one recommendation to the Department of Education, which is finalizing its ESSA regulations: Going forward, Washington should allow states to rate academic achievement using a performance index that gives schools additional credit for getting students to an advanced level.

A new study draws attention to the large numbers of Detroit children who have been exposed to lead and establishes a link between blood - lead levels and lower academic performance.

There is no evidence that high school students who enroll in college - level courses such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes improve their academic performance in college unless they take the tests offered at the end of each course, says a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

Students of National Board teachers who exhibited superior academic performance may already have been performing at a high level when they entered class in the fall.

In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.

Academic performance is clearly most important to parents, regardless of their education level or ethnicity.

Moe's findings are similar: academic performance is clearly most important to parents, regardless of their education level or ethnicity.

In most cases, however, student underachievement, particularly in reading, can be identified by testing skills in the academic domain in question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ level.

For instance, are higher levels of performance anxiety in content - centered classrooms due to the focus on academic content or to the personalities of the teachers who defy convention in emphasizing such content?

It also mentions the low level of academic achievement in Detroit schools, including its charters, but the level of performance does not distinguish between the difficulties that children bring to school and the success or failure of schools to improve student performance.

The test - score data were adjusted statistically to account for any observed differences between the two groups, such as level of family income - an important predictor of academic performance - that might have biased the results.

Education World: How would you characterize the level of physical activity necessary to show changes in academic performance?

While the push for higher levels of academic achievement and accountability continues to increase, more people have realized that a single test can not provide a comprehensive evaluation of student performance.

Fifty - one percent of children in public schools live in low - income households, and when poverty levels exceed 50 percent, there's a significant drop in academic performance across all grade levels.

In October 2012, it adopted a new Academic Performance Framework that subjects each of its schools to an annual review based primarily on student achievement levels and growth and clarifies that charters may be revoked well before the 15 - year contract expires.

And Mama and Daddy exhibited a far greater level of engagement and oversight of my academic performance than most.

, sponsored by the Planning and Evaluation Service of the Department of Education, is that when adult mentors read once a week with students who read below grade level, the students» academic performance and classroom behavior improve.

WUHSD's average score on California's Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, with 800 to 1,000 being the desired level of performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and Performance Index (API), which is calculated on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, with 800 to 1,000 being the desired level of performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and is now 777.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

the State designated performance level on a State elementary assessment in social studies administered prior to the 2010 - 2011 school year; provided that beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, at which time a State elementary assessment in social studies shall no longer be administered, a school shall provide academic intervention services when students are determined to be at risk of not achieving State learning standards in social studies pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph;

The highest level of performance, «advanced,» is equivalent to an A +, representing the highest possible academic performance.

The notice shall include a summary of the academic intervention services to be provided to the student, the reason the student needs such services and the consequences of not achieving expected performance levels.

A: No; the SGP compares students of similar academic performance no matter what their current proficiency level.

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Figure 1: School - level correlations of average student social - emotional skills and indicators of academic performance and behavior for CORE district middle schools

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

The Stanford researchers followed student - level performance in schools from the time they open through their fifth year, mapping charters» academic showing against a «static set of performance thresholds» so that academic trends over time could be evaluated.

He stated that charter schools are held to a high level of accountability and argues that a school's academic performance should be the ultimate determination of its fiscal responsibility.

This report focused on the inability of existing evaluation tools to distinguish between different levels of educator performance, finding, among other things, that nearly all teachers were rated as «good» or «great,» even in schools where students failed to meet basic academic standards.

Unlike the process used to identify gifted students, the process to establish a gifted student's present level is simple and basic - the GIEP team needs assess the student well enough to know the student's present levels of educational performance in their academic subjects.