Sentences with phrase «measure academic effort»

To measure academic effort, we rely on teachers» evaluations of students» classroom behavior and attitudes.

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The German academic behind the research decided to investigate by searching through all available studies that measured subjects» programming ability, personality traits, and intelligence, gathering 19 such studies for his efforts.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

Cognitive ability and academic effort are measured in 10th grade.

Arne Duncan, the new U.S. secretary of education, got this right in Chicago when he made «student connection» one of four outcomes that need to be measured in his school improvement plan efforts alongside student outcomes, academic progress, and school characteristics.

«Many schools have given kids grades for academic performance and grades for effort, and there are lots of practices that reflect a recognition of the importance of skills not directly measured by tests.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Such programs seem to encourage teachers to focus their work efforts on the areas of student performance that are being measured — primarily the core academic areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading.

Measures of achievement, cognitive ability, and academic effort are standardized at each wave to have a mean of 0 and SD of 1.

Every other potential quality metric tested in this survey far surpasses testing as a measure of school quality: having extracurricular activities, art and music classes, advanced academic classes, technology and engineering classes, and efforts to develop students» interpersonal skills.

Measures of persistence — how far students go in school — will of course miss the more subtle forms of academic effort.

Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement about using students» academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.

The Academic Performance Framework (APF) was developed in an effort to combine school progress, achievement and culture data into one overall measure of school performance.

«NCLB asked states and districts to focus their efforts on interventions for students in Title I schools that were failing or at risk of failing the state's academic achievement standards, as measured by annual assessments.

In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as Academic Growth over Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student achievement.

Texas ASCD's Whole Child approach is an effort to move from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement as measured by test scores in core subjects to a broader definition that promotes the long - term development and success of all children.

The third component was local flexibility in organizing capacity to determine how best to meet the academic expectations.1 This structure of clear goals (standards), measures (assessments), and incentives (accountability) at the state level, combined with implementation autonomy, fit with our historical conceptions of education as a local effort.

Earlier State efforts at defining and measuring learning outcomes have not yielded much progress, thus compelling the GoI to commit to the development of a learning outcomes policy that will be applied to both government and private schools (note: state academic standards in the U.S. apply only to public school systems).

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is spearheading an effort to develop the best method to measure SEL.

Since 2009, CCSA's Member Council has led CCSA's accountability advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating charter schools, including the development of CCSA's Accountability Framework that sets Minimum Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of charter Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of charter academic performance of charter schools.

To that end, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning — better known as CASEL — has spearheaded the effort to evaluate and measure the positive effects of social and emotional learning programs.

In particular, I examine links between self - regulation and academic achievement from early childhood to adulthood, recent advances in measuring self - regulation, and intervention efforts to improve these skills in young children.