Sentences with phrase «measure of academic gain»

These data often provide a better measure of academic gain than do state test results, and they accurately reflect the period of time the student was in school.

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Such measures also do nothing to help Chinese journals gain recognition by the rest of the world, as has been described by two colleagues from Zhejiang University in an article entitled «The outflow of academic articles from China: why is it happening and can it be stemmed?».

As a result, in the past decade researchers have grown interested in ways of measuring and comparing the gains in academic achievement that a school or teacher elicits — in other words, a school or teacher's «value added.»

This statistical methodology introduced a new paradigm for predicting student academic progress and comparing the prediction to the contribution of individual teachers (or value added) as measured by student gain scores.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

The impact on gains in language and literacy will be examined using standardized measures of language and reading administered at the fall and spring of the academic year.

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They also measure high on innovation meaning they have a diverse array of school models, and on quality meaning their charter schools are showing strong academic gains.

At Imagine Andrews, we measure the academic performance of our students primarily based on same - student learning gains (i.e., the improvement in student achievement in reading and math measured for the same students from the beginning until the end of each school year).

They found students of compassionate or «high facilitative» teachers made «greater gains on academic achievement measures, including both math and reading scores, and present [ed] fewer disciplinary problems (McEwan 2002, 33 - 34).»

Since 2014, Best Elementary students have achieved steady gains on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in reading, writing, and math, which is measured in Index 1.

According to the California Charter Schools Association, the latest numbers from the Academic Performance Index — the official measure of how well schools are progressing toward state goals — show that 64.4 percent of charter schools achieved gains from 2003 to 2004, compared to 61.1 percent of non-charter schools.

None of the three schools achieved consistent gains over their respective comparison group on measures of academic achievement.

As an elementary and a secondary principal, his schools averaged over 500 % of the required stated academic achievement gains as measured by the state Academic Performancacademic achievement gains as measured by the state Academic PerformancAcademic Performance Index.

As digital textbooks gain popularity around the country, there are still parts of the U.S. and other industrialized nations that do not currently benefit from the obvious advantages of e-reading in academic arenas, which is odd considering that even the textbook publishers are in support of electronic educational content as a cost saving measure.

Existing research on the effectiveness of early childhood programs largely focuses on short - term academic gains when it is long - term benefits that provide a more relevant measure of value.