Sentences with phrase «more language proficiency»

Additionally, students who score higher over time seem to have mastered the construct, when in reality they only gained more language proficiency.

Not exact matches

There are memorials to General Nelson Miles the Indian fighter, Major Archie Butts, a military aide to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Taft who sank with the Titanic, and even more obscurely, U.S. Marine Commandant George Barnett and General Hugh Scott, honored for his proficiency in «Indian sign language.»

According to a study conducted by Stanford University researchers and published in Psychological Science in 2013, toddlers who are exposed to more words at a young age have a larger vocabulary and better language proficiency later on.

The New York state court system is required to provide interpreters for anyone with limited English proficiency, but is struggling to keep up with the ever growing demand for more languages.

Research indicates that children from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) have fallen more than six months behind their more advantaged cohorts in language processing and proficiency skills by the time they are two years old.

Although, when enlightened on the meaning of STEM, more than two thirds (68 %) of parents stated that proficiency in tech is as necessary a life skill as budgeting or learning to cook, when it came down to the crunch 63.7 % of parents said that they'd rather their kids learned to speak a new language, than learned to code.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

Weighting the «English language proficiency» index more heavily for schools with many English language learners.

We also need to hear much more about creating increased opportunities for students to learn other languages, starting in early grades, so they may have sufficient opportunities to reach high levels of communicative proficiency and intercultural competence.

Because math and science concepts tend to be more concrete, they can be communicated more readily through hands - on activities, which help students in developing language proficiency and conceptual understanding.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) takes a more comprehensive approach to assessing school quality than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), moving beyond NCLB's focus on annual test performance to also consider factors like student academic growth, graduation rates, and rates of proficiency for English language learners.

This publication describes this new effort as a campaign across California to develop strong, articulated, equitably accessible preschool through high school programs and learning opportunities that will prepare students with high level proficiency in two or more languages.

«Together we hope to inspire the development of strong dual language programs, multiple opportunities and comprehensive pathways enabling all students to reach the goal of high levels of proficiency in two or more languages,» explained Xilonin Cruz - Gonzalez, President of Californians Together.

I know more through the ELP Standards about how ELLs progress toward English language proficiency and achieving college and career readiness.

In order to ensure equitable outcomes, emerging instruction and assessment systems must accommodate substantive student diversity and sensitivity to racial, ethnic and cultural differences, learning styles, language proficiency, and more.

Bilingual programs have been proven to be more effective than English immersion only for English learners in both their English language proficiency and academic content.

In fact, it [phonemic awareness] is a better predictor than more global measures such as IQ or general language proficiency.

Improving outcomes for ELLs continues to be an important topic in education and even more so as of late, as federal requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) require an English language proficiency (ELP) indicator in all state plans.

Chinese - speaking ELLs reached English - language proficiency in greater numbers and more rapidly than Spanish - speaking ELLs across all four language programs.

Previously, students without English language proficiency used a paper - based assessment tool which was much more time - intensive for both the student to take and for ScholarCentric to score, thus delaying the reporting of school and district - wide results.

In just about every classroom, teachers find students with a wide range of exceptionalities — students with one or more learning problems, students with various degrees of English language proficiency, students with different interests, students who are very advanced, and students without a «label» but whose learning needs are just as unique.

When you then pull out the data for English language learners (New York City district public schools have more than three times as many), the New York City district public school test performance becomes stronger, and surpasses the proficiency rate for charter schools — 50 percent vs. 46 percent.

-- More Utah students gained proficiency in math and science while English language arts proficiency levels held steady, according to results from 2016 Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) annual assessment released by the Utah State Board of Education.

SALT LAKE CITY — More Utah students gained proficiency in math and science while English language arts proficiency levels held steady, according to results from 2016 Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) annual assessment released by the Utah State Board of Education.

Learn more about how visualizing math can guide students at all language proficiency levels to deeply understand mathematical concepts and thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Your learners are striving to become more comfortable with the basics of American culture while also working toward English - language proficiency.

«We hope to inspire the development of strong dual language programs, multiple opportunities and comprehensive pathways enabling all students to reach the goal of high levels of proficiency in two or more languages, fully qualified to earn the Seal of Biliteracy» explained Magaly Lavadenz, President of Californians Together.

For more than 30 years, we've worked with international universities, global English learning centers, and US state departments of education to develop custom English language proficiency (ELP) assessments.

U.S. Department of Education initiatives - including Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind Act - have helped drive the work of ELPA21 to guide states toward more meaningful assessment of English language proficiency.

A report from the National High School Center at AIR and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) found that ninth grade course performance is more predictive of high school graduation for English language learners (ELLs) in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) than other ELL - specific indicators, including English language proficiency level and whether students experienced interruptions in their education.

This data, prepared by Garden Grove Unified District, shows the district's overall increase in the percentage of students completing the a-g requirements (necessary for entrance to the UC / CSU system) over the past three years, as well as an indication that completion of a-g requirements is now more aligned to students» math and English / language arts (ELA) proficiency levels on the CST.

It would be simple to differentiate the vocabulary and sentence structures that students are working on for a classroom with a wider range of language proficiency levels by intentionally pairing students and adding more phrase strips.

AB 815 (Brownley) established the state Seal of Biliteracy Program to recognize high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading and writing in one or more languages in addition to English.

Another study shows that second language learners with limited English proficiency can do as well as more proficient students on reading comprehension tasks when they do prereading activities that activate and extend the background knowledge pertinent to the tasks.

Writing code takes more than just proficiency with the coding language, it requires logical thinking, problem - solving, integrating different technology, and having a broad understanding of information systems.

Some companies may prefer to hire locals but many businesses require English, French and German speakers, so if you can offer proficiency in one or more of these languages you'll stand a better chance.

This may include proficiency in using Ms - office software packages, software programming languages and many more.

Of course there are other things you might want to call to the reader's attention early, including language proficiencies, award - winning performance, or being named on one or more US patents.

Effective September 1, 2017, new licensing course students and those licensing students who have not already satisfied the language proficiency requirements must meet a more comprehensive standard of English proficiency by demonstrating their competence in reading, writing, speaking and listening.