Sentences with phrase «objective measures of academic achievement»

At 72 months, teachers reported on children's externalizing behaviors, and children completed objective measures of academic achievement.

Although Nansel et al found important evidence regarding the potential detrimental effects of bullying on self - perceived academic achievement and school attendance, no objective measures of academic achievement or attendance were collected.

That experience taught us that an accountability formula should reflect only objective measures of academic achievement.

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Recent government education policies seem to assume that academic achievement as measured by test scores is the primary objective of public education.

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).

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

Under the ruling, those measures can take a variety of forms, from simple — such as using a schoolwide gauge of academic achievement — to complex: «student learning objectives,» or SLOs, that are set individually by each teacher.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

Early measures of executive functions and self - regulation predict academic achievement in reading and mathematics better than IQ16 and also behavioural adjustment and well - being in the classroom, empathy, moral reasoning and prosocial behaviour.17 Promoting learning - related self - regulation, therefore, should be a core objective in early childhood programs.