Not exact matches
You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set
of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body
of evidence that, when it comes to long - term
academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test
scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.
By the fall
of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group
scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy
skills, reading fluency and
academic performance upon entering kindergarten.
In our two previous research collaborations with the
Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors
of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower
scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health
scores are powerful predictors
of improved
academic outcomes.»
And the evidence on the importance
of teacher
academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test
scores is associated with strong cognitive
skills as measured by SAT or licensure test
scores, or the competitiveness
of the college from which teachers graduate.
RAND II found only small NAEP achievement gains in Texas, similar to those nationwide and contrasting sharply with «soaring»
scores on the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS).
While measures
of teachers» general
academic skills, such as SAT
scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors
of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.
A growing body
of academic research supports the use
of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning
skills, and improve test
scores.
, is the result
of an investigation into whether the dramatic gains in math and reading
scores on the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS) represented actual academic p
Academic Skills (TAAS) represented actual
academic p
academic progress.
This meta - analysis
of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional
skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher
academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved
academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test
scores).
Using a three - arm cluster randomized control trial, we assess the impact
of PC on children's social - emotional
skills (e.g., executive function, emotion regulation, social competence) and
academic outcomes (e.g., literacy, math
scores).
Many achievement tests created and administered at the state level — such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS), or the Virginia Standards
of Learning (SOL) Assessments — use criterion - referenced
scoring.
Individual
scores on the annual Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS) in mathematics and reading and English language arts were used as the measure
of student performance.
Figure 2 shows the correlations between school - average social - emotional
skills and key indicators
of academic performance (GPA and state test
scores) and student behavior (the percentage
of students receiving suspensions and average absence rates) across CORE district middle schools.
Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures
of teachers»
academic skills, such as SAT or ACT
scores, tests
of verbal ability, or the selectivity
of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.
Among the thousands
of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders
of higher education institutions;
scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership
skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.
Student
scores from grades 3 through 8 on the math portion
of the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS) were the focus
of the study.
During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on
academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test
scores), teacher ratings
of behavior (better
academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social
skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).
Through that effort, students» reading
scores on the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAKS) rose, student attendance increased, no at - risk student dropped out, and there were many fewer disciplinary problems.
«Miss Shelly's
skills and hard work has allowed us to exit kids from receiving Title I services, because they have met or exceeded certain benchmarks, test
scores, and other criteria, indicative
of their
academic growth and success.»
Students trained in social and emotional
skills had
academic achievement
scores which were an average
of 11 percentile points higher than those who did not, according to a meta - analysis
of 213 studies (Weissberg, et al., 2015).
For example, high -
scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom
skills; they also combine clear, ambitious
academic standards for all students with a strong degree
of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher,
of the OECD.
Additionally, candidates must submit passing
scores on the National Evaluation Series (NES) Essential
Academic Skills Test and on all areas
of the Minnesota Teacher Licensure Examinations (MTLE).
For example, a meta - analysis
of school - based and afterschool SEL programs found that participation improved elementary and middle school students» test
scores by an average
of 11 to 17 percentile points, decreased conduct problems, and increased students» problem - solving
skills.17 Similarly, a meta - analysis
of school - based SEL programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade found that participation improved students»
academic performance by 11 percentile points, reduced their anxiety and stress, and increased their prosocial behavior.18 These programs were successful in all geographic locations, including urban, suburban, and rural school environments.19
We find that having participated in Texas's targeted pre-K program is associated with increased
scores on the math and reading sections
of the Texas Assessment
of Academic Skills (TAAS), reductions in the likelihood
of being retained in grade, and reductions in the probability
of receiving special education services.
A personal learning plan consists
of student data, personal interests, strengths and weaknesses, credits earned to date, attendance records, state standards yet to be met, a plan for the next five weeks, learning style assessment, their
scores on the Measure
of Academic Progress, levels
of engagement, life
skill assessments, and project credits earned and in progress.
A major influence on high school reform outcomes to date has been the end
of social promotion in elementary schools: students in the third, sixth and eighth grades who do not achieve a minimum
score on the Iowa Test
of Basic
Skills are either retained or sent to
academic preparatory centers.
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The court cited a number
of factors personal to him, including that he had been admitted to practice both in California and before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, had a stellar
academic record and was valedictorian
of his class, had
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of Appeals, had a stellar
academic record and was valedictorian
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scored well on the California bar exam and on the MPRE, and, through his representation
of himself in his admission case, had provided a «positive illustration
of his
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Research also shows that SEL supports an 11 % rise in student
academic scores while mindfulness - based education has been shown to foster the inner
skills of attention, compassion, impulse - control, and executive functioning.
This meta - analysis
of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional
skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher
academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved
academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test
scores).