Sentences with phrase «of academic language among»

Generating knowledge of academic language among urban middle school students.

Not exact matches

He often uses language which is highly unusual in the house of representatives (e.g. calling people crazy), which not only draws a lot of attention from the media, but is also a way to communicate clearly with his voters («look at me speaking plain language among these out - of - touch academic elites»).

Part of a package of certification tests introduced in the 2013 - 2014 academic year, the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) was intended to ensure strong language skills among aspiring instructors across thacademic year, the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) was intended to ensure strong language skills among aspiring instructors across thAcademic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) was intended to ensure strong language skills among aspiring instructors across the state.

Despite its initially rather forbidding weightiness, and its overall academic tone, this work has already generated much discussion among deaf people and students of deaf language, so achieving one of its primary objectives.

«For the first time in this country, we have agreement among 45 states and D.C. on a set of language arts and mathematics standards, which is critical in allowing us to share a common focus and implement a far more rigorous academic environment.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional intervention in academic science among 5th grade English language learners (ELLs) after one year of placement in comparison to the typical science instruction in the district where the larger research project is being implemented.

This study examined development of academic, language, and social skills among 4 - year - olds in publicly supported prekindergarten (pre-K) programs in relation to 3 methods of measuring pre-K quality,

Courses will examine first and second language development; second language literacy development, assessment, and instruction; successful approaches to assessing and teaching oral language and content skills including designs for differentiating instruction according to students» levels of language proficiency; and the multiple factors that influence academic achievement among this student population.

Some school officials also criicized the state's method of calculating a school's academic achievement peer rank, which required averaging two averages — taking an average of schools» percentile ranks among their peers in language arts and their percentile ranks for math.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

The middle school received the ELPA Excellence Award for achieving the highest English language and academic growth among English learners and the highest academic achievement for English learners who transition out of the English language proficiency program.

I'm tempted to say either Rupert CrossAs Tony Honoré put it in the DNB «Cross was unusual among English academic lawyers in the degree to which he spoke the language of judges and practitioners without sacrificing scholarly rigour or theoretical insight.

Among the first few hundred to be posted is a same - language subtitle projectFor an academic analysis of SLS, see Reading Out of the «Idiot Box»: Same - Language Subtitling on Television in India.

The prevalence of specific learning disoder across the academic domains of reading, writing, and mathematics is 5 % -15 % among school - age children across different languages and cultures.

In particular, her research interests focus on language and literacy development of dual language learners, and the relation between the classroom context and academic and socioemotional outcomes among children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.