Sentences with phrase «of academic outcome measures»

In both the fall and spring, the researchers collected three types of academic outcome measures from youth and staff, including reading skills, youth perceptions of their academic abilities, and academic engagement.

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In most families, there was no significant impact of the home visits on the children's mental development or school outcomes, but in families where mothers scored especially low on measures of intelligence and mental health, children's academic performance did improve.

The pervasive associations found between breastfeeding and measures of cognitive ability and academic achievement were, in part, explained by the fact that the outcomes described in Table 1 were all significantly correlated.

These measures were chosen on the basis of being known to be associated with the mother's breastfeeding history and / or with the cognitive and academic outcomes.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

The dataset included measures of students» academic competence, specifically test scores in math and reading, as well as psychosocial outcomes.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

We have shown that, despite their limitations, aggregate measures of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related academic and behavioral outcomes.

Arne Duncan, the new U.S. secretary of education, got this right in Chicago when he made «student connection» one of four outcomes that need to be measured in his school improvement plan efforts alongside student outcomes, academic progress, and school characteristics.

Accountability systems should measure and reflect this broader vision of learning by using a framework of indicators for school success centered on academic outcomes, opportunity to learn, and engagement and support.

Specifically, her research investigates effective ways to measure bilingualism in schools, the relevance of knowledge on bilingualism and executive functions to language and literacy outcomes, and the relationship between academic outcomes and quality and quantity of bilingual experience.

There is a strong desire to expand beyond just academic indicators — including a measure of growth is very important — but including things that are not direct learning outcomes and focus more on environment and other input measures blurs the vision on what we want students to know and be able to do.

An inspection involves an assessment of a school's performance on academic and other measured outcomes, followed by an onsite visit to the school, typically lasting one or two days for primary schools.

The Campbell Collaboration's registry contains at least 50 entries on analogous trials in which conventional measures of academic achievement were the main outcome variable.

Yet school districts and schools that are investing in interventions for and measures of grit seem convinced that academic outcomes for their students will be substantially improved.

In particular, she has established a research program investigating: (1) effective ways to measure bilingualism in schools; (2) how bilingualism and executive functions interact to influence language and literacy outcomes; and (3) relationship between academic outcomes, quality and quantity of bilingual experience.

Dr. Kurt Beron, a UT Dallas professor of economics and public policy, and Dan O'Brien, UT Dallas economics lecturer, worked with comptroller staff to develop new academic outcome measures based on scores from standardized tests.

Finally, the intended outcomes of inclusive education are beyond just academic, and these are difficult to measure.

• an interest in valid measures of student engagement — although systems focus on academic outcomes, some try to capture school culture as well.

To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch programs, a standard measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.

Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center has found student perceptions to be linked to academic outcomes, and a recent synthesis of 15 years of research found that a healthy school climate — often measured through surveys — can help close the achievement gap.

The research reviewed for this study suggests that ELs who receive some kind of language support or specialized instruction show better outcomes on various academic measures than those who receive no special support.

The summative evaluation of two years of the Arts for Academic Achievement (AAA) program examines student learning outcomes of arts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tests.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

We determined that in order to assess school quality, and thus the academic performance of its programs, we would need to measure student outcomes.

Give guidelines for measuring the student learning outcomes of those under novice teachers, including academic performance.

Principal Patrick McGillicuddy asked Eskolta to help department heads take a deeper look, and in 2013, the Eskolta team evaluated nearly 250 outcomes from a sample of classes in four disciplines to see which academic skills and abilities were measured by each individual standard.

These ratings combine measures of academic performance and student outcomes to distinguish between high and low performing schools and to identify those in need of extra help.

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

By using performance metrics that actually measure academic achievement and cost - effectiveness and by observing student outcomes, the documentary shows clearly that a headline «87 percent of students earn high school diploma, «even though correct, should be rewritten «given high school diploma»:

Learn how these general outcome measures of basic academic skills can compliment your current standards - based assessments.

For its part, National Alliance said it wants to include more measures of academic outcomes in future years and begin to make comparisons beyond those between charter schools and the public schools located around them.

This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

For example, test scores represent one measure of important academic outcomes, but they have become an unhealthy obsession.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

Such research, in particular, might investigate to what extent teacher arts integration professional development outcomes are statistically linked to student arts learning and to what extent measures of student arts or arts integration learning predict academic performance?

«Two years in, and student performance on academic outcome measures were bad in every single area — but lawmakers still lifted the cap on how many students can participate, in spite of those negative outcomes.»

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passagOf course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passagof - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passagof Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.

Earlier State efforts at defining and measuring learning outcomes have not yielded much progress, thus compelling the GoI to commit to the development of a learning outcomes policy that will be applied to both government and private schools (note: state academic standards in the U.S. apply only to public school systems).

While there are many important aspects to measuring the performance of a charter school, CCSA believes student academic outcomes should be the single most important measure of a school's success at the time of charter renewal or replication.

Former LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who stepped down in January, voiced his support for CORE's approach, saying in December, «We have known for a long time that academic performance is one of many factors that make a great school, but CORE districts are now serving as a model for how we can actually measure these factors and look more holistically at school outcomes.»

This work argues the importance of the noncognitive for student life outcomes, reviews the little we know about how to improve student academic perseverance and mindset, and raises questions about our nation's current measures of teacher effectiveness.

Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice collected the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

Schools should also enact systems and structures to track and continuously improve social - emotional learning practice and outcomes such as measures of school climate, student behavior, and academic achievement.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article describes the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program [now called FAST ® - Elementary School Level that assessed the social skills, behavior problems, and academic functioning of American Indian children.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study investigated the relationship of the HIPPY program to mother's involvement in education at home and school, students school readiness in kindergarten, and student academic outcomes at 3rd grade.

Yet school districts and schools that are investing in interventions for and measures of grit seem convinced that academic outcomes for their students will be substantially improved.