Sentences with phrase «of academic skill»

The development of social competence is as much an educational responsibility as is the development of academic skill.

Tests are designed to align with state proficiency standards, [10] which in many states require a fairly low level of academic skill.

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

What makes a theological school theological is neither the cultivation of academic skills nor the cultivation of practical capacities.

She may lose some of her academic skills if she isn't intellectually challenged during the summer.

Finally, on top of academic skills, working in industry requires the right kind of attitude towards work, she suggests, namely to be open and willing to learn on the job.

The Academic Assessment — Over the course of this standardized academic achievement test, it becomes clear which types of academic skills are strong and which are weak and, further highlights the corresponding areas of the brain that are affected.

This growing importance of academic skills learned in schools holds not only for graduates who went to college, but also for those who did not.

Currently, the student - level high - stakes test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), is administered in the 10th grade and includes 8th - grade - level math, reading, and writing.

Most surprising for Greaves has been the depth and richness of the conversation among peers and the students» use of academic skills.

At the center of these efforts is the statewide standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), administered to public school children in grades 3 to 10.

The dilemma had arisen after some 8,100 high - school seniors failed to answer correctly at least 60 percent of the questions on the mathematics portion of the revamped Texas Assessment of Academic Skills.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

By design, we move students forward grade by grade based largely on the amount of instructional hours they have spent in class — dubbed «seat time» — rather than their mastery of academic skills and content.

Beginning in 1993, Texas schools have administered the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) each spring to eligible students in grades 3 through 8.

In 1995 one - fourth of 5th graders and one - third of 6th graders in Houston failed the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in reading.

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).

Seeking to overcome «senioritis,» the board that oversees the nation's benchmark of academic skills is studying ways to encourage 12th graders to take the tests more seriously, from forming partnerships with corporations to using celebrities in promotional pitches.

Demanding accountability for results and measuring achievement with the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a criterion - referenced assessment — actually, a rather blunt instrument — has spurred significant improvement in student achievement.

Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.

President Bush proposes to refocus Head Start on the teaching of academic skills.

, 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 progress.

It is based mainly on student performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), which is administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and in grade 10.

While we want students to develop greater self - control and the ability to delay gratification, assisting them in the mastery of academic skills requires that we chop some tasks into smaller chunks and help students overcome procrastination by offering shorter - term rewards.

This is also a time of structured reflection, analysis, and synthesis of academic skills with TCEC's survival skills.

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.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

The acquiring of academic skills, including, notably, a big vocabulary, consists of building efficient mental systems that enable us, despite this very constrained bottleneck, to perform huge feats of analysis and synthesis.

The acquiring of academic skills, including a big vocabulary, consists of building efficient mental systems that enable us to perform huge feats of analysis and synthesis.

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.

These are the competencies every student around the world should gain in school in the 21st century, the blend of academic skills and character, of self - knowledge and leadership, of complex thinking, communications, creativity and capacity to solve problems which are essential to participate in complex societies and to face the rapidly evolving challenges of our times.

By the time Risk was published in 1983, cognitive psychology had achieved a degree of consensus about the fundamental nature of academic skills.

These two groups of students are nearly identical in terms of academic skills and other characteristics, but differ in the extent to which they were exposed to this new approach to algebra.

Foreign Language — Spanish Task Force Myriam Met (chair) Coordinator, foreign languages Division of Academic Skills Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools

Skeptics of eliminating failing grades must acknowledge that, in our current system, we move students forward grade by grade based largely on «seat time» rather than mastery of academic skills and content.

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.

BART prepares all students for success in college by promoting the mastery of academic skills through a rigorous, individualized program.

Since the goal of LSW isn't creating grammatically correct content, the strategy can be used to improve a variety of academic skills.

BART Charter Public School (BART) prepares students for college by promoting mastery of academic skills and content with a strong foundation in arts and technology.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

Most importantly, they noted that the loss of academic skills during the summer slide was cumulative:

Often students with disabilities will not have the skill set their same aged peers have, and will need to have the components scaffolded to help them move on to an age appropriate set of academic skills.

Cooperative learning is a teaching method used to teach a variety of academic skills.

Its method of instructions awakens a natural desire of learning in each of the students and simultaneously equipping them with a sound foundation of academic skills and knowledge.

State researchers have chosen to define adequacy based on selected student outcomes — more specifically on the number of students passing tests that were part of the old state testing system, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

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.

The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs and MTAS) Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) and alternate assessment, Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS), are the statewide tests that help districts measure student progress toward Minnesota's academic standards and meet the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Teachers save time by providing science instruction while fostering a wide range of academic skills, from reading and writing to abstract thinking and quantitative reasoning.

2012 - 2013 for grades 3 - 8 reading (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments and Minnesota Test of Academic Skills)

It is time to move the writing processes required of students toward electronically created and connected texts that bridge student interests and expertise with the development of academic skills (Wilber, 2007).