Sentences with phrase «on academic achievement tests»

According to the findings, children of homeowners are likely to perform higher on academic achievement tests; tend to have fewer behavioral problems in school; and are less likely to become pregnant teenagers.

Charles Hillman and Darla Castelli, professors of kinesiology and community health, have found that physical activity may increase students» cognitive control — or ability to pay attention — and also result in better performance on academic achievement tests.

The research, led by Charles Hillman, a professor of kinesiology and community health and the director of the Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory at Illinois, suggests that physical activity may increase students» cognitive control — or ability to pay attention — and also result in better performance on academic achievement tests.

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With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

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The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Although the difference was slight, high - income children outperformed their less wealthy peers on both IQ tests and an exam designed to replicate achievement in various academic subjects.

Furthermore, these differences also correlated with one measure of academic achievement — performance on standardized tests.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

For the most part, he says, the past decade of research on the accountability movement in education has focused on two things: whether or not the tests increased academic achievement, and how high - stakes testing has led to certain behaviors such as teaching to the test or manipulating the data.

The GRC compares academic achievement in math and reading across all grades of student performance on state tests with average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered economic peers of the U.S..

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement tTest, the state's standardized achievement testtest.

The article continued, «Rigorous testing that decides whether students graduate, teachers win bonuses, and schools are shuttered... does little to improve achievement and may actually worsen academic performance and dropout rates, according to the largest study ever on the issue.»

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).

A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.

The goal is literally to double or triple education results — to increase from 30 percent the number of students who perform proficiently on tests of academic achievement to 60 and then 90 percent.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Researcher's Goal: An Admissions Process That Rewards «Ethical Character» Chronicle for Higher Education, 10/4/15 «The project grew from the worry that many teenagers, focused on academic achievement and their own success, have too little concern for others and the world beyond their test - prep manuals.

But our policies — especially school - level accountability and test - based teacher evaluations — focus on academic achievement alone.

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).

Yet NCLB left the biggest decision of all to the states: how high to set their standards of academic achievement and the passing levels on their tests.

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.

The biggest damage to science instruction in the last decade is the concentration on «academic achievement» as measured by standardized tests for Math and ELA.

New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing the change in his or her achievement on the state standardized assessment from one year to the student's «academic peers» (all other students in the state who had similar historical test results).

The finding that family financial support enhances academic achievement in the form of test scores is consistent with other research on the impact of the EITC showing impacts on later outcomes such as college enrollment.

These include substantial spending to boost student achievement in urban schools, networks of charter schools as alternatives in urban public districts, and academic benchmarks on standardized tests for schools as well as students.

Schools such as Wilbur shine under the current measure of academic success — the all - important Academic Performance Index — based on students» achievement level on standardizeacademic success — the all - important Academic Performance Index — based on students» achievement level on standardizeAcademic Performance Index — based on students» achievement level on standardized tests.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score gains in classrooms run by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.

At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.»

Poring over school records, he noted a pattern of significantly higher scores on tests of academic achievement and cognitive ability, including IQ tests, up to four years after the program's end.

Second, given the potential concerns about schools cherry - picking students and other concerns with high - stakes testing, it's worth looking at other evidence on academic achievement.

Lastly, NCLB «s promise of a substantial increase in student academic achievement has not been materialized, and the law's pressure on teachers to raise test scores has backfired into resentment of federal involvement in schooling.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Marisa Castellano and Kirsten Sundell, co-principal investigators of the Rigorous Tests of Student Outcomes in CTE Programs of Study project, are wrapping up the fourth and final year of data collection for their study of the effects of POS / career pathways on student academic and technical achievement.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

The New York City Department of Education's stunning announcement that it intends to release teacher ratings based on student test scores and academic achievement is the latest example of a growing national movement to fix our country's broken public education system...

There was a positive improvement in academic performance on state and national achievement tests.

Gaps must be closed on the significant academic, personal and social outcomes that society wants for its children — not only on standardized tests — and on the social and school «inputs» that powerfully shape school achievement.

In addition, children who received substantial instruction in the RCCP curriculum performed significantly better on standardized academic achievement tests than other children.

To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and other academic achievement data.

Moreover, even if the CSTs were not norm - referenced tests, students currently have no incentive to response to the best of their abilities on the tests and, therefore, there is no guarantee that their responses are indicative of their true academic achievements.