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
New Study Finds High School Grades Are More
Predictive of College
Academic Performance than Standardized Tests A new study
of students enrolled in the University
of Alaska system found that high school grade point average (GPA) was a better predictor
of students» success in college - level courses than standardized college entrance exams.