Sentences with phrase «predictor of academic outcomes»

«We know it is the number one or number two leading predictor of academic outcomes.

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She found that grit, not intelligence or academic achievement, was the most reliable predictor of a positive outcome.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In the meta - analysis, grit accounts for about 3 percent of the variance in academic achievement outcomes when it is examined as a single predictor.

Research demonstrates that family mealtimes are a strong predictor of positive physical, social, emotional and academic outcomes for children and their families.

The report, written by Mathematica's Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang, goes on to say that value - added estimates «in a given year are still fairly strong predictors of subsequent - year academic outcomes in the teachers» classes.»

Student engagement is critical to academic success; researchers have found that student engagement is one of the strongest predictors of student outcomes and is highly correlated with academic achievement.

Reach has as its core mission the improvement of student achievement outcomes as predictors of success in college or career in the 21st century, bringing attention to high - leverage instructional practices, including LDC, that empower teachers with effective practices, and a focus on a set of core habits (student engagement, academic learning behaviors, differentiation, intentionality, data analysis, and language and thinking development).

Inter-correlations among the intersections between teacher and student outcome variables were also subjected to factor analysis achieved through step-wise regression modeling techniques to determine the most potent predictors of student arts and academic learning outcomes.

We focus on these outcomes in kindergarten because academic skills and behaviors at that time point are strong predictors of educational trajectory.10 We hypothesized that ACEs in the birth - to - age - 5 time period would be associated with poor teacher - reported academic skills including emergent literacy and behavior difficulties.

In the meta - analysis, grit accounts for about 3 percent of the variance in academic achievement outcomes when it is examined as a single predictor.

Challenges for the young pre-schooler about to enter kindergarten have been well documented.3, 4,5 What makes this an especially important developmental transition period is the consistent evidence for a «trajectory hypothesis» in both middle - class and low - income samples: how children fare academically and socially in early elementary school is a strong predictor of their academic, social, and mental health outcomes throughout high school.6, 7,8 These findings imply that interventions to improve the child's relative standing at school entrance could have long - term payoff.