Sentences with phrase «predictors of the academic achievement»

The 1966 Coleman Report — the granddaddy of education studies — found that the biggest predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of the family a child comes from and the second biggest predictor is the socioeconomic status of the school she attends.

Almost 50 years ago, the congressionally authorized Coleman Report found that the single most important predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of the student's family, with the second most important being the socioeconomic makeup of the school (Coleman et al., 1966).

Predictors of academic achievement and academic self - concept: a longitudinal perspective.

Many of these situations in children's lives happen at school, and it has been shown that EC is an important predictor of academic achievement and social adjustment at school.5 - 7

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This is most concerning because the time a family spends together «eating meals at home [is] the strongest predictor of children's academic achievement and psychological adjustment.»

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

IQ is generally considered a predictor of learning ability, but in this study with students who are intellectually disabled or low IQ, the results showed that IQ didn't always predict academic achievement.

Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen visual discrimination skills, spatial thinking, and the ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects — good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the STEM fields.

Parent involvement is the number one predictor of early literacy success and future academic achievement.

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

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.

First, «the most important predictor of boys» achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects and rewards academic effort,» they write.

As E.D. Hirsch has written, «General knowledge is... the best single predictor of later academic achievement among preschoolers and kindergartners, as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/).

As noted by education professor Vicki Jacobs in her eBook, Vocabulary: The Foundation of Literacy, researchers Bromley (2007) and Graves (2008) found that vocabulary knowledge accounts for much of a student's verbal aptitude, and that a student's verbal prowess is a strong predictor of K — 12 academic achievement.

Chronic absenteeism is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.

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.

According to Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism, the problem is «typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.»

Research shows that chronic absenteeism in schools is a primary cause of low academic achievement and a powerful predictor of which students are at a higher risk for dropping out.

Research shows that chronic absenteeism is a primary cause of low academic achievement and a powerful predictor of which students are at a higher risk...

For example, in «The Forgotten Middle,» ACT researchers conclude that the academic achievement of eighth - graders is a better predictor of college and career readiness than students» academic performance in high school.

Research shows that chronic absenteeism is a primary cause of low academic achievement and a powerful predictor of drop out.

These favorable work conditions are also predictors of higher levels of student growth and improved academic achievement.27 New teachers, especially, can benefit from additional time, tools, and support — possibly provided as part of residency and induction programs — during their critical first years in the classroom.

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).

Since the amount of reading that students do during out - of - school hours is a predictor of their in - school academic achievement, one of the focuses of the evaluations was the percentage of students that had accessed the programs outside of school (since the solutions are cloud - based, students could access them anytime or anywhere — even without an internet connection).

Chronic absenteeism impacts as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school drop out.

Measuring Academic Performance: The Case for Focusing on Grades Despite all the attention to standardized tests, a growing body of research shows that achievement test scores are not strong predictors of whether students will graduate from high school or college.

Predictors included one - time measures of socioeconomic status, parental antisocial behavior, and time - varying measures of parental transitions, parental monitoring, deviant peer association, and the boys» antisocial / delinquent behavior, substance use, physical maturation, academic achievement, and anxiety.

«The best predictor of whether a child will become a satisfied adult is not their academic achievement but their emotional health in childhood».

It's also a form of «sensitive caregiving,» which, research suggests, is a strong predictor of an individual's social competence and academic achievement, not only during childhood and adolescence, but all the way through to adulthood (Science Daily, 2014).

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.

[jounal] Schwartz, D. / 2008 / Peer relationships and academic achievement as interacting predictors of depressive symptoms during middle childhood / Journal of Abnormal Psychology 117 (2): 289 ~ 299