Target students were observed to assess their levels of academic engagement, and all eight students showed higher
rates of academic engagement under the CWPT condition.
Not exact matches
The authors said that the difficulty
of retaining students may be a factor more complicated than SAI allows for, noting that improving retention
rates requires significant campus resources to address a broad range
of factors, including student
engagement levels,
academic support services, campus climate, student satisfaction, and financial aid.
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.
A growing body
of research connects skills like responsible decision - making and recognizing and responding to emotions with greater
engagement in the classroom and improved
academic outcomes such as higher graduation
rates.
The recognition award is part
of a larger U.S. Department
of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student
engagement, higher
academic achievement and graduation
rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal
of increasing energy independence and economic security.
During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on
academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher
ratings of behavior (better
academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).
States will now have the responsibility
of designing an accountability framework incorporating and giving the most weight to
academic factors, including student performance on state assessments and high school graduation
rates, in addition to state - chosen indicators
of school quality or student success, which can include measures
of educator
engagement and school climate / safety.
Generalizability and dependability
of behavior assessment methods to estimate
academic engagement: A comparison
of systematic direct observation and direct behavior
rating
An investigation
of the generalizability and dependability
of direct behavior
rating single item scales (DBR - SIS) to measure
academic engagement and disruptive behavior
of middle school students.
A total
of 4 raters, including 2 teachers and 2 research assistants, used Direct Behavior
Rating Single Item Scales (DBR - SIS) to measure the
academic engagement and disruptive behavior
of 7 middle
Generally, these programs can be school - or community - based and are aimed at increasing school
engagement, school attachment, and the
academic performance
of middle and high school students, with the main objective
of reducing
rates of dropout and increasing graduation
rates.