Sentences with phrase «rigorous entrance requirements»

The use of these models allows researchers to control for potential selection biases of the Fellowship's rigorous entrance requirements, as well as other potential sources of bias.

the 2014 PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools shows that American favor improving teaching quality in a variety of ways — board certification, longer practice teaching, and more rigorous entrance requirements for colleges of education.

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In 2013, the average minimum GPA requirement for entrance into such a program offering a bachelor's degree in education was 2.6.9 This requirement is well below the 3.24 average GPA of the students who are actually admitted into teacher preparation programs, 10 demonstrating that programs are not adopting rigorous selection processes.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

Odysseyware courses are submitted regularly for review and approval in meeting rigorous criteria, such as those requirements addressed as part of the University of California «a-g» course approval process for meeting college entrance requirements.