Within those successes, there were some surprises such as a school that did better than expected or another that had
strong academic scores but lower scores on other metrics.
Not exact matches
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.»
And the evidence on the importance of teacher
academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test
scores is associated with
strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test
scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.
These
strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test -
score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent
academics.
Additionally, the power of
strong signals of
academic performance — enabled by meaningful grades and test
scores — has greater importance for students trapped in low - performing schools.
This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher
academic motivation,
stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved
academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test
scores).
Existing empirical evidence, however, does not find a
strong role for measured characteristics of teachers — such as teacher experience, education, and test
scores of teachers — in the determination of
academic achievement of students.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math
scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and
stronger than typical impacts on
academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.
This study builds on a previous REL Northwest study that found high school GPA was a
stronger predictor of college
academic performance than
scores on standardized college entrance exams among first - time students at the University of Alaska.
The northwest Tennessee district has maintained a trajectory of increasing
academic expectations for many years, netting
strong gains in math over the last three years and ACT test
scores above the state average.
Rather, students with low test
scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with
stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.
In middle and high schools, students with low test
scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with
stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.
This book makes a
strong case for moving away from using only student
academic assessment
scores as indicators of a school's quality.
For example, high -
scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious
academic standards for all students with a
strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.
The network's
academic strategy has coincided with
strong student test
scores.
Strong progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other sc
Strong progress with high test
scores means students have
strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other sc
strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting
academic growth than most other schools.
Demonstrate a proven record of
strong academic achievement as demonstrated by current
academic transcripts and standardized test
scores
Examining test
scores in all 50 states, David Madland and Nick Bunker find that a
stronger American middle class is associated with higher levels of
academic achievement.
High progress with high test
scores means students have
strong academic skills and the school is a doing an excellent job at supporting
academic growth compared to most other schools.
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.
The experience of KIPP charter schools indicates students with a
stronger academic profile (including higher SAT
scores), but lacking in specific character traits, were more likely to drop out
Excepting
stronger indications of
academic test
scores for general health and mental well - being for the earlier 1958 birth cohort, and of socioeconomic deprivation for the general health of women, differential associations of the childhood measures with adult health are not apparent by gender, or between the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts.
This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher
academic motivation,
stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved
academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test
scores).