These lessons address more than standards: They focus on many of the soft skills we know are critical
for student success in college, career, and life — skills such as being able to collaborate, create, solve problems, communicate effectively, and persevere in tasks.
While online course - taking is both prevalent and growing, especially in non-selective higher education institutions, relatively little evidence has examined how taking a course online instead of in person
affects student success in college.
Township High School District 214 Superintendent David Schuler — who also currently serves as president of AASA, the School Superintendents Association — and his colleagues have conducted an extensive review of the work of leading research institutions to find out what really
predicts student success in college or career.
These courses are developed by Utah teachers and community experts to support teaching the Utah Core Standards; building deep content knowledge in science to support instruction; and effective teaching strategies that are best practice to help
support student success in college and career.
Rigorous academic standards are important
for student success in college and career, but views differ on whether standards should be developed at the federal or state level.
The Community College Research Center has found that the placement tests commonly used at colleges across the country are not strongly predictive
of student success in college - level courses.
In 2015, Trinity College developed a test - optional policy that allows application readers to get to know the applicant well beyond just their grades and test scores.This change in policy stemmed from growing research in the area of non-cognitive skills, which leads us to believe that there are alternative factors, besides just standardized test scores, class rank, grades, and essays, that are essential to understanding
potential student success in college and later in life.
«Online and Hybrid Instruction and
Student Success in College: Evidence from Community Colleges in Two States.»
But they're still not achieving at the levels that will ensure
their students success in college and an on - ramp into the middle class.
The course also develops essential habits of mind necessary for
student success in college, including independence, productive persistence, and metacognition.
Our College & Career Readiness Kit will help map the route to
student success in college and career readiness!
Laura Gardner discusses why learning information literacy is so pertinent to
student success in college, career, and life.
See our blog to learn how the High School Benchmarks Report charts a course to
student success in college.
To calculate the Summary Rating, we use weights for each rating / flag based on the available data; the amount of information available about the school relative to other schools in the state; the amount of variability in the data; and the extent to which each data point has been proven to be related to
student success in college and for long - term life outcomes.
Armed with accurate, reliable data on your students» postsecondary outcomes (through the StudentTracker for High Schools service), together with the High School Benchmarks Report's nationwide context, you will have the data you need to chart a course to
student success in college.