Sentences with phrase «traditional academic measures»

The students in the program are all assessed using traditional academic measures such as local assessments and portfolios.

Not exact matches

The academics surveyed a total of 238 people in two studies using traditional measures of risk and new questions which included more activities which were rated as feminine by a group of 99 men and women.

Using data from California's CORE districts, we show that SEL and CC measures demonstrate reliability and validity, distinguish between schools, are related to other academic and non-academic measures, and also illuminate dimensions of student achievement that go beyond traditional indicators.

«ESSA claws back some of the most problematic federal accountability requirements, and it emphasizes the need for social and emotional, as well as traditional academic, measures of student success,» Weiss said.

Private Schools: operate privately, funded by private money through tuition and donations, not required to follow same accountability measures as traditional public schools and may discriminate based on race, ethnicity, academic performance and religion.

Some of these things can be measured in traditional assessments, like for problem - solving, give kids a problem — not an academic problem — one where they're forced to address an issue where there's a goal and an obstacle in the way (which is the operational definition of a problem) and see how they perform.

In addition to measuring academic achievement, ESSA will also require schools to address at least one non-academic «other indicator» beyond traditional measures such as state exam scores or graduation rates.

Measuring student academic performance by standard such as the ones outlined in the CCSS is different than more traditional grading methods that are used in most middle and high schools.

Their Digital Promise ™ initiative provides useful digital badges for core academic knowledge as well as other modern - day competencies that can not be measured by traditional assessments.

Baker, chairman of the Edge Foundation education charity, criticised the government's ambition for 90 % of young people to take the English baccalaureate, a performance measure that encourages schools to enter students to traditional, academic subjects.

Factors with the highest weight included the share of public schools that are charter schools, the share of public - school students in charter schools, the growth rate of charters, the closure rate of charters (small and consistent was considered the best) and academic quality in both reading and math as measured in the equivalent of «additional days of learning» when compared with traditional public schools.

Assessments such as the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, the Flanker Inhibitory Control and Attention Task, and the Social Skills Rating System will be administered alongside more traditional measures of academic achievement.

These are designed to measure higher - order skills like creativity, students» well - being and technological literacy as well as traditional academics.

As Duberman observed, «Since Black Mountain prided itself on not having itemized rules of conduct or traditional measures for academic performance, infractions and inabilities were difficult to pinpoint.»

Newton's piece does not, how you say, adhere to the traditional measured tones of academic discourse.

Alongside these results, Fitzpatrick et al. (2014) found that more traditional measures of EF partially mediated the relation between socio - economic status (SES) and children's academic ability in a sample of children aged between 3 and 5 years of age.