Sentences with phrase «understanding of language measured»

Not exact matches

We are at a pivotal point in what is increasingly called world - language education, poised to regain a measure of competitiveness with innovative tools and programs that promote crosscultural understanding.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

One of these mindframes is ensuring there is a shared language of learning — An understanding by all stakeholders related to what learning looks like, how we measure it, and how we make it Visible.

Dr. Catts and Dr. Petscher share their excitement to collaborate with researchers at Harvard and MIT to conduct expansive research with the goal of gaining a deeper understanding of potential tools and screening methods to measure reading and language skills.

They measures students» attainment of skills such as understanding story events, drawing conclusions, making predictions, identifying the main idea, using vocabulary strategies, identifying supporting details, identifying point of view, evaluating ideas, understanding features that distinguish genres, and using figurative language to interpret text.

The course develops an understanding of program evaluation measures, and requires students to be able to demonstrate this knowledge for purposes of making data based decisions to develop intervention plans for a variety of learners including students with disabilities and other special concerns such as youth from foster, immigrant and migrant families, students who are at risk and students from language diverse communities.

TNReady will measure student understanding of our current state standards in English language arts and math, not the previous SPIs...» — See more

«A lot of the things we as scientists do — the language that we use, the metrics by which we measure things — don't really match - up with the types of things a water manager or a minister of environment would like to know or understand,» he says.

Legal Robot uses machine learning techniques like deep learning to understand legal language, then compare the language with other contracts to identify boilerplate vs. custom, measure the complexity and readability of the language, and identify the responsibilities, rights, and terms of an agreement.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Understanding and Choosing Assessments and Developmental Screeners for Young Children Ages 3 to 5: Profiles of Selected Measures (PDF - 1741 KB) Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2011) Translates into plain language technical information provided by instrument developers regarding the reliability of 8 commonly used child assessments and 10 developmental screening tools.