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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"academic standards"”.
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Benchmarking Academic Standards : A Policy Trajectory Study.
… Higher Education (NCIHE): the benchmarking of academic standards initiative. It is concerned to scrutinise the inception, articulation, progress and implementation of the policy initiative. The study is concerned to explore the distinctive policy process of the benchmarking initiative and …
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Educational Philosophy, Church Proximity, and Academic Standards in Church-Based Theological Education: A Phenomenological Study
… educational philosophy, church proximity, and academic standards in CBTE. For the purpose of this study, educational philosophy was narrowly classified as a classical, vocational, confessional, or missional model. Church proximity was measured by the closeness of the doctrinal statement, …
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A Study of Teachers’ Perceptions of the Effects of the Georgia Performance Standards on their Power in Instruction in a High School In East Georgia
<p>Academic standards have come to occupy center stage in public schools to guide teachers in their instruction, and they have become the means by which teachers assess students’ performance. With more emphasis placed on student performance and higher test scores, states have come to rely …
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Assessment matters: a critical appraisal of assessment practice in higher education with a particular focus on enhancing student understanding of standards and criteria
… what is being sought in assessment in terms of academic standards and the attributes of high quality work. The papers are both conceptual and empirical. The research journey is divided into three main phases. The first phase of papers challenge objectivist assumptions of assessment, and thereby …
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An examination of college student athletes' academic achievement
There is growing concern over the academic performance of student athletes in today’s institutions of higher education. Across all media, the public is constantly reminded that the success rate of student athletes is not what it should be. One hypothesis for this poor performance is that athletes …
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How do teacher practices influence student academic performance in required after-school tutoring?
… of at-risk students who are not meeting academic standards must provide supplementary educational services (SES) to their struggling learners. This study examines the tutoring program of an urban Texas elementary school that rapidly improved its state accountability over the course of a …
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Understanding the Appropriateness of Standards on Kindergarten Achievement in California: A Developmental Perspective
… system putting a greater emphasis on increasing academic standards in early childhood education, kindergarten students will be affected. In particular, there has been a statewide push toward increasing literacy by enforcing more rigorous language arts expectations for kindergarten entrance and …
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"Socializing ""Good Enough Students"": A Contextualized and Ideographic Analysis of African American Students' Emotional and Identity Development"
… students in a schooling context in which meeting academic standards and expectations of teachers required minimal engagement to achieve acceptable performance. Children were functioning effectively as ""good enough students,"" by successfully calibrating their efforts in academic and behavioral …
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Response to Intervention: Importance of Parental Involvement
… help a student who is not meeting the prescribed academic standards, and who is falling behind in a grade level. The proposed study addressed the problem of the current documentation being used with parents. The knowledge that parents currently have of RTI was explored through a short survey …
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Examination Of An Independent School’s Site-Based Summer Program
… supported by individual learning theories. Academic standards and expectations aligned to the traditional school year; summer classes have developed in tandem with curriculum refinements. Instructors valued the opportunities for more frequent collegial discussions and professional …
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The implementation of a school-wide anti-bullying program
… in order for students to learn and achieve high academic standards. Conversely, harassment, intimidation and/or bullying, disrupts both a student's ability to learn and a school's ability to educate its students in a safe environment. Students learn by example, therefore, school administrators, …
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AWARE: Analyzing the Impact of an Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy Curriculum using Sixth Grade Students in Colorado
… toward advocacy, but also meets Colorado state academic standards. Case studies using sixth grade students in Denver show the impact that such a curriculum has, not only on knowledge gained, but student empowerment and civic responsibility through advocacy.</p> <p>The author analyzes the impact …
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Leadership Characteristics In South Carolina High-Poverty, Award-Winning Schools
… schools. The teachers were satisfied with the academic standards at both schools, and the principals played a vital role in creating and sustaining the culture of selected schools.</p>
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The intersections of forest schooling and a public school: an intrinsic case study of a Vermont kindergarten
… to explore intersections between rigorous academic standards and developmentally appropriate activities, as well as technology and nature to work toward a more student-centered and holistic approach to education.
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Equity and Excellence in Education: The Fiscal and Legal Implications
… movement is arguing for higher academic standards for all students. The excellence movement has also asserted that excellence and equity can be achieved for all students. This dissertation will attempt to offer some preliminary results of the excellence-in-education movement on …
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The Adoption and Use of Electronic Information Resources by a Non-Traditional User Group: Automotive Service Technicians.
… have "professionalized," adopting more rigorous academic standards and developing ongoing certification programs. The current paper deals with the acceptance of advanced electronic information technology by skilled service personnel, specifically, automotive service technicians. The theoretical …
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Teachers' Attitudes Toward Teacher Evaluation In High and Low Achieving Middle Schools As Measured By The Pennsylvania State System of Assessment
With the emergence of the Pennsylvania Academic Standards in 1998, and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, greater emphasis has been placed on teacher accountability. As part of this reform, teacher evaluation has been an item of particular importance. Research demonstrates that teacher …
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Talking About How: Variation in the Use of HOW and Its Definition
… ways that students used <em>how</em> in academic essays, determined the frequency of each pattern, and for the sake of comparison, searched for those patterns in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), in both the spoken and academic written registers. The results showed that …
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Departmental factors affecting time to degree and completion rates of doctoral students at one land-grant research institution
… time to doctoral degree and completion rates by academic department, and to identify departmental factors that positively or negatively affect these outcomes at one land-grant, research institution. This topic is significant to all aspects of higher education: students, departments, and …
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Teachers' Beliefs About Students With English as an Additional Language and Co-Existing Disability Participation in State Academic Achievement Tests
… and students with disabilities in meeting academic content standards in state assessments. For these tests, SEAL+D, who have both designations, must also participate. Title I and III of ESEA specifically mandate that English learners with disabilities, i.e., SEAL+D, participate in their …
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