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Well-administered academic acceleration programs have been generally found to be highly beneficial to students. [5] For example, accelerated students outperform peers on a variety of measures, including grades in school, future university status and grades, career achievements, and performance assessments. [6]
Grade skipping is one of the most cost-effective ways of addressing the needs of a profoundly gifted student [citation needed], as it requires no extra resources [5] and little more than assigning the child to a different classroom, without the expense of special materials, tutoring, or separate programs.
Renaissance Learning, the developer of Accelerated Reader, has outlined the primary purpose of the program as an assessment tool to gauge whether students have read a book, [5] not to assess higher-order thinking skills, to teach or otherwise replace curriculum, to supersede the role of the teacher, or to provide an extrinsic reward.
Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G&T education) is a sort of education used for children who have been identified as gifted or talented. The main approaches to gifted education are enrichment and acceleration. An enrichment program teaches additional, deeper material ...
In the 1990s, Alistair Smith developed the accelerated learning cycle, also for use in teaching. [8] The phases are: [9] Create the supportive learning environment – safe but stimulating; Connect the learning – useful knowledge we already have; Give the big picture; Describe the learning outcomes we want to achieve
Accelerated Learning Framework (ALF) is an education model. It focuses on three key change drivers. It focuses on three key change drivers. ALF "provides a conceptual link between a digitally rich learning-without-limits environment, and student achievement".
Renaissance is known for creating Accelerated Reader, which is used in about 35,000 schools, as well as Star computer-adaptive assessments, used in more than 37,000 schools, making Star Assessments the most widely used computer-adaptive assessment in the U.S. Pre-K–12 educational market, according to company figures.
Cognitive acceleration or CA is an approach to teaching designed to develop students' thinking ability, developed by Michael Shayer and Philip Adey from 1981 at King's College London. [1] The approach builds on work by Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky and takes a constructivist approach.