Traditional measures of school performance focus primarily on absolute achievement — typically the percentage of students who perform at or above some predetermined cut score. (sccharter.org)
«You have teachers and administrators whose jobs rise and fall on school performance as measured on reading and math tests given for three to four days in the spring,» he said. (dceduphile.org)
For the past dozen years — the No Child Left Behind era — the primary metric for measuring school performance in most states and in federal policy has been the proficiency rate. (c-sail.org)