Sentences with phrase «achievement test scores as»

Reliance on standardized achievement test scores as the source of data about teacher quality will inevitably promote confusion between «successful» instruction and «good» instruction.

Using Student Achievement Test Scores as Evidence of External Validity for Indicators of Teacher Quality: Connecticut's Beginning Educator Support and Training Program.

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In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

Furthermore, immigrant children who were learning English and participated in the intervention had achievement scores on those state tests that were nearly as high as the achievement scores of classmates who were proficient in English.

Their thoughts about their daughters» maths ability were much more tied to actual maths achievements, such as test scores.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

Since tests can include cultural bias and handicap those with different languages and cultures, we need to look at assessment as a holistic approach that includes performance tasks, portfolios, achievement scores, creativity tests, and other measures.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

Tenth - grade earth science students who engaged in PBL earned higher scores on an achievement test as compared to students who received traditional instruction (Chang, 2001).

As we've seen in New York, which is a few years ahead of the curve when it comes to making its tests much harder, a higher cut score will make achievement gaps look much bigger, and the achievement of most high - poverty schools look much worse.

Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

The patient responded with strong vital signs for a time, as test scores climbed in the 1990s and achievement gaps narrowed.

They emphasized that, while many people might think closing the gap is impossible, black - white test scores, evolving research on intelligence development, and motivation as a nation are all indicative that a future without the achievement gap may exist.

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

The K - 20 EDW includes detailed enrollment, demographic, and program participation information for each student, as well as reading and math achievement test scores.

Recalling that black students have the lowest scores on both the reading and math tests, one can see that these results can be interpreted as the effects of peer achievement.

Recent government education policies seem to assume that academic achievement as measured by test scores is the primary objective of public education.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment - development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement standards»).

As noted earlier, whereas Amrein and Berliner simply compared the test scores of 4th graders in one year with those of a different set of 4th graders four years later, we measured students» growth in achievement between the 4th and 8th grades.

This is important to know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by scores on standardized tests, significantly affects student achievement.

In my reading, I see this phrase «achievement gap» as referring solely to results on test scores.

But for Core proponents, the timing couldn't be worse: Just as states began implementing the new standards, 40 states receiving No Child waivers are also launching new systems to evaluate teachers, which will incorporate some measures of student achievement, including, where available, scores from standardized tests.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

Teachers discuss and analyze student data such as test scores and achievement gaps, identifying areas in which students» needs aren't being adequately met and redesigning the curricula to meet those needs.

As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

«Students who have highly effective teachers three years in a row score as much as 50 percentile points higher on achievement tests than those who have ineffective teachers for three years in a row.»

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

As an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scoreAs an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scoreas a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scores.

When using one - hour testing sessions to gauge student performance, combined reading and math scores serve as a better indicator of student achievement than either test separately.

Supporters also point to high test scores, but the editorial claims «there is no way to accurately compare voucher [sic] students with Florida public school students» because the latter are required to take the state achievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test or Ptest scores, but the editorial claims «there is no way to accurately compare voucher [sic] students with Florida public school students» because the latter are required to take the state achievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Teachievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test or Ptest while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Teachievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement TeAchievement Test or PTest or PSAT.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

Doing this the way we do in many places now, however — treating one test as a comprehensive indicator of student achievement, pretending that scores taken by themselves are a trustworthy indicator of school quality, and rewarding and punishing teachers and students for scores — is just too simple.

As the authors of the meta - analysis point out, there are many known, malleable predictors of achievement test scores that have much higher associations with achievement than measures of grit, e.g., study skills, test anxiety, and learning strategies.

In addition, we control for determinants of student achievement that may change over time, such as a teacher's experience level, as well as for student characteristics, such as prior - year test scores, gender, racial / ethnic subgroup, special education classification, gifted classification, English proficiency classification, and whether the student was retained in the same grade.

(The negative effect to which Darling - Hammond refers was probably what Summers and Wolfe noted as the «perversely» negative relationship between 6th grade teachers» scores on the NTE Core Battery, a test of pedagogy and basic skills, and their students» achievement.)

Now Americans want achievement for all, defined as higher test scores.

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

In 61 randomly selected schools, students were assigned to classes based on prior achievement as measured by test scores.

In this report, we use 2007 test - score information to evaluate the rigor of each state's proficiency standards against the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an achievement measure that is recognized nationally and has international credibility as well.

As West shows in his Education Next article, moving to middle school leads to a «substantial drop in student test scores» in the first year of the transition, and the «relative achievement of middle - school students continues to decline in the subsequent years they spend in such schools.»