Sentences with phrase «assessment of academic readiness»

(For those outside the Lone Star state, STAAR stands for «State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness,» our annual public... [Continue reading]

All programs reinforce and complement Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, and the National Science Education Standards.

Many Texas school officials have been advocating to push back standardized testing as they feel that students will not be able to successfully pass the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests.

STAAR ™ Writing and English I, II, III Resources: State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ™) resources for grades 4 and 7 writing, English I, English II, and English III assessments.

Since 2014, Best Elementary students have achieved steady gains on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in reading, writing, and math, which is measured in Index 1.

When Literacy By 3 launched in 2014, only 68 percent of third - grade students met the «satisfactory» passing standard on the reading portion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results.

For example, students using Study Island in Texas would have questions geared to prepare them for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR).

We also wanted to increase our scholars» trajectory toward college readiness, as measured by the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and Measures of Academic Progress (MAP).

Both charter and traditional public school students in Texas take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ™) tests.

Recently, Killeen ISD's professional development team sought to expand their professional development efforts again, this time to support middle school mathematics educators as they work to meet the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ™), which has replaced the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).

Houston Independent School District (HISD) needed a solution that would address these gaps and work towards improving student performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR).

Over the past several weeks, I've received a lot of positive feedback from parents across our state regarding the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Report Card.

After seeing triple - digit math gains in comparison to other Texas schools on STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) coming out of Willow Springs, KISD rolled out ST Math to all 32 of its elementary schools, with funding support from Toyota USA Foundation and Xerox.

To create the new STAAR MASTER ® books, we used information provided by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) about the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ®), including the documents and updates listed below.

STAAR MASTER Practice Tests follow the blueprints for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR test).

In 2016 - 2017, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) was used to test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8; in writing in grades 4 and 7; in science in grades 5 and 8; in social studies in grade 8; and end - of - course assessments for English I and II, Algebra I and II, biology and US History.

Not exact matches

At least one of the two new assessment - development consortia could — probably in the name of «performance assessment» and «career readiness» — easily drown in the soft stuff, in which case the tests it is building may not do justice to the academic standards with which they are meant to be aligned.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

The law requires districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.

The annual assessment outlines a set of academic standards that predict college and career readiness.

Our student achievement is measured in many ways, and we continuously strive to improve by studying results of not only the STAAR tests (State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness), but also of district - level ongoing assessments, PSAT, SAT, and ACT.

NAGB's efforts to track college readiness in the United States is uniquely important as it has the only assessment program that reports on the academic performance of a representative national sample of high school students.

«The Index will place additional emphasis on academic growth, evaluation of school climate through a robust chronic absenteeism measure, attention to both four - year and extended - year graduation rates, and assessments of postsecondary readiness.»

Academic and engagement - related indicators of readiness include student performance with respect to attendance, credit accumulation, course performance (grade point average and demonstration of proficiencies in context), performance on summative assessments, competitive course - taking patterns (Advanced Placement [AP], International Baccalaureate [IB], and career technical education options), and course completion.

Meet a rigorous standard of quality and demonstrate, through a formal state or local academic assessment, knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics; or knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics readiness, as appropriate.

We're proud to announce that Exact Path, Edmentum's K — 8 individualized learning program that combines high - quality adaptive assessments and learning paths to promote academic growth, has just earned an ISTE Seal of Alignment for Readiness.

Section (c) directs school districts and charter schools to adopt procedures for the academic acceleration of gifted and talented students that include an assessment of students» readiness and motivation for acceleration and a match between the curriculum and the students» academic needs.