Sentences with phrase «graduation test results»

Even during lunch, the Ohio Graduation Test results are shining from a projector as students eat, constantly drilling in the importance of their academic success.

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The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

The effects of high - stakes testing programs on outcomes such as retention, graduation, and admission into academic programs are different from the results of using grades alone.

The gloomy picture painted by the ACT and NAEP is confirmed by high - school graduation statistics and college entrance test results.

Studies have long demonstrated that parental involvement in a child's education at home and school results in higher grades and test scores, enrollment in higher - level programs, and higher graduation rates and college attendance.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

Three, I often wish people were a little more reticent about racing to insist that the latest round of test results or graduation rates prove this or that.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results,

I'm convinced that much of the modest success we've enjoyed has been tied to the adoption of a statewide graduation requirement based on our 10th - grade MCAS test (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), beginning with the class of 2003, not the result of a national standard or ethic.

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.»

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

Which is apt to put even more ill - considered pressure on graduation rates or else throw states back to SAT and ACT results even when those are useless for students who don't take the tests.

Just why schools of choice produce higher graduation rates — even when, as in Milwaukee and D. C., test score results are not noticeably different — remains a puzzle.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

Test results must be reported to the state along with participant graduation rates allowing the program's effectiveness to be evaluated.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

Reviewers applauded administrators for embracing diversity, improving graduation rates, providing choice, charting Advanced Placement test results slightly above other North Carolina systems, and maintaining strong mental health partnerships, leadership development practices, and community support.

High - Stakes Test: A standardized test in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performaTest: A standardized test in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performatest in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performance.

Graduation rates, Regents test scores, drop - out rates, the progress of minority students, the performance of the weakest 9th grade students — you name it, and the results, as evaluated and tabulated by the respected university - based scholars at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, were very strong, even remarkable.

In all districts, leaders were attentive to state test results and other required accountability measures (e.g., graduation rates, attendance)-- for individual schools and for the district in relation to state proficiency standards and AYP targets.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

In Florida, for example, where MCT graduation requirements gained a great deal of attention, test results revealed gains for low - achieving students but differential passing rates for African American, Hispanic, and white students.

He said the options make it unlikely many students will not pass, but the process does not include a multi-year analysis of the PARCC test results before they count for graduation.

• Negative consequences are exacerbated when high - stakes such as school accountability or student graduation are solely based on the results of those tests.

The line between the value of formative assessment and diagnostic testing is blurred when there is pressure to ensure positive results for teacher evaluations, school grades, promotion, and graduation.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

Though discipline and safety at Locke improved quickly, it will take a few years to see whether Green Dot's reforms result in more graduations and higher test scores.

And when you look at test scores, graduation rates, and rigorous academic studies, the results are in: New York's charters are working.

Information on standards, graduation requirements, test results, and links to PTA and Eureka Math parent guides.

The state agreed to have researchers at Harvard University analyze the scores and compare them with results on national exams and Regents tests, the subject exams that high school students are required to take for graduation.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

It contrasts the results of single - test approaches to graduation with those of states using a broader range of measures to award a high school...

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps persist.

Members of the Public Schools Accountability Act Advisory Committee said one key issue that still remains to be worked out is the weighted emphasis graduation rates will be given within the overall API calculation as the state moves to reduce the import of test results and factor in other measures indicative of student success.

Accuracy requires that students have multiple opportunities to pass any test when the test results are used to make high - stakes decision, such as promotion to the next grade or graduation from high school.

Results have been mixed, ranging from gains in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (e.g., Chingos and Peterson 2012), small increases in reading and math scores (e.g., Greene et al. 1998), or increases in math but not reading scores (Rouse 1998), to no significant change in test scores (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2006; Wolf et al. 2011).

As a result, the school has witnessed dramatic increases in student performance on state tests — including a 100 percent pass rate on the 2016 Common Core English Regents exam — as well as an improved graduation rate and college retention rate.

Moreover, the state has made significant gains in its cohort graduation rate, A.P. participation and test results, and college matriculation over the same period.

Studies show positive test results and long - term outcomes in charters, which have clearly contributed to the district's rising graduation rates.

The rankings combine international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 and 2010.

Some charter schools get better graduation rates and test score results than traditional schools, but others don't, and the charter sectors in some states are ridden with scandal.

It looks like more schools, than the number determined by the recent agreement, can become «turn around» schools if they fall into this category based on test results and graduation rates.

That includes things like graduation rates, test results, student / teacher ratios, advanced coursework, post-secondary school enrollment, and disciplinary data.

The results have been promising: A study of statewide implementation of the 5Essentials across Illinois — a state that encompasses districts of diverse size and composition — found that strength on the five essential supports is positively related to higher test scores and larger gains over time in math and reading, positive changes in attendance rates, and improved graduation rates.

While the task force results may be eye - opening to the general public, they come as no surprise to local educators, who say they have known for years that the topics covered by New Jersey's High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), the standardized test used in grades 11 and 12 to measure achievement and required for graduation, is not a measure of college readiness.

In your earnest efforts to do what is right for your children, you may be inadvertently creating problems; under Connecticut law, districts are generally required to incorporate test results into graduation requirements.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

On page 53 of the June 2010 report, they have this table comparing different levels of graduation rate and also achievement results on certain tests.