Sentences with phrase «initial tests scores»

As a result of our findings of no consistent statistical association between the achievement and attainment effects in school choice studies we urged commentators and policymakers «to be more humble» in judging school choice programs or schools of choice based solely or primarily on initial test score effects.

Our use of annual gain scores provides an estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or worse than would be expected, given their initial test scores.

But a recent study of «no excuse» charter schools in Texas casts doubt on the idea that stronger initial test scores will translate into positive later - life outcomes.

While the initial test score results are very encouraging, the later life outcomes are disappointing.

Far beyond what their initial test scores might predict, students in Catholic schools tend to experience strong and lasting results.

The initial test scores don't put off Robinson.

For example, it might be that high - value - added teachers work in particularly effective schools, and that students who attend these schools for sustained periods see not only high initial test scores but also favorable long - term effects.

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After menopause, however, women's scores for tests of initial learning and retrieval of information dropped, bringing them about equal with age - matched men.

Moreover, a fear of North America's more discerning audience - particularly the influential youth market - and the snickering of the film's initial test screening at the DGA centre (with a prominent and active pot - head audience) frightened Scott to the point where he excised character moments with extensive dialogue, the film's more gentle subtleties, and Jerry Goldsmith's enchanting orchestral score.

Initial eligibility for the awards is based on a student's score on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

No matter whether students enter a middle school in the 6th or the 7th grade, middle - school students experience, on average, a large initial drop in their test scores.

We could not find evidence in our data to support this explanation for the initial drop in test scores upon transitioning to a middle school.

An initial problem with their analysis is that Amrein and Berliner disregarded the magnitude of any changes in test scores.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

Finally, we know that changing from one test to another generally yields an initial drop in scores.

The initial government evaluation gathered data through 2008 - 09, so the graduation rate analysis is only based on about 300 students (as compared to 1,300 students from multiple grades included in the test - score analysis).

Regardless of initial differences in test score levels, all schools appear to help their students make similar improvements in reading and math over two years.

Then, we examine whether the test - score gains in tracking schools were concentrated among simpler or more complex tasks and whether this varied by students» initial achievement levels.

First, we identified the set of classrooms most likely to have cheated, based on the prevalence of suspicious answer strings and unusual gains in test scores on the initial spring 2002 exam.

The initial test - score gaps for Hispanic students in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data were even greater than for blacks — 0.72 standard deviations in math and 0.43 standard deviations in reading.

The initial evaluation of the OSP found that participation increased reading test scores, parents» perceptions of safety, and high school graduation rates.

Hispanic children do not experience this widening test - score gap relative to otherwise similar white students; indeed, they systematically close the gap, perhaps because their initial scores are artificially low due to the relative inexperience with the English language among some immigrants and their children (see Figure 2).

A separate, more recent evaluation reported initial decreases in reading and math test scores.

The district «s initial response to the new state curriculum and tests, and to the decline in student test - score results, was mainly to call for principals to organize school - based curriculum - writing projects, which were carried out with little district guidance or input.

In addition to the legal action, the union has distributed letters for teachers to give to their principals, expressing opposition to the new evaluations and the use of standardized test scores in setting objectives for teachers in initial planning conferences.

We are just starting our journey on this new path and during our initial professional development days we decided to put instructional strategies, coaching and test scores aside, and started working on beliefs, bias and culture.

Initial findings from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measure of Effective Teaching (MET) study indicate that teachers» value - added histories — composite measures based on student test scores and teachers» perceived ability to present challenging material — are strong indicators of future classroom performance.

The New York teachers union, an arm of the American Federation of Teachers, strongly opposed Cuomo's initial proposal to increase the weight of standardized test scores to 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation, stating that assuming a direct correlation among test scores, the effort of teachers, and success of children ignores all of the other factors that go into learning.

If your child has been tested more than once, or the initial results just don't seem to make sense with your knowledge of your own child, read Why do my child's test scores vary from test to test?

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Prior to the scoring of the pilot test, the NAEP standing committee (the educators, subject matter specialists, and curriculum experts who work with NCES and contractors to oversee the development of the assessment) reviews the scoring guides in relation to initial sets of student responses from the pilot to ensure that the scoring guides make the correct distinctions among levels of performance, and that the scores can be assigned objectively, consistently, and accurately.

One is that high value - added scores in the initial year reflect teacher efforts to «teach to the test» rather than to produce meaningful skills.

Although the NJEA didn't get down to specific percentages, the gist of its argument is that the administration is relying too heavily on student test scores, at least in the initial year of the evaluations.

Attending a classroom that increased test scores by one standard deviation (about 8.8 percentile points) during the initial year of the experiment was reported to increase college attendance, the quality of the college attended (as indicated by the mean adult earnings of its graduates), and earnings.

The research reviewed here suggests that teacher value - added explains a modest, but not negligible, fraction of variation in student test scores during the initial year.

A 2006 World Bank analysis credited initial rise in Poland's PISA reading test scores, in part, to increased hours of classroom instruction.

And secondly, if you find that the learner scores low on the test, this may also be an indicator that the information wasn't relevant to their job (which speaks to bigger issues needing to be resolved in the initial needs analysis).

Applicants for the initial license are required to submit passing scores on the Praxis test.

CCSA's Accountability Framework is made up of two parts - an initial review of publicly available test score and postsecondary readiness data and then, for the subset of schools underperforming on all initial criteria, a Multiple Measures Review based on public and non-public data that is tailored to a school's mission and outcomes.

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Consortium and California officials have warned that the initial scores on the Smarter Balanced tests would be lower than on tests based on California's and most states» standards, because the Common Core standards are harder, and the tests, designed to measure critical thinking, problem solving and verbal reasoning, will be harder.

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