Sentences with phrase «international benchmarking test»

«They're living in a global society, and I need our community to understand where we are on an international benchmark test.»

The International Benchmark Test (IBT) is an internationally administered program of assessments with tests appropriate for grades 3 to 10 in English, mathematics and science.

Not exact matches

There has been considerable discussion about the advantages of benchmarking the performance of American students in various states and localities to international tests.

You look at countries like China, Finland, Canada, where they're killing us on international benchmarks, absolutely destroying us on these tests.

Released in the first week of December, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report has highlighted issues in education outcomes for Australian students (tested at Year 9), adding to the weight of other benchmarking reports released recently.

Using data from the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a benchmarking test of 15 - year - olds in 33 countries, researchers led by Margriet van Hek, a sociologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, looked at how school characteristics affected boys» and girls» reading performance.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

Also, education expert Linda Darling - Hammond and an international team of researchers just finished up a three - year study examining how countries that outperform the U.S. on internationally benchmarked tests provide high - quality teaching to every child.

OECD (2013b) International Benchmarking for School Improvement: the OECD Test for Schools, OECD cited in Goss, P., Hunter, J., Romanes, D., Parsonage, H. (2015).

The tests are marked in Cambridge and provide schools with an external international benchmark for learner performance.

The government said it did «not accept» the recommendation as the department «does not set national targets», but instead would benchmark the attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils on international tests such as TIMSS and PISA.

She said the Pisa international test results - due again by the end of this year - could become an increasingly important benchmark.

Keynote Speaker Susan Sclafani, The National Center on Education and the Economy Common Standards Judy Jeffrey, former Director of Iowa Department of Education Jim Patterson, ACT Jason Zimba, Bennington College Common Tests Brian Gong, Center for Assessment Stuart Kahl, Measured Progress John Tanner, Test Sense International Benchmarking: Gary Phillips, American Institute for Research John Mazzeo, Educational Testing Service Susan Sclafani, The National Center on Education and the Economy William Schmidt, Michigan State University ESEA Reauthorization: Henry Braun, Boston College Andrew Ho, Harvard Graduate School of Education «Hot Topics» Panel Discussion Allen Doolittle, Riverside Publishing Mark Heidorn, CTB / McGraw - Hill Stuart Kahl, Measured Progress Michael Kane, Educational Testing Service Jerry Melican, College Board Shilpi Niyogi, Pearson Educational Measurement

For instance, «internationally benchmarked» actually meant no more than that the committees that wrote the Common Core standards looked at the standards in countries that score well on international tests.

The Common Core State Standards, created in response to American students» poor standing on international academic tests and applicable to public schools only, are a set of rigorous math and English Language Arts benchmarks that spell out what skills students should be able to perform every year from kindergarten through 12th grade.

You might love watching automakers chase each other's best times around Germany's Nürburgring, or you might think that running production cars around the roughly 13 - mile circuit is nothing but an irrelevant battle for bragging rights, but there's no denying that the «Ring is an international performance - testing benchmark.

Also, education expert Linda Darling - Hammond and an international team of researchers just finished up a three - year study examining how countries that outperform the U.S. on internationally benchmarked tests provide high - quality teaching to every child.