Sentences with phrase «like mastery tests»

Like mastery tests, these costs per unit measurements will provide the state (and taxpayers) with an opportunity to determine which superintendents are doing well and should be rewarded for their efficient operation of services, which need a dose of professional development to help them get a hold of their financial operation and which need to be removed for their failure to get their job done correctly.

Study after study has indicated that poverty and standardized test scores (like the mastery test) are closely correlated.

Not exact matches

There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

Programs like No Child Left Behind and Common Core — with their focus on «hard skills» and the mastery of content, both very «carpenter» - like approaches to education — have failed children, and teaching has regressed to an emphasis on test preparation.

To avoid overwhelming teachers and students with daunting lists of curricular targets, an instructionally supportive accountability test should measure students» mastery of only an intellectually manageable number of curricular aims, more like a half - dozen than the 50 or so a teacher may encounter today.

The simple claim hinges on a statement like this one from a presentation on charter schools by the CT SDE: «Of the 14 charter schools that administered the spring 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test, 12 schools (or 86 %) outperformed their host district with their overall SPI.»

West Hartford students consistently score near the top on the Connecticut Mastery Tests, joining the likes of Avon and Greenwich students with over 79 percent attaining proficiency or higher on national exams.

Like parents all across Connecticut, I've been waiting patiently — and not so patiently — for my child's Connecticut Mastery Test (Fourth Generation) results to arrive in the mail.

Presumably jacked up on biscotti and ristretto, workers are now expertly assembly body panels, testing tolerances, and in a show of manufacturing mastery, marrying a full powertrain to its waiting chassis like a foot in a very tight shoe.