State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Nancy Grasmick answers questions from the press after she announced the results of
the Maryland School Assessments.
The first KIPP Baltimore school has consistently beaten scores of other city schools on
the Maryland School Assessments, and at times scored as well as some of the highest performing suburban schools in math.
Yet, the Friendship schools — both of which serve grades 6 - 12 and have a curriculum rooted in mathematics — were described as «not effective» in their academic growth on
the Maryland School Assessments.
Results from
the Maryland School Assessments released in July showed declines in performance in reading and math in almost every school district in the state.
While the National Center for Education Statistics does not release the exact number of students given the reading test, Best said it was between 3,600 and 4,200 students, a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of public school students in the state who are taking
the Maryland School Assessments.
Not exact matches
A
Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom
assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.
In
Maryland, students must pass four high - stakes tests [high
school assessments] in order to qualify for a diploma.
I would think that the state of
Maryland's
assessment — which is basically problem oriented, performance oriented, and graded by teachers in
schools — is driving the right kind of teaching, and is having a good effect on learning.
Math Games Encourage Practice at Home A partnership with a local teacher supply stores is helping the staff at one
Maryland school improve state
assessment scores.
Maryland is looking at ways to create an innovative, technology - based high
school assessment for students who face disadvantages taking traditional paper - and - pencil tests.
In a nutshell, we compared how specific
Maryland and Colorado
schools fared on state
assessments in years when there were frequent cancellations due to snowfall to the performance of the very same
schools in relatively mild winters.
All 3,500 kindergarten teachers in
Maryland are using a new readiness
assessment this year that rests on teachers» observations of children's work and play to build a detailed picture of what they need as they begin the
school year.
The ARCH project, developed through a Teaching American History grant partnership between the Howard County Public
School System (
Maryland) and the Center for History Education at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), is a framework for
assessment that measures the process of historical thinking, as well as the retention of prior knowledge.
Annual state
assessments in
Maryland take six hours, the equivalent of just one
school day.
In a series of studies, literacy researchers at the National Reading Research Center (NRRC)(Afflerbach, Almasi, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1996; Almasi, Afflerbach, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1995; Guthrie, Schafer, Afflerbach, & Almasi, 1994) investigated the effects of the
Maryland State Performance
Assessment Program (MSPAP), a multipronged reform effort that includes learning outcomes, a performance
assessment, guidelines for
school decision - making, and suggestions for staff development.
For example, in two parallel studies, researchers at RAND (Koretz, Barron, Mitchell, & Stecher, 1996; Koretz, Mitchell, Barron, & Keith, 1996) used telephone and written surveys to examine the influence of the
Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) and the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS)-- both of which had
assessments in several subject areas.
As curriculum undergoes revision, this alignment will be clarified and strengthened in order to support success on the
Maryland High
School Assessments in English.
He served as director of the
Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of
school districts working together to develop and share formative performance
assessments.
Jay McTighe, served as director of the
Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of
school districts working together to develop and share formative performance
assessments.
Case Studies of the Early Implementation of Kindergarten Entry
Assessments (2016) presents findings from a descriptive study that examined the development and early implementation of Kindergarten Entry
Assessments (KEAs) in 12 districts across four Race To the Top - Early Learning Challenge grantee states (
Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington) in the 2014 - 15
school year.
Three years after
Maryland began to hold public
school students to higher standards, results of English and math
assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress and less than half statewide passed the tests.
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), the country's leading
assessment reform organization, today called on
Maryland legislators to prohibit the State Board of Education from requiring students to pass a test or series of exams in order to receive a high
school diploma.
Prior to this position, Jay was involved with
school improvement projects at the
Maryland State Department of Education where he helped lead
Maryland's standards - based reforms, including the development of performance - based, statewide
assessments.
«I hope Marylanders will take advantage of several opportunities — including the new
Maryland College - and Career - Ready Standards, the PARCC
assessments, the selection of our next State Superintendent of
Schools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into schools and clas
Schools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into
schools and clas
schools and classrooms.
Join us for a webinar presentation and discussion on data trends in discipline disparities from two recent REL studies — REL Northwest's Suspension and expulsion patterns in six Oregon
school districts and REL Mid-Atlantic's Disproportionality in
school discipline: An
assessment of trends in
Maryland, 2009 — 12.
Maryland elementary and middle
school students continued a strong eight - year trend of making steady progress on the tests, noting gains in reading and math on this year's
assessments.
This report presents findings from a descriptive study that examined the development and early implementation of Kindergarten Entry
Assessments (KEAs) in 12 districts across four Race To the Top - Early Learning Challenge grantee states (
Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington) in the 2014 - 15
school year.
In 2014 - 2015
Maryland used the
Maryland High
School Assessments (HSA) to test students in Biology upon completion of each course.