Sentences with phrase «students against testing»

Students Against Testing was a New Jersey - based national organization created to be a strong force against the score - obsessed education machine known as standardized testing.

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The detailed knowledge of the Precision stage is kept from being «inert» because the student tests it against the knowledge learned in the Romance stage and against the background knowledge he or she brought to the subject originally.

The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

The GOP majority has been strongly supportive of the Endless Testing Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outTesting Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outtesting down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt out rates.

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

It comes in the wake of a rebellion by parents against testing; one - fifth of students did not sit for the state exams this year, a fourfold increase from the previous year.

Lawyers believe the Home Office is desperate for none of their claims to be tested in court because the evidence against the students would not be strong enough.

In 1999, Pelosi voted against the Ten Commandments being displayed in public buildings, including schools [105] Pelosi voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, which instituted testing to track students» progress and authorized an increase in overall education spending.

«Tests don't count against students,» read one.

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Regent Roger Tilles, seen in Albany on March 12, said Monday that voting against legislation to repeal the state's requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on student testing would be «suicide» on Long Island.

That would mean tens of thousands of students will continue to be tested against standards that don't tell them or their families whether they are prepared for college.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

That report's recommendations, many of which were adopted into state law and regulations, included a ban on state testing for students before third grade and a restriction against including scores from new Common Core tests on students» permanent records.

She said her run against Cuomo would be built on a critique of his use of high - dollar campaign donations and his support for linking teacher performance evaluations to student test scores.

For the past three years, Finch says he and the minority Republicans in the state Assembly have voted against tying teacher evaluations to how well students do on the state standardized tests.

Pellegrino, a West Islip resident and leader in Long Island's «opt - out» movement against standardized student testing, is facing Conservative Tom Gargiulo of Babylon, a retired teacher and coach who also has the backing of Republicans and the Independence Party.

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said the union had been against what he called the state's «test - and - punish philosophy» because «it's the wrong way to evaluate teachers and it's harmful to our students and the joy of teaching and learning.»

The low test scores will not count against students.

Gifted education programs have long been subject to criticism that their selection criteria, which often rely on IQ testing and other measures of cognitive ability, are biased against students of color and poor children.

They were up against 196 of the very best high school math students in Mexico, taking tests in a completely unfamiliar setting and trying to comprehend, in Spanish, complex problems that generally require more than an hour to solve.

They were up against 196 of the very best high school math students in Mexico, taking tests in a completely unfamiliar setting and trying...

She and Christine Casey, a graduate student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, collected fecal samples from the geckos and tested them against common antibiotics.

In 2007 researchers at Kyoto University pitted chimpanzees against college students in three memory - based intelligence tests.

Student's t tests excluding the outlier indicated a p - value of < 0.04 for the remaining five pandemic H1N1 samples compared with the IgG memory and germinal center (GC) cells or the primary IgG plasmablast responses (0.2 with EM included) and a p - value of < 0.0001 against the IgM populations.

July 28, 2017 - Sporting names like the Indigo Tube Worms, Ultra Violet Sloths and Orange Chicken, teams of student summer interns matched wits against each other and competitors at Los Alamos National Laboratory and San Jose City College in a series of «capture the flag» challenges that tested their knowledge of...

Experiments have previously suggested that the CD8 T cells could protect against the virus, but the study of 341 staff and students at Imperial College London published in Nature Medicine is the first «natural experiment» to test the idea in humans during a pandemic.

Rhodiola rosea effects against fatigue was tested on a medical students who worked long hours and night shifts.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

NAPLAN has been used as a benchmark for student performance against national averages since 2008, but just how effective is the test?

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Up against stiff international competition in the category, including the French Ministry of Education, judges commented that the MYP eAssessment «was impressive in how the examinations are designed to assess students» higher thinking skills which previously had been harder to do using paper testing» and that it «clearly demonstrates that it is possible to successfully deliver online summative assessment in schools anywhere in the world».

We're so test - and grade - driven that we forget how class isn't actually a competition that pits student against student.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a complaint that the test all Texas students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates against minority youths.

The monitoring of literacy and numeracy achievement against a set of absolute proficiency levels would require a shift in thinking on the part of students, teachers and parents who are used to interpreting test performances only in terms of year level expectations.

The decision to move NAPLAN online provides a unique opportunity to shift the focus of assessment from common year - level tests and low national minimum standards to the monitoring of each student's progress against challenging personal targets.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

For example, guessing is penalized on the SAT but not on the ACT, so students will need to recognize that wrong answers will count against them more on one test than on another.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

While Indiana had fine standards on the books, the assessments it has used to track student and school performance against those standards aren't great and the scores needed to pass those tests have been set low.

Such «up in the clouds» goals as finding the uniqueness in each student get bumped against the realities of discipline, widely varying reading abilities, and looming standardized tests.

That undertaking became steadily more controversial, however, as the standards were implemented and tests were devised to measure student performance against them (see «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» features, Fall 2016).

1) Uniform national standards and tests of student performance against those standards gather broader public backing than do the specific sets of standards and tests known as the Common Core.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

We know of no legitimate statistical text that argues it is irrelevant to use tests of statistical significance to guard against random fluctuations in the data - in this case, scores on tests of student performance.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

We can mitigate against students» acquiring this damaging mindset by helping them understand that any one test on a subject does not demonstrate all of the understanding and knowledge they have developed — and then adapting our grading, scoring and performance reporting accordingly.