Not exact matches
Students who
no longer needed their books would gain extra cash and their peers would
score big discounts.
Know your numbers, from your credit
score down to the interest rate on your
student loans, and take advantage of the bevy of financial tools on the Web.
People want to
know how many papers you have published, how frequently they have been cited, what are the
student evaluation
scores you have received.
Schools will
no longer enroll
students whose parents have bad social credit
scores.»
I would like to
know how
students scored comparitively.
When, as ample evidence demonstrates, «most of our high - school and college
students... consistently
score poorly in virtually every measure of civic knowledge,» this can not occur — our citizens have to
know what the truths are before they can consider whether they should hold to them.
While colleges struggle to find ways to measure 21st century skills,
students continue to be judged largely based on GPA and standardized test
scores — metrics that we
know are often biased and flawed.
Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by
student test
scores as reasonable and
know voters and big foundations feel the same way.
While some colleges
no longer require SAT or ACT
scores for admission, most college - bound
students will need to take at least one of these tests.
«The Assembly Majority has heard the concerns of New York's educators and parents and we
know that teachers» performance and that of New York's
students may not be truly reflected in test
scores.
Niagara University
no longer will require SAT or ACT
scores for admission, joining a growing list of colleges and universities that make the standardized college admissions exams optional for prospective
students.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says parents and
students can exhale
knowing that the second round of Common Core aligned test
scores will not be included on
student's permanent transcripts under the new budget deal.
Dominican College Becomes Test - Optional Dominican College will
no longer require incoming freshman
students to submit a standardized test
score for admission.
The Success network is
known for its
students» high achievement on state tests, and it emphasizes getting — and keeping —
scores up.
Hewson finds that it helps with his undergraduate teaching because «it makes me aware of what the typical A-level
student knows,» and in a climate when applications to chemistry degree courses are falling, it also «
scores Brownie points» in the department.
After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are
known to affect exam
scores — the highest - achieving
students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.
On my worst day,
knowing that I can walk into my lab full of vibrant, intelligent, creative and eager
students who may be playing music (while being productive) or introducing me to new slang such as «rekt» (wrecked or destroyed) while keeping
score of their rekt assailants on the white board, will make me smile.
Taking
scoring into new, avant - garde territory with his brash, impressionistic work for piano
student James Dean on «Rebel Without A Cause» and «East of Eden» before such experimentally surreal work as «Fantastic Voyage,» Rosenman wasn't a composer particularly
known for relaxed melody, which is what makes «Making Love» the true shocker that starts off this soundtrack.
When we ask questions, and when we're genuinely curious about what
students say, we are communicating an authentic desire to get to
know who they are beyond their test
scores and beyond what other teachers may share.
Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do
know certain characteristics of their
students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income
students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of
students who are African - American or Hispanic, average
student test
scores, and class sizes.
Although familiarity with the test can add a real boost to
scores, the bottom line is
students must understand and
know how to use and apply their mathematical skills flexibly in a variety of situations.
The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique
known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test -
score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to
student learning.
Let
students know too as they begin the quiz that not every question will be graded and that the point of the quiz is to try their best and not worry about the
score they receive.
Our
scores were often similar, but when they weren't, that let me
know that we needed to work on the
student's understanding of the rubric.
Were teachers, we wanted to
know, focusing their attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving
students in an effort to meet target
scores?
And it seems that when
students no longer view
scores as a label bestowed upon them by a teacher, but instead see them as something they own and have control over, the urge to fudge the data dissipates.
When we examine the results of standardized test
scores we typically think we are seeing evidence of what
students know.
We all
know that how well
students score on reading and other tests influences their ability to succeed later — getting into college, for example, or securing a good job.
The method used in the study,
known as regression discontinuity analysis, takes advantage of the fact that the district uses a strict numerical cutoff in the index
score assigned to
students as 5th graders in order to determine their eligibility to participate in the G&T program the following year.
But with automatic
scoring and the appropriate analytical tools, teachers could learn rapidly about what their
students know and adjust instruction quickly.
No matter what the principal did, the
students would still achieve average SAT
scores of 1400 points, and 99.5 percent would go to college.
Tileston, D.) has clearly established that
students will achieve higher
scores on standardized tests if they
know the vocabulary of the standards.
In other words, the United States is
no worse at educating our weakest
students than are countries with
scores similar to ours.
The estimate of a
student's ability (
known as the scaled
score) is expressed on the same scale as item difficulty.
As is well
known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that
students with good grades or high
scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.
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.
The PLC contains a list of all topics
students are needed to
know in relation to Christianity (SSection C: Dialogue between Religious and Non-Religious Beliefs and Attitudes):
students are asked to indicate their confidence level by shading red / amber / green and giving a confidence
score of 1 - 10.
We don't yet
know whether the troubling slide in test
scores for middle - school
students persists through the end of high school, a question that is certainly worth studying.
Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal
No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its
students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.
The president of Sara Lawrence College, announcing that the college would
no longer use SAT
scores as part of their admissions procedure, said: «The information produced by SAT
scores added little to our ability to predict how a
student would do at our college; it did, however, do much to bias admission in favor of those who could afford expensive coaching sessions.»
The day after I receive the results of their multiple choice tests, whether they are scantron, peer -
scored, or teacher
scored, the
students know that we will begin embarking on a series of what I call «lesson trails» to create a formative packet that becomes both evidence of their learning and a resource for their future test preparation.
So
students end up practicing meaningless pieces to
score well on quizzes without developing a sense of the whole game, like the kids mentioned above who can do the computations but don't
know what operations to use when.
This is important to
know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by
scores on standardized tests, significantly affects
student achievement.
As of October 1, 2003, the Board will
no longer note «Nonstandard Administration» on the
scores of any
students who take the SAT with extended time.
As Brent Bridgeman, ETS's principal research scientist, and his colleagues wrote in 2003, «A less speeded [mathematics] test is desirable now that
scores of disabled
students who are granted extra time will
no longer be flagged.»
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.
Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «
no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that
scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled
students are comparable to
scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled
students without extended time.»
And yet, its proponents say the practice has a solid place in the 21st - century classroom because looping has been
known to strengthen
student - teacher bonds, improve test
scores, expand time for instruction, increase parent participation, and reduce behavioral problems and placements in special education programs.
But still, such initiatives may well be changing
students» lives, although we wouldn't
know that by looking at test
scores alone.
Rotherham also did some checking and found out that while Winerip blames immigrant
students for the poor
scores at the school, «
scores are
no great shakes for white regular education
students» either.