Sentences with phrase «students know their scores»

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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.