Sentences with phrase «about standardized test results»

But, now, those lawmakers are concerned about standardized test results that put it among the worst schools in the state.

Or it could simply be low motivation, since many students never hear about their standardized test results from previous years?

The right high school for your student goes well beyond statistics available about standardized testing results and the number of advanced or honors level courses offered.

Not exact matches

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

He also accused the governor of «demonizing» teachers and «moving down the wrong path» on standardized testing, though Cuomo has recently done an about - face on that issue, most notably calling — through his latest reform task force — for a moratorium on linking test results and teacher performance evaluations.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

There are legitimate complaints about the ways in which states are using the results of standardized tests.

The results of this new research demonstrate that the potential benefits of increased teacher diversity extend well beyond standardized test scores, raising important questions about lost opportunities caused by the underrepresentation of minority teachers in America today.

a broad agreement about their mission and purpose — everyone's there to get high scores on standardized tests, everyone's in agreement about the need for results, and everyone's bought into how these results will be obtained.

The corporate world provides useful data about simulations designed to change behavior and obtain results (which is exactly what we hope will be learned in many situations but is something that few, if any, of our standardized achievement tests measure).

They also raise important questions about the government's reliance on standardized test results as a guide for regulating the options available to families.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Sadly, results from standardized test most often tell us more about the family and community economics in which a student lives than how much a student knows or can do.

Of course standardized tests can be used as part of a comprehensive assessment system but they should not make up the majority of the system, nor should their results be used as the deciding factor to make important decisions about students and educators, as is being done in NJ.

According to this year's standardized test results, statewide nearly 10 percent of English learners met or exceeded the English language arts standards, and about 9 percent did so in math.

What we're going to say about the latest release of standardized testing results for Harford County Public Schools students we've said many times in the past on similar occasions.

Because classroom teachers can effectively use all available assessment methods, including the more labor - intensive methods of performance assessment and personal communication, they can provide information about student progress not typically available from student information systems or standardized test results.

As more and more parents choose to opt their children out of standardized tests, some educators and teachers» union representatives have been speculating about how all those missing scores might impact teacher - evaluation outcomes that are based on test results.

In about 2 weeks, Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

Each year educators raise concerns about the limitations of standardized testing and the downside of «teaching to the test» while policymakers and commentators discuss and pontificate about the «shockingly poor results.»

Click here» In about 2 weeks, Wisconsin educator Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

Earlier this week, some data about the results of some international standardized test scores were released.

Something I talk about in my first book is something that concerns me — especially with standardized assessments — is that we try to boil schools, students, teachers down to one test result.

Facing push back from teachers and parents about the pace and nature of education reforms, Governor Malloy was forced to call for a «slow down» in the pace of reforms, especially tying teacher evaluations to standardized test results.

TRENTON — New Jersey's public school students racked up slightly higher test scores in most grades in the 2010 - 11 school year, despite Gov. Chris Christie's cutting about $ 1 billion in state aid to schools that year, according to standardized test results released today by the state Board of Education.

The SARC contains useful and important information about the school, such as school demographics, conditions of learning and standardized testing results, to name a few.

But they have expressed reservations about value - added analysis, saying it is unreliable because it depends on flawed standardized test results.

When thinking about school quality, many people tend to gravitate to a single measure: results on standardized tests.

Written by Carrie Wilson, Executive Director (more about Carrie) After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests can not be...