Sentences with phrase «absolute student test performance»

For starters, not just absolute student test performance should be taken into account, but also how much students grow over the course of a year.

Not exact matches

The PISA 2015 test results have brought more bad news for Australia's education system with student performances in scientific, reading and mathematical literacy all in «absolute decline».

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.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are ranked by the trend, not the absolute level, of their students» performance on the standardized reading and math tests.

While U.S. students» performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests improved in absolute terms between 1995 and 2011, U.S. progress was not sufficiently rapid to allow it to catch up with the leaders of the industrialized world.

The idea, roughly, is that one uses the student's earlier test score as a control for the later, so that one measures learning (that is, change across time) and not just students» absolute performance.

The 2010 program's «absolute priority 1» required districts to set up performance - based compensation systems tied closely — though exactly how closely was not specified — to student growth as measured by performance on standardized tests.