Sentences with phrase «achievement test»

complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements as set forth in Section 22.1 - 19 of the Code of Virginia, and administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) or is a nonpublic school that maintains an assessment system that annually measures scholarship students» progress in reading and math using a national norm - referenced achievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Nevertheless, the re-emphasis on student achievement test scores that is reflected in federal legislation, including value - added teacher evaluation and student - competency laws, have contributed to the return of this practice in some jurisdictions.

If you do accept a standard score generated from an achievement test as an IQ score for that child, you again need to be aware of the test ceilings, and other weaknesses.

Under the proposed rules, teacher colleges will be motivated to steer their graduates away from school districts and schools that report low student achievement test scores, i.e., those serving poor and minority children and new learners of English.

· Fees for nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, advanced placement exams, or any exam related to post-secondary admissions;

A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter school fourth graders had lower scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test, than their counterparts in regular public schools.

We also linked the lottery data to publicly available CPS data on students» middle schools, including the percentage of 8th graders who scored proficient or better on the math section of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), the percentage scoring proficient or better on the reading section, and the percentage of black or Hispanic students.

The study found that students in the pilot districts posted bigger gains — and, in some cases, smaller losses — on the California Achievement Test than did students in other systems.

As long as students remain within the state, it is possible to track how well most of them are doing from one year to the next on the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT), the exam the state uses to comply with NCLB requirements.

The Illinois board of education, at the recommendation of state schools Superintendent Randy J. Dunn, was scheduled this week to consider terminating the state's contract with the company that administers the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

In 2005, Illinois Standard Achievement Test results for grades 3 through 8 showed a proficiency level of 76 percent in reading and 81 percent in math.

The New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) continues New York State's efforts to provide English Language Learners with a test that is consistent with the Common Core, the New Language Progressions, and current advances in the field of language assessment.

For the 2002 - 2003 through the 2005 - 2006 school year test administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade level.

The data show that SEL programs yielded a strong benefit in academic accomplishment, as demonstrated in achievement test results and grade - point averages.

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind - set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind - set.

Those, like Nevada's ESA, that require participating students to take their choice of several nationally norm - referenced (NNR) tests, like the Stanford Achievement Test or the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Additionally, the Academy is one of the top performing schools on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in the entire region.

Students of teachers who implemented MFAS over the course of the study performed significantly better on a mathematics achievement test than students of control teachers.

Psychologists Catherine Good, now at Baruch College, Joshua Aronson of New York University and Michael Inzlicht, now at the University of Toronto, reported in 2003 that a growth mind - set workshop raised the math and English achievement test scores of seventh graders.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

The effects of summer vacation on achievement test scores: A narrative and meta - analytic review.

In The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, Daniel Koretz says the pressure to raise achievement test scores often leads to outright cheating.

Achievement Test: A standardized test (usually multiple choice) that measures content - area knowledge (e.g., science, math, English, and social studies) and academic skills.

The intervention produced substantial gains in measured student achievement in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile in achievement test scores.

Conversely, to take another example, evidence from a district in Norfolk, Virginia, shows that resegregated schools led to a decline in the achievement test scores of children of all races.

Findings demonstrate that a standards - based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support.

In addition to submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test results.

Principal Joe Corcoran of Harriet Gifford Elementary in Elgin, Illinois, also used a program patterned after the game show to help his students «take the edge off» in preparation for the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT).

Sociologist Robert Carini's 2002 review of 17 studies found that «unionism leads to modestly higher standardized achievement test scores, and possibly enhanced prospects for graduation from high school.»

Bush's calls for an American Achievement Test in certain grades didn't make it through Congress.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

The other study (Perkes 1967) produced mixed results: students whose teachers took more subject - matter coursework reported higher scores on an achievement test, but lower scores on the STEP, a test of higher - order thinking.

Research has shown that after - school programs focused on social and emotional development can significantly enhance student self - perceptions, school connectedness, positive social behaviors, school grades, and achievement test scores, while reducing problem behaviors (Durlak et al., 2010).

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

TIMSS is the latest, largest, and most extensive international student achievement test ever conducted.

The absence of a statewide student achievement test limited the means by which the cost to Wyoming of such a high - performing school system could be determined.

As the authors of the meta - analysis point out, there are many known, malleable predictors of achievement test scores that have much higher associations with achievement than measures of grit, e.g., study skills, test anxiety, and learning strategies.

This appears to contradict Greene's claim that «attainment is a more meaningful indicator of long - term benefits than achievement test results.»

The fact that grit or other character skills may not be strongly predictive of achievement test results is not surprising if these non-cog measures capture something that is important independently of cognitive ability.

A new group, Educate America Inc., announces plans to develop a national achievement test for all high - school seniors, and to ask the Congress to fund it and make it mandatory.

The school board decided to require the two - hour reading block at 59 elementary and 12 middle schools where students average scores of 25 or less on the Stanford Achievement Test.

High school students in a half - dozen states are scoring much worse in reading on one version of the Stanford Achievement Test - 9th Edition than students in earlier grades.

Students in Illinois take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8, usually in March of each school year.

In addition we have an entire literature on pre-school and school choice suggesting that educational interventions can produce long - term success without improving short term achievement test scores (and vice versa).

Supporters also point to high test scores, but the editorial claims «there is no way to accurately compare voucher [sic] students with Florida public school students» because the latter are required to take the state achievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test or PSAT.

Although African American and Hispanic students had fairly similar scores on the baseline achievement test, students in these groups differed in a number of respects.

Moreover, while the researcher tasked with tracking the achievement of scholarship students was unable to make clear apples - to - apples comparisons with Florida public school students last year, he was able to do so in years past when Florida's public school students also took the nationally norm - referenced Stanford Achievement Test.

As an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scores.

The Florida Department of Education's Education Data Warehouse provides test scores from the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT) and demographic characteristics for all students in the public schools.

Following years of below - average scores on the state achievement test, King students began outscoring the state average in six out of seven subjects in 1999, and they even moved into the top third in some subjects.