Sentences with phrase «achievement test scores across»

Improve students» achievement test scores across the spectrum by an average of 11 percentile points.

Not exact matches

In 2011, the second year of more rigorous scoring of state standardized tests, achievement dipped slightly across the state, according to figures just released by the state education department.

Reporting test - score levels will allow policymakers to clearly see absolute differences in achievement across schools, regardless of which growth measure is adopted.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

We find that the estimated gaps are strongly associated with the proportions of the test scores based on multiple - choice and constructed - response questions on state accountability tests, even when controlling for gender achievement gaps as measured by the NAEP or NWEA MAP assessments, which have the same item format across states.

Although processing speed across its full range has not shown a relationship to achievement, it is possible that subtest profiles with unusually weak or strong processing speed scores would display differential reading test performance.

The county has across - the - board high test scores and has significantly shrunk the black - white achievement gap.

Because student achievement levels vary upon entry across schools, student growth measures are better measures of the impact of a school on student learning than a proficiency rate or average scale test score.

Charter schools are raising the bar on student achievement for schools across Illinois by improving test scores, graduating more students from high school, and increasing college acceptance and persistence rates for all Illinois students.

These models, which consider student growth on standardized tests, fall roughly into four categories: «value - added models» that do not control for student background; models that do control for student background; models that compare teachers within rather than across schools; and student growth percentile (SGP) models, which measure the achievement of individual students compared to other students with similar test score histories.

Larry's 12 Powerful Words and UNRA (A) VEL strategies are known across the country for resulting in increased achievement and increased test scores.

Our study, «Relationships between Observations of Elementary Mathematics Instruction and Student Achievement: Exploring Variability across Districts» explores a potential explanation as to why differences in the relationships between classroom observation scores and student test scores exist across different contexts.

Eliminating school librarians from Atlanta schools would negatively affect reading and test scores, and student achievement across our city.