Sentences with phrase «achievement through standardized testing»

This accreditation includes assessing student achievement through standardized testing.

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New City administers the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), a nationally standardized test of achievement, in 2nd through 5th graTest of Basic Skills (ITBS), a nationally standardized test of achievement, in 2nd through 5th gratest of achievement, in 2nd through 5th grades.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

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.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

These schools — run by Achievement First — have shown repeated success in bringing academic excellence to public schooling through standardized curriculum and utilizing aggressive testing.

The direct instruction (DI) model proved to be eminently trainable to teachers under experimental conditions, effective in promoting student engagement in classroom tasks as demonstrated through classroom observations, and statistically significantly related to growth in pupil achievement as measured on standardized tests (Myer, 1988).

As Carrie Upshaw, the president of Kingsport's board of education said sarcastically during the convocation celebration before the school year started last August, «We can survive whatever achievement autopsies and standardized tests that come our way, and we can get through the «Road to Insanity.