Sentences with phrase «administer state achievement tests»

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Participating private schools should be required to administer and report results from the state achievement tests.

These achievements in Massachusetts and Florida aren't simply improvements on state tests, which could be subject to manipulation, but are confirmed by progress on national tests administered in those states.

NCLB requires each state to develop content and achievement standards in several subjects, administer tests to measure students» progress toward these standards, develop targets for performance on these tests, and impose a series of interventions on schools and districts that do not meet the targets.

Many achievement tests created and administered at the state level — such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), or the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments — use criterion - referenced scoring.

And in the vast realm of regulation, perhaps the touchiest will turn out to be (or so we've been admonished by the critics and worry - warts mentioned above) the requirement that private schools administer state tests and be held publicly accountable for student achievement as measured by such tests.

Ensuring Fairer and Better Tests Under Title I - A The first proposed regulation focuses on ensuring states continue to administer tests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabiliTests Under Title I - A The first proposed regulation focuses on ensuring states continue to administer tests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabilitests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabilities.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

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.

These school grades are based primarily on the achievement of students from different demographic strata of the state - administered Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests (FCAT) focusing primarily on reading and mathematics.

The reports compare teachers of fourth through eighth grades — the grades during which state math and English tests are administered — and then make predictions whether the students» achievement will improve.

Muir says that although the school did administer a standardized achievement test, that program did not: 1) provide a sufficient measure of proficiency against state requirements; 2) enable progress monitoring; or 3) include math - skills benchmarking.

Today many schools administer a standardized achievement test to prepare for their state's annual NCLB assessment.

It also required the State board to withdraw from PARCC and select an existing nationally administered standardized test that is currently accepted as a high school achievement and college entrance exam.

Hence, and also as per the National Research Council (NRC), «it is not feasible to compare «the full array of currently administered commercial and state achievement tests to one another, through the development of a single equivalency or linking scale.»

Reading and mathematics tests are administered every two years and provide a means of comparing the progress of states in raising student achievement.