Sentences with phrase «administer statewide standardized testing»

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

The transition to new assessments, though Colorado had been administering a statewide standardized test since 1997 opened the door for more regressive data sharing policies.

Not exact matches

At the center of these efforts is the statewide standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), administered to public school children in grades 3 to 10.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

In addition to Indiana's statewide standardized tests (ISTEP), the mayor's charter schools must administer nationally normed reading and math tests, for which the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is used.

These standardized tests were administered to students statewide for the first time in 2014 — 15 school year.

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.