Sentences with phrase «against test scores»

Through their accounts, Rizga makes a strong case against test scores as a way to monitor individual learning and for teachers being in charge of school reform and accountability.

Not exact matches

Passed a big test against Manchester City and faces another one against the free - scoring Italians.

However, despite owning the 4th best scoring defense in the nation, MSU will be put to the test against Russell Wilson and the high - flying Badgers attack who possess the # 1 offense in the country (50.2 PPG).

KEY FACT: Newcastle have won only three points from their last 57 available in the Premier League against Man City MATCH ODDS: Newcastle 12/1 Draw 23/4 Man City 1/4 bet365 Pick: Man City to win and Both Teams to Score @ 8/5 ANDY SAYS: Have to go with City, don't see Newcastle testing them too much... 0 - 3 GRAEME SAYS: Has to be an away win, but might not be as easy as some think... 0 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Comfortable City victory — easy three points for me... 0 - 4 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Under # 4 — why isn't Kevin De Bruyne higher?

Bournemouth are on the slide and their mental toughness will be severely tested here against this well drilled West Brom side who've scored plenty of goals on home soil this season.

There's no bigger test of their defence right now than a game against Chelsea, who are scoring goals for fun, especially at the Bridge.

Fresh from scoring in back - to - back fixtures for Southampton Under - 23s, Callum Slattery is relishing the chance to test himself against senior opposition when Saints travel to Cambridge United on Tuesday evening.

City had a decent test against Napoli at the Etihad in the first meeting, but they prevailed and Man City to win & Both teams to score returns a price of 13/5 at bet365 for an option.

Toni Kroos has been the player of the tournament so far, Manuel Neuer has barely been tested and Mario Gómez looked much sharper versus Slovakia than in his first start against Northern Ireland, but he scored in both regardless.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

«We need, rather than a competitive system, pitting schools against each other over test scores, we need a system that embraces all children.

De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan wouldn't comment on the possibility of running against Donovan, but cited a record the mayor will run on next year that includes, «crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.»

That report's recommendations, many of which were adopted into state law and regulations, included a ban on state testing for students before third grade and a restriction against including scores from new Common Core tests on students» permanent records.

She said her run against Cuomo would be built on a critique of his use of high - dollar campaign donations and his support for linking teacher performance evaluations to student test scores.

Commissioner King was asked on the teleconference call whether he thought the second year of low test scores would further fuel the backlash against Common Core.

The low test scores will not count against students.

That is, there are no benchmark statistics against which to measure employees, so we don't know whether the score on a test is above or below or about average.

The team built a high - throughput cell - editing platform using a variant of CRISPR / Cas9 technology that allowed them to test how well scores of different genetic tweaks defended immune cells against HIV.

An analysis of published studies found no evidence that low - dose aspirin buffers against cognitive decline or dementia or improves cognitive test scores.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

Specifically, the placebo group scored an average of 9.7 on the test against 13.7 for the creatine - supplemented group.

Because each state selects its own testing system and sets its own passing scores, there is no direct way to compare the proficiency levels established by one state against the others.

When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other models must justify themselves.

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

While Indiana had fine standards on the books, the assessments it has used to track student and school performance against those standards aren't great and the scores needed to pass those tests have been set low.

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

If we can't reliably use rigorously identified test score gains to predict later life outcomes, then on what basis will regulators be able to judge quality to protect families against making bad choices?

These are familiar arguments against testing, cases of individuals who do not «test well» or who fall just below a cut - off score for qualification.

We know of no legitimate statistical text that argues it is irrelevant to use tests of statistical significance to guard against random fluctuations in the data - in this case, scores on tests of student performance.

Images of such schools are set against descriptions of schools in which intellectual engagement is driven out by rote memorization and motivation by grades and test scores.

Our resulting four - category classifications might be biasing our findings against the true power of test score results to predict attainment results, as it is mathematically more difficult perfectly to match one of four outcome categories than it is to match one of three.

We can mitigate against students» acquiring this damaging mindset by helping them understand that any one test on a subject does not demonstrate all of the understanding and knowledge they have developed — and then adapting our grading, scoring and performance reporting accordingly.

Instead, most tests are scored by hand, to ensure that student performance is judged against sophisticated criteria.

In a series of important posts, Jay Greene made a strong case against accountability systems that lean too heavily on test scores.

Two teachers who lost their jobs because of the Educational Testing Service's incorrect scoring of their Praxis II exams have filed suit against the test - maker, claiming it is a monopoly that is abusing its powers and charging excessive fees.

The group says it was trying to illustrate why it doesn't want Congress to let the testing program's scores become the standard against which state tests are compared.

As the arguments for and against the Arizona ballot question have unfurled in recent months, the California measure's effect on test scores has attracted widespread attention.

In this report, we use 2007 test - score information to evaluate the rigor of each state's proficiency standards against the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an achievement measure that is recognized nationally and has international credibility as well.

This tendency is created by nonrandom error in the test scores, which can be especially troublesome when scores are «bumping» against the top or the bottom of the test - score scale.

We developed a measure of how unusual the fluctuations in test scores are by ranking each classroom's average test - score gains against all other classrooms in that same subject, grade, and year.

For example, although there is evidence of test score gains, our committee cautioned against premature causal explanations or policy advice based on impressionistic evidence.

Standardized test scores allow parents to compare the performance of their own child and the average performance of their child's school against the performance of students in the same grade in other schools around the state and nationwide.

This figure plots treatment - control differences in test score means against treatment - control differences in years in charter (Panel A) or pilot (Panel B).

State law says Louisiana's 2014 - 15 exams must be «based on nationally recognized content standards» and scored against national norms, and that Common Core and the consortium's test fit the bill.

Obama's Education Department used its federal power to coerce states to adopt the Common Core State Standards, expand charter schools and use student test scores to evaluate teachers, an assessment method that experts warned against.

Teachers must fight, politically and legally, against evaluations where the administrators who set policies unilaterally determine whether it was the fault of those policies or the individual teacher for not meeting test score growth targets.

The legal action taken by these seven Florida educators will undoubtedly add to the growing momentum against misguided accountability systems that rob students of actual learning and tangle up teachers» performance evaluations with unreliable test scores.

The firms, Larson King, Zimmerman Reed, and McSweeny & Fay, have already successfully settled in a case against Pearson involving incorrect scoring on a Minnesota state test

More Than a Score, the coalition of parents, teachers and education experts supported by the National Education Union, is campaigning against our current test - driven system of primary education.