Sentences with phrase «around test scores»

Rocky Mount's Williford Elementary is one of six schools included on a short - list for the Innovative School District (ISD), which could allow for - profit, charter management organizations to ink five - year contracts with the state in hopes of turning around test scores at selected low - performing schools.

When Appalachian State University opens its Academy at Middle Fork to 300 chosen elementary students in Winston - Salem this August, by some accounts, it'll be one of several pioneering, university - led efforts bound to turn around test scores for lagging North Carolina children in the coming years.

This proposal would eliminate most gaming around test scores.

Not exact matches

The world of education revolves around tests and test scores.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Fat helps make yoghurt appealingly thick and creamy, so it's not surprising that the three highest scoring Greek yoghurts in our test are among those highest in fat, hovering around 9 — 10g per 100g.

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

Too often, parents come to the meeting expecting the discussion to revolve around their child's test scores, Ekert says.

But she admitted there is still a large gap in the test scores of children from richer schools, where around two - thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

The state committed to adopting the Common Core standards, tying teacher evaluations to test scores, turning around or closing low - performing schools and increasing the number of charter schools, among other things.

Overall, students from richer schools score higher on the tests, around half are considered to have passed the exams.

But she admits there's still a large gap in the tests scores of children from richer schools, where around two thirds scored highly on the tests, and the results in poorer schools.

19 Ohio State University psychologist Terri Fisher tested the oft - repeated claim that men think about sex every seven seconds (which translates to 8,000 instances daily) by having 283 students carry around a golf - score counter and click each time they thought about sex, food, or sleep.

There are several reasons for the variation, including whether courts take into account the measurement error inherent in IQ scores — the fact that an individual, tested repeatedly, would not achieve the same score every time, but rather a distribution of scores clustered around their «true» IQ.

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

The research studied the reading test scores of more than 200,000 15 - year - olds from over 8,000 mixed - sex schools around the world.

In fact, the correlations between baseline and follow - up test scores in New York consistently hover around 0.7.

M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

If this practice were the case, the greatest fall - to - spring achievement gains would occur among students around the threshold, while other students would struggle to match expected test - score gains.

Around 25 percent of schools that had scored in the bottom quarter nationally on the test were rated Outstanding or Good during the 2006 to 2009 period.

My main finding is that receiving a fail inspection rating leads to test - score improvements of around 0.1 standard deviations.

And adapting the models to accommodate a project requires a lot of skill — and bravery, if the publisher claims you won't get the promised test score gains if you monkey around with their sequence and instructional methods!

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

The Educational Records Bureau, a Wellesley, Mass., research and subject - matter testing group for private schools and suburban public schools, will jump into the admission market with an exam promising a better candidate profile, a timed essay, and a 72 - hour turn - around time on test scores, among other features.

Rather, Duncan's much - touted «loose - tight» proposal entails jettisoning NCLB's overdone remedy cascade for most schools in return for a more prescriptive federal role in «turning around» schools that score in the bottom five percent on tested achievement.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the schools that have larger kindergarten readiness gaps also have larger test score gaps in third and fifth grades: as the kindergarten readiness gap increases by 10 percentage points, the test score gaps increase by around 0.06 of a standard deviation.

In this latter paper, Reardon and coauthors report that while racial / ethnic test score gaps average around 0.6 standard deviations across all school districts, in some districts the gaps are almost nonexistent while in others they exceed 1.2 standard deviations.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

Urban school districts in particular have begun to show considerable progress in raising test scores and turning around low - performing schools.»

For the 11 schools with kindergarten readiness gaps of around 30 percentage points, test score gaps range from less than third of a standard deviation to over 1.5 standard deviations.

Both tests were administered in 2015, and the new scores will be released around the Thanksgiving - Christmas period of 2016.

In such circumstances, it is difficult to avoid statistical «mischief» and false negatives because test scores can bounce around from year to year for reasons other than genuine changes in student achievement.

First, it would provide immediate scoring of tests, getting around current delays in test scoring.

Ask any high school student in a well - heeled suburban community around the United States the best strategy for applying to college, and chances are you'll hear something like this: apply to several schools, most with students whose grades and test scores are similar to your own.

To analyze the program's impact on public schools, we collected school - level test scores on the 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 administrations of the FCAT and the Stanford - 9, a national norm - referenced test that is given to all Florida public school students around the same time as the FCAT.

If we really offered our children some great future - oriented content (such as, for example, that they could learn about nanotechnology, bioethics, genetic medicine, and neuroscience in neat interactive ways from real experts), and they could develop their skills in programming, knowledge filtering, using their connectivity, and maximizing their hardware, and that they could do so with cutting - edge, powerful, miniaturized, customizable, and one - to - one technology, I bet they would complete the «standard» curriculum in half the time it now takes, with high test scores all around.

In Shanghai, for example — which had the highest mean PISA score of any jurisdiction in mathematics in 2012 — 27 percent of students in the target population of 15 - year - olds did not take the test, due in part to internal migration policies that prevented enrollment; in the United States, that exclusion rate was around 11 percent.

-- those kinds of conversations around data can lead to much more productive work than the ones that are focused on «[let's use] data to think about how we're going to improve test scores».

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

LIST: In just a nine - month program, we can move an Hispanic student from around the 30th percentile in test scores to above the 50th percentile in test scores.

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.

A: For subjects tested by the state standardized assessment, New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing a student's growth to the growth made by that student's academic peers (students from around the state with similar score histories).

«While England's brightest pupils score around average in international tests — and better in science — this analysis shows that there are some very big socio - economic gaps in attainment between the brightest pupils from poor and better - off homes.