Sentences with phrase «as test scores»

Our lottery - based analysis of pilot effects looks at elementary - grade outcomes as well as test scores from middle and high school.

The results have been extraordinary: students and teachers report increased student engagement and learning as test scores have risen.

The picture is not as dire everywhere in the country as the test scores would suggest.

But the schools themselves are not doing as good a job as their test scores suggest.

But as all test scores rose, the achievement gap remained.

Researchers have looked at the impact on concrete measures such as test scores and attendance.

Finding a way to record these discussions can help to demonstrate academic development just as well as test scores and assignment marks.

However, controlling for the limited set of student characteristics available in school - district databases, such as test scores in the previous grade, is sufficient to account for the assignment of students to teachers based on parent characteristics.

Successfully implemented various student engagement practices in previous position as an assistant teacher that coincided with attendance improvement of over 18 percent as well as a test score improvement of 12 percent.

We found that this was not the case by examining the type of degrees offered at the schools students attended, as well as the test scores of incoming students, as a proxy for rigor and quality.

To Stevens, comments like those mean at least as much as test scores, because they suggest that the children are using their new aptitudes in daily life.

And that brings us to those unanswered questions: Can the charter - school movement grow to sufficient scale for long - term political sustainability if we continue to use «quality» — as measured by such factors as test scores — as the sole indicator of a successful school?

And their decision not to account for differences in education as well as test scores relies on one paper in the literature, contradicting the overwhelming practice of labor market economists.

The patient responded with strong vital signs for a time, as test scores climbed in the 1990s and achievement gaps narrowed.

Observation scores should be adjusted for student demographics, such as measures based as test scores already are.

Even if the outcomes of today's OSP participants are similar to those of a decade ago, the outcomes of non-participants in public schools may have changed significantly as test scores and graduation rates have trended upward.

And this last year, the test scores of California's immigrant students again rose more than twice as quickly as the test scores of the nonimmigrant students.

They tried to isolate how much any individual teacher adds or detracts by comparing how the students scored on end - of - year tests to how similar students did with other teachers, controlling for a host of such things as test scores in the prior year, gender, suspensions, English language knowledge, and class size.

A report earlier this month from the Education Trust didn't command as much attention as the test scores, but it's arguably even more important.

Six years ago, it appeared to provide a superior option to the nearest traditional elementary school, Fifty - Fourth Street Elementary, at least as far as test scores were concerned.

This year CPS has changed it up a bit by crying poor and «underutilized» using a bunch of data (100,000 «lost» city children, 50 % empty schools) that is just as fishy as the test scores.

In the past couple of decades, as test scores drop and the United States falls farther behind other countries in math and science, the idea that schools should follow a business model has been dominant, stressing competition, choice and accountability, raising teacher pay for higher test scores, closing schools that fail.

Value - added measures will better assess the effectiveness of programs serving teachers, and that of the teachers themselves, than will other measures — such as test score comparisons — which do not adjust for the characteristics of students.

As test scores correlate best with class status, this intensifies economic segregation.

Unfortunately, the growth in the number of non-teachers has not translated into student achievement as test scores have largely remained flat during this time period.

Washington Gov. Jay Inless has said he wants the bill to go a bit further - instead of just one A-to-F grade, schools should receive five of them based on such issues as test scores but also progress in closing the achievement gap and performance relative to similar schools.

«Hillary sees our students as whole human beings not as test scores,» Eskelsen Garcia said.

GreatSchools ratings are based on raw test scores, which correlate strongly with socioeconomic variables, as well as test score growth.

In this type of environment, test scores and grades of less able students who are good in computation, attentive in class, willing to help, and conscientious about completing all assignments carefully in the prescribed manner will often be as high as the test scores and grades of students who are genuinely talented in mathematics.

But in a «have you no shame» moment, the politician who said that that all teachers had to do was show up for four years to get tenure and that he doesn't mind having teachers teach to the test, as the long as the test scores go up, Tweeted a picture of himself holding a «#ThankaTeacher» sign while declaring it Teacher Appreciation Week in Connecticut.

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Even with the number of charter schools increasing, and testing as the overarching measure of a school's success becoming the norm, federally supported magnet schools still resonate with parents like Justin Jones who value diversity as much as test scores.

For in - person classes, an effective instructor in Math I lifts test scores in that course by 0.49 standard deviations, as well as test scores in Math II by 0.48 standard deviations.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

As Spence explained, the new degree is a unique and needed response to address the nation's troubled K - 12 system of public education, one that lags behind international peers when comparing graduation rates as well as test scores in math and other subject areas.

These church - based homeschool organizations can help you with record - keeping such as test scores and your daily homeschooling journal.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

Their thoughts about their daughters» maths ability were much more tied to actual maths achievements, such as test scores.

The best way to answer the question is to look at changes in student test - score performance among those in 3rd grade for the first time, as their test scores are unaffected by the retention policy.

As long as their test scores are up to snuff.

You're able to dictate what that command is, such as a test score or performance benchmark.

Inspectors combine hard metrics, such as test scores, with softer ones, such as observations of classroom teaching, in order to arrive at an overall judgment of school quality.

Teachers discuss and analyze student data such as test scores and achievement gaps, identifying areas in which students» needs aren't being adequately met and redesigning the curricula to meet those needs.

Vermont would become the first state in the nation to assess student performance on the basis of work portfolios, as well as test scores, under a proposal unveiled last week by the state's commissioner of education.