Sentences with phrase «at student test score»

As part of each teacher's regular evaluation, some districts already look at student test score data that demonstrate how much students advanced while working with that teacher (value - added data).

The new system will rate teachers by looking at student test score data, as well as the scores teachers receive from observations conducted by administrators.

They looked not only at student test score gains, but also at years of teacher experience and teacher licensing exam scores.

Looking only at student test scores will not do that.

«There is nothing in New York state's law that prevents looking at student test scores [as one of many factors] to determine teacher effectiveness» Mr. Iannuzzi said.

Not exact matches

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

The ACT composite score at Stevenson in 2001 was 24.7, with 88 percent of students tested, Galloway said.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

Duckworth was a co-author on a paper published last year that compared self - reporting on grit, self - control and conscientiousness with actual test scores and behavior data of students at 32 Boston schools.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Studies have shown that students who eat breakfast at school score better on standardized tests and skip school or are tardy less often.

While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college - bound students will need to take at least one of these tests.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

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 ACT has scheduled a makeup exam on Jan. 14 for 53 students whose answer sheets went missing after taking the test at Roslyn High School in October, which has left them lacking scores to submit on their college applications.

At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will host a press conference to discuss New York City students» state test scores, Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

He says the commission should also look at changing a new requirement that 144 struggling schools in danger of state receivership be judged by their students» test scores and whether or not they opt out of the tests.

The speech typically includes an argument that Success values progressive educational values over test scores, a joke about what might happen if Success students were allowed to voluntarily attend school, and a swipe at the de Blasio administration.

«Under Mayor de Blasio, graduation rates are at record highs, test scores are up, universal pre-kindergarten is available to every 4 - year - old, and advanced - placement and computer - science courses are becoming available to all students.

Sheri Lederman, a fourth grade teacher at a Great Neck elementary school, wants to sue the state education department for personal injury after receiving an «ineffective» job rating due to student test scores.

While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70 percent of incoming kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.

«The data points shouldn't be test scores but parent engagement, the amount of [student] suspensions, and the improvements made at struggling schools.»

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

The idea is simple enough: A VAM looks at year - to - year changes in standardized test scores among students, and rates those students» teachers and schools accordingly.

Yet as the years passed, test scores made it clear that students deft at creating Venn diagrams had trouble with simple addition and multiplication, never mind long division.

«Assessing the potential of students to be successful in STEM fields goes beyond just looking at tests scores and grades, though these are important,» Malcom said.

However, Anthony Carnevale, vice president for assessments, equity, and careers at the Educational Testing Service, disagrees, saying many lower - income students — with slightly lower SAT scores — could succeed at elite institutions.10

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

Enter Jane Chase (Shue, playing a character apparently named after Tarzan's commonlaw wife and for her function in the film's second half), a student at the college where Dr. Phillip teaches who's there through some kind of ill - fated scholarship program rewarding legendarily bad test scores.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

Students score higher on standardized tests, engage in healthier behaviors at home, increase their community involvement, and report more engagement in the classroom.

Now, results from the tests students took last spring won't be available until at least February after the state school board discovered a problem that led to incorrect scores on the science portion of the 11th grade test, graded by San Antonio - based Harcourt Assessment.

But then researchers looking at student traits above and beyond IQ and test - scores birthed a revolution in «non-cognitive» factors in education.

EC students are considered eligible to advance to a class at a higher level if they obtain a compiled test score of 70 or above.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

At best, that focus gets only slight improvements in test scores, which does not necessarily translate into students being better readers, writers, and thinkers.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

«Instead of relying on intellect to produce good grades and high test scores,» Gauld writes in Character First: The Hyde School Difference, «students at Hyde learn to follow the dictates of their conscience so they can develop the character necessary to bring out their unique potential.»

At Summit Prep, 82 percent of students scored proficient or above on that test.

Participants scored at least 10 points higher in achievement tests than students who did not participate.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.