Sentences with phrase «average test scores rather»

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One possible explanation is that principals focus on the average test scores in a teacher's classroom rather than on student improvement.

Having a teacher from a good program rather than an average program will, on average, raise a student's test scores by 1 percentile point or less.

Here it is important to note again that a school's grades are based not on its overall average scale score but rather on the percentage of students meeting levels of proficiency and the percentage of students making adequate gains on the tests.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

The state also computes the average scores of all tested students, called mean scale scores, which reflects the progress of all students rather than only those who changed achievement levels from one year to the next.

A greater emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring that all students achieve at least one year of academic growth each year, rather than on what the average test score for a class or grade is on an assessment.

Rather than look at the percentage of students exceeding or meeting standards, some experts prefer to calculate average scores on the state tests.

The difference in test scores produced by the incentive system was about the same as that detected in earlier studies that measured differences in student performance when kids were taught by great teachers rather than average teachers.

After averaging out the scores of three tests, the quad - core processor achieved a rather lowly multi-core score of 1170 - well under half the performance of the LG G3.