Sentences with phrase «based exam system»

The new GCSEs will push for a more stretching, essay - based exam system, reminiscent of O - levels, taken by pupils until the late 1980s.

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The proposed amendment would also protect exempt employees who do not have to take civil service exams and whose pay is not based on a graded system.

Under the budget language, the department would be required to develop a new evaluation system based on a «matrix» model, which would include student performance on state exams as well as observations but differs from the current model in that it is not based on percentages.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

This is very different from the MCT - based accountability systems of the 1970s, under which students were held accountable, for example, for passing a high school exit exam if they were to receive a regular high school diploma.

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There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

While a number of states, including Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and possibly California, are phasing in or plan to develop a system of rigorous curriculum - based external exams, most states have chosen instead to administer minimum - competency exams.

Curriculum - based external exit exam systems had by far the greatest effects on test scores.

Using student - level data on first - time students who enrolled from fall 2008 to spring 2012 in the University of Alaska (UA) system, this study provides information on the degree to which UA students are considered ready for college coursework based on their exam performance.

States have joined those two standardized testing groups to give exams on Common Core standards — West Virginia is set to give a Smarter Balanced version for the first time this spring, though the state will delay, for at least this school year and the next, labeling schools with its new A-F grading system, which is based in part on the test.

NAF's Student Certification Assessment System (SCAS) includes an internship assessment, end - of - course exams, evidence - based portfolios, and supervisor and teacher feedback.

From the time they enroll, we can provide newcomer students and their families with information — in their home language — about the grade - based promotion system, high school graduation requirements, standardized testing, college applications, high school exit exams, and the process of class programming.

Research shows that students who participate in the DP are more academically prepared for the rigors of a heavy college course load and the corresponding work, have the ability to manage their time better and are prepared for exam - based grading systems — all of which impact a student's college persistence.

Benally said the testing is the first phase of making sure the exam will fullfil the federal requirements in the «No Child Left Behind Act» and peer - reviewing for a standards - based assessment system.

A revised set of GCSE exams are going to be graded by numbers - from 9 down to 1 - rather than the current letter - based system in a process that will be phased in from next year.

While New Jersey moves toward a new school testing system in 2015, it is staying with a North Carolina - based company to conduct two more years of the state's decade - old high school exit exam and its alternative test.

And last year, the Florida Education Association and the National Education Association filed suit arguing that the state's teacher evaluation system, which requires that at least 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on students» test scores from the state standardized exams, is unconstitutional.

An education reform bill circulating this week would require kindergarten screening exams and teacher evaluations based partly on test scores, but doesn't update the state's system for holding schools accountable for student performance.

Along with replacing paper - based tests on English language arts / literacy (ELA) and mathematics with the new computer - based California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) tests, California has created a new online reporting system that will provide permissioned users with partial, preliminary scores within three weeks of students having completed the exam.

OCR is considering recruiting markers based overseas — in countries with similar exam systems, such as New Zealand — to ease the shortage.

With these assessments, New Hampshire's system of competency based learning will show mastery and growth more accurately than a single end of year exam or state assessment.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&rBased Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&rbased education] environment.»

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

While lower secondary school entrance exams were abolished in 1969 and the ministry of education has loosened up the system of competitive test - based upper secondary school and college admission, there is still considerable focus on exams.

We find that an accountability system based on a low - level test of basic skills apparently led to reduced performance by high - achieving students, while an accountability system based on a more challenging criterion - referenced exam apparently led to improved performance in college on mathematics and other technical subjects.

The new system rates teachers as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective based on a mix of classroom observations, students» growth on state exams and locally developed tests or measures.

Controlled assessments (coursework done under exam conditions) will be scrapped and exams will be based on a more stretching, essay - based system.

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Based on the physical exam findings, we may recommend diagnostic testing to assess your pet's kidneys, liver, pancreas and endocrine system, including thyroid and endocrine glands.

Both countries had organized their university systems based on the principle of open access, i.e., without entry exams and without numerus clausus.

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