Sentences with phrase «based on state test»

The report cards rate public schools for the first time on a scale of 0 to 100 based on state test scores and other factors, such as graduation rates, attendance and progress on closing achievement gaps.

The law was amended in 1999 under Gov. Gray Davis, requiring school boards to evaluate teachers based on state test scores as they «reasonably relate» to a teacher's classroom performance, a vague term that effectively made it easy for districts to avoid the law.

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Assessments that provide direct evidence of what students can do related to the specific curriculum they are taught can be more accurate and productive than the value - added metrics based on state test scores that are currently popular.

That measure, called Academic Growth Over Time, uses a mathematical formula to estimate how much a teacher helps students» performance, based on state test scores and controlling for such outside factors as income and race.

• Lincoln Elementary, a school with a large percentage of low - income students, was flagged this year as a low - performing «focus» school under the state's new accountability system based on state test scores.

Deal reached in Albany gives educators two - year break from low ratings based on state test scores

And what is their reaction to «student growth percentiles» (SGP), a new yardstick based on state test scores?

Nerad's letter said the designation is based partly on student achievement, student growth, closing achievement gaps and on - track graduation and post-secondary readiness, but DPI spokesman John Johnson clarified that the designation is solely based on state test scores and 2011 graduation rates.

The percentage of Blue Ribbon Schools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study concludes.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

Later that same day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core task force released its recommendations, including a four - year moratorium on the use of state - provided growth scores based on state tests in evaluations.

The state wants 80 percent of all students and student subgroups to score at a level demonstrating that they are on track for postsecondary readiness by 2024 - 25, based on state tests; also wants all students and student subgroups to graduate at a 90 percent clip by the same year.

This assessment is based on state tests, using a value - added model that applies statistical analysis to students» past test scores to determine how much they are likely to grow on average in the next year.

Otherwise, she said the report cards are of limited use because they are based on state tests that will be replaced over the next two years.

Here is the data on your students based on the state testing.

An appropriate warning might alert educators to the fact that VAM ratings based on state tests are more likely to be informative for students already at grade level, and least likely to display the gains of students who are above or below grade level in their knowledge and skills.

Half of that should be based on state tests, and half on measures selected by local districts.

Not exact matches

Our overall evaluation scores are also often based on our students» performance on state tests.

Hyrdro Flask states that their containers can keep warm beverages warm for 6 hours; that's a conservative estimate based on my test, but theirs was probably more stringent.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

About the ratings: GreatSchools ratings are based on a comparison of test results for all schools in the state.

To test whether mortgage rates in Pennsylvania change according to city, we asked the state's biggest lenders for purchase mortgage rates in four cities, based on the same $ 170,000 loan profile used above.

I'm in my final semester in the Colorado State MBA program, and our capstone class is based on the BMG Canvas and the build - test - learn cycle.

«Many [Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards] contain test procedures that are based on the assumed presence of a human driver, and will therefore likely need to be amended to accommodate vehicles that can not be driven by humans,» the notice states.

But various historians, many of them «secular», have stated that based on the various tests for historic reliability, the Gospels are some of the most historically reliable documents of that time period.

You stated: «As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.»

This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

With states and counties showing increased interest in adopting evidence - based methods for preventing or reducing child maltreatment and for parent training of families involved with child welfare services, it is now time to test this array of science - informed and promising parent training programs and program components on a national scale.

The state has put a moratorium on counting Common Core - based tests toward teacher performance reviews as a possible overhaul at the Department of Education is underway for the standards.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York State Assembly.

In June, Cuomo and legislative leaders announce agreement on a two - year moratorium on state rules that teachers would be fired based on «ineffective» ratings due to test scores.

So Mr. Obama's re-election team is sifting through reams of data available through the Internet or fed to it by its hundreds of staff members on the ground in all 50 states, identifying past or potential supporters and donors and testing e-mail and Web - based messages that can entice them back into the fold.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

The state proposal would allow the health commissioner to determine what contaminants should be tested for, excluding or including different ones on a county, regional or local basis.

Under the new «emergency regulation,» educators still would get annual «growth» scores from Albany based on results of state tests given during the moratorium, but the scores would be advisory.

The notion was backed up by the American Statistical Association, which previously said the formula the state uses to calculate student growth based on test scores should not be used in teacher evaluations.

Parent groups want Cuomo and state lawmakers to repeal the tough teacher - evaluation law passed last spring, which bases up to about half of teachers ratings on student test results.

He proposed revising teacher evaluations with half their scores based on their students» scores on state tests, up from 20 percent, and half based on classroom observations.

«We absolutely want computer - based testing to come to a halt until the state can figure out what is going on,» Jolene DiBrango, the union's executive vice president, said Thursday.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

Under King, New York became the second state in the country to begin testing students based on the Common Core curriculum standards.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

At least 20 percent of the evaluations have to be based on student performance on the state tests.

Educators who teach English and math to third through eighth graders will be evaluated based partially on the federally required state tests in those grades and subjects.

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York state Assembly.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Regent Roger Tilles, seen in Albany on March 12, said Monday that voting against legislation to repeal the state's requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on student testing would be «suicide» on Long Island.