Sentences with phrase «based on the test scores»

I suspect our teacher unions would not be adverse to let some portion of their member teachers compensation be based on a test score bonus rather than the meddling of school boards.

Winners are chosen from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists based on test scores, academic record and an essay.

The Department must hire among the top three candidates remaining on the list, based on test score.

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.

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.

Just about the same percentage of voters say teacher tenure should not be based on test scores either.

The state aid increase should not have been tied to the governor's teacher evaluation proposal, which in turn should not be increasingly based on test scores, said David Gamberg, who is superintendent of both the Greenport and Southold districts.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

Our intelligent matchmaking system sorts users based on test scores, location, education and...

It would seem that the ongoing discussions about «teacher effectiveness» and the creation of evaluation systems focused on measuring a teacher's capacity (increasingly based on test scores) often do very little to actually develop that capacity.

When we clump children together into a single diagnostic category based on test scores, we not only fail to address what might be causing the dyslexia, but we also ignore variability in performance that limits our ability to identify individual differences.

If they are going to pick the school choice winners and losers based on test scores, then test scores need to be strongly predictive of other things we care about.

«No serious reformer says accountability should just be based on test scores.

It's important to emphasize how crude and inaccurate decisions based on test scores typically are, rather than to imagine them to be as sophisticated as analyses found in leading journals (which are still quite imperfect).

This component makes up 50 and 75 percent of the overall evaluation scores in the districts we studied, and much less is known about observation - based measures of teacher performance than about value - added measures based on test scores.

In our new study, published today in Education Next, my colleagues and I found that only 22 percent of teachers were evaluated based on test score gains in the four urban school districts we studied.

We also left ourselves open to grossly misleading claims about our policies, such as the myth that we advocated evaluating teacher performance based on test scores alone.

There are, of course, several other plausible explanations for why South Carolinians voted based on test score performance in 2000 but not in 2002 and 2004.

By a 10 - 2 vote, the Senate education committee approved a bill last week that would not only change the state tests students take, but also erase several years» worth of judgments about school effectiveness that have been made based on the test scores.

Districts originally created tests in these subjects so that they would be able to evaluate teachers in these fields based on test scores.

Can one believe that the practices of those millions can be changed for the better by the competition of charter schools (1.5 million children versus 50 million in district schools), by promotion and compensation and dismissal based on test scores of their classes, by the elimination of «last in, first out» layoff rules?

With 85 percent of a school's grade based on test scores — and 60 percent of the total based on test score growth — the report cards, for good or for ill, left little room for doubt that testing was king.

Every student brought a base dollar amount, as well as additional funding based on their test scores, and principals were given expanded authority to allocate those dollars as they saw fit.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

She also wrongly asserts that students from the Calvary Christian school would need to score in the top 4 percent of the SAT II (now called SAT Subject Tests) to gain admittance based on test scores.

Design and provide ongoing, sustained professional development for teachers based on test score data.

The study says: ``... schools were more likely to be renewed if they had a higher [SPS](a state - determined school accountability measure based on test score levels), higher school value - added, or a higher NACSA rating (emphasis added).»

With the baseline controls, using the factor model, an SD increase in the teacher factor based on test scores has a predictive effect on college attendance of 0.16 percentage points.

The predictive effects for test scores based on the test scores of other classes are and.

For notation in the factor model, let where the factors are based on the test score, as in Eq.

Teachers also would continue to be eligible for bonuses worth thousands of dollars based on test scores.

This flexibility suggests finding a lower bound on the mean square error for linear prediction of from factors based on test scores.

In truth, as Jon Schnur, the original architect of Obama's Race to the Top initiative puts it, «No serious reformer says accountability should just be based on test scores.

So why all the alarmist rhetoric by groups like bellwether that our schools are failing and need radical revamping through privatization, teacher evaluation based on test scores and the common core?

Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students» learning.

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.

The problem stems from parents» concern that their own children might be denied promotion or graduation based on a test score; from voters» confusion when their own upscale suburban schools are deemed to be failing by state or federal accountability systems even though most of the graduates do just fine; and from frustration when parents — often prompted by teachers — conclude that the basic - skills testing regime yields too much «drill and kill,» too little flexibility, and insufficient attention to art, music, and other creative disciplines.

The release Thursday of the results on the state's Academic Performance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scores alone.

The analysis was based on test scores in Grade 2 through 5 at 450 of Los Angeles» approximately 500 elementary schools.

The lawsuit contends that teachers» evaluations based on the test scores of students they do not teach or based on subjects they do no teach violate the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

With mountains of learning data at our disposal and an easy way to visualize it, we can make big changes to an education system that still turns out large numbers of folks who undervalue their intelligence based on their test scores.

Extra caution should be exercised when making policy decisions based on test score outcomes.

But if we all agree that it's insane to measure teachers based on test scores alone, why should we keep doing that for schools?

At least 18 states have adopted simple report cards for schools based on test scores and graduation rates.

This evidence, along with a new federal requirement that state accountability systems include an indicator of school quality or student success not based on test scores, has sparked interest in incorporating such «non-cognitive» or «social - emotional» skills into school accountability systems.

Los Angeles Times publishes teacher evaluations based on test scores.

It compared schools that fell just short of receiving a SIG grant based on their test scores with schools that received SIG grants.

And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers — based on the test scores of the schools they oversee — is a good conversation starter.

One key part of the New Orleans reforms was the idea that the state would shut down schools within three to five years if they did not generate a high enough School Performance Score, a measure based on test scores and graduation rates.

And of course, last but not least, CTU President Karen Lewis brought it all together with a call to stop the overtesting, the labeling and the school closings based on test scores.