Sentences with phrase «basis of standardized test»

How fair, then is it, for individual teachers to be judged strictly on the basis of standardized test results, without any of the other factors in a child's life being changed?

(excluding one that became an interdistrict magnet school) Non-charter public schools have not been so fortunate as they have had to follow strict federal and state rules and consequences, primarily on the basis of standardized test results.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

In recent years a school of thought arose in our space that a centralized authority or «harbor - master» could produce better outcomes by carefully controlling both the entrance and the exit of schools from charter sectors, primarily on the basis of standardized test scores.

Teachers and administrators are worried about being judged inappropriately on the bases of standardized tests (Paris & Urdan, 2000; Smith, 1991).

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He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

There are too many problems with standardized tests — how they are constructed, the baggage students bring into the testing room from their regular lives, etc. — to make any serious decisions based on their score of a single test.

Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

His proposals to determine the fate of teachers» pay and jobs and schools» funding and survival based on students» standardized test scores look like more pay - to - play politics in Albany.

Cuomo wants to change the way teacher evaluations are measured, he'd like to see at least half of a teacher's grade be based on standardized tests associated with the Common Core curriculum.

Presently, 25 percent of a teacher's evaluation is based on the results of standardized testing; Cuomo's plan would double that.

20 % of teacher evaluations will be based on student scores on standardized tests, and another 20 % of the teacher's grade will be based on standardized test scores, but there will be some leeway for interpreting those test scores.

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Another 65 percent of voters also did not feel that teacher tenure should be based on student standardized test performance versus 30 percent who did.

New York State United Teachers has begun organizing a plan to encourage parents to boycott the standardized tests that would be half of the basis for the new teacher evaluations.

Some 20 percent of the evaluation (25 percent after two years) would be based on student scores on standardized tests.

Arnone said the standardized tests based on Common Core are causing a lot of anxiety for students, parents and teachers.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

The school board is asking the state to «reexamine» the APPR plan and create a system «based on multiple forms of assessment» as opposed to «extensive standardized testing,» according to the resolution.

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 standardized test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

If Davidson is right, 21st - century society will move away from categorizing people based on standardized tests, which are crude measures of intelligence at best.

How well someone scores on a standardized test is based on a combination of intelligence, preparation, motivation, concentration, test - day jitters, and lots of other variables.

Future federal clinical trials of cognitive treatments for schizophrenia will use the tests developed by the MATRICS committee, based upon the above seven domains, for a more standardized measure of efficacy.

The EuroClonality Group is a consortium of 47 European institutions that collaborated on the BIOMED - 2 concerted action to standardize PCR - based molecular methods for clonality testing.

At base line and every two months thereafter, her height was measured with the same stadiometer and her body composition was measured by dual - energy x-ray absorptiometry (QDR 1000W, Hologic, Waltham, Mass.) to determine the bone mineral mass and the amounts of fat and lean soft tissue.11 Spontaneous energy intake was measured with the use of a standardized test meal (containing 1670 kcal of energy) given at noon, after the patient had been fasting since breakfast.

Incredibly, the data also indicated that ClariMem ® effectively reversed the equivalent of 9 years of brain aging, based on performance on a standardized cognitive test.

And since the culprits can be hard to detect based simply on the amount of carbs in a food, scientists came up with a standardized test.

Urban students in grades seven and eight who were engaged in the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum demonstrated higher standardized test scores than students engaged in traditional instruction in a sample of 5,000 students.

Importantly, in 1998, the Ohio Board of Regents began tracking the educational progress of entering students at its 45 public colleges, based on information from applications, college transcripts, and standardized tests.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

This strategy should raise their standardized test scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement test scores are based on the vocabulary of the standards.»

Whether individually or through facilitated professional development, teachers spend a lot of time unpacking the standardized tests and the targeted standards and learning on which they're based.

Standardized Test Outcomes for Students Engaged in Inquiry - Based Science Curricula in the Context of Urban Reform.

Meanwhile, a broader backlash against reform, fueled by concerns about over-reliance on standardized tests, the accuracy of new evaluations, and the efficacy of performance - based incentives, has led some states to reverse course.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

To the extent the program involves student achievement, it bases awards on «student learning objectives» as «created by individual teachers, with the approval of site - based administrators»; these objectives «will be measured by a combination of existing assessment instruments, and teacher designed tools,» as well as by state standardized tests.

Even so, 81 percent of BASIS DC students were proficient in reading and 77 percent were proficient in math on the D.C. standardized test results released in July 2013, less than a year after the school opened.

Mostly based on «value added,» a statistical measure of the contribution the teachers make to student achievement on standardized tests.

Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectivenesOf course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectivenesof moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectivenesof compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectivenesof teachers» effectiveness.

Authors of a RAND report, «Using Web - Based Testing for Large - Scale Assessments,» identify several key advantages of having students take standardized tests via the Web.

To date, however, the use of computer - based standardized tests is limited in K - 12 schools.

With few exceptions, however, the assessments states have chosen to implement because of NCLB are either nationally standardized achievement tests or state - developed standards - based tests — both of which are flawed.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) are creating computer - adaptive exams that will offer customized questions based on student responses, which will measure what students do and do not know more efficiently and accurately than standardized tests have in the past.

Many educators were proud of this, but it had some of the same problems as the first year, primarily an inability to be «transparent» to the standardized test — based accountability system in use by the school district.

Standardized test outcomes for students engaged in inquiry - based science curricula in the context of urban reform.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.