Sentences with phrase «because of test scores»

«Is it possible that we succeeded not because of test scores but because our society encourages something more important than test scores: to create, innovate, imagine, and think differently?»

No longer will schools be threatened with takeover by the state strictly because of test scores.

Not exact matches

'' [Besides] saving time, there's no real incentive to cheat on these tests because typically it's just to get a certification of «hours» for internal compliance training, so your score doesn't matter, and if you don't pass, you can take it again.

If you want to test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balances

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

If it truly was (in part) because of a lack of intelligence then the Wonderlic score (as much as I personally don't trust intelligence tests) should have mellowed out some people's expectations.

The bad news is that Kane is now well and truly over his early season struggles in front of goal and has scored four times in his last two Premier League games and got their Europa League opener last night, Hopefully Laurent Koscielny will pass his fitness test because we will need to be at our defensive best on Sunday to cope with the danger of Kane.

Earlier, SMU had denied Bliss's star recruit, Larry Johnson, now the UNLV star, admission because of questions about his SAT test scores.

The Tangerines have endeared themselves to everyone and on Tuesday will provide Sunderland with one of their most testing home encounters in the whole of 2010 simply because they aren't like other sides, they've never heard of the word fear at inside a stadium which has been nothing short of a fortress for the hosts, and Holloway's men will go their with an attacking intent and a purpose to score goals, plenty of them as well.

I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

Alex Ashbrook, director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, called in - classroom breakfast a possible «magic bullet of school reform» because some studies link a good breakfast to increased test scores and fewer visits to the school nurse.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

The test scores that the Success network touts, Mantell said, «would not be valid» because the network does not educate its fair share of English language learners, students with disabilities and students with behavior problems.

For all their paranoia and guilty consciences, lawmakers did manage to agree on a bill addressing the 178 public schools classified as «failing» because of their persistently bottom - of - the - barrel test scores.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

With Lafayette High School under orders from Albany to close because of poor test scores, the school is proposing a re-structuring of itself.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

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While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70 percent of incoming kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.

She said she wanted to see teacher evaluations permanently unlinked from test scores, because she was skeptical of the methodology used to calculate a teacher's impact on a student's scores.

This lack of documentation was a problem because death - row inmates have a clear incentive to score poorly on IQ tests.

We used the composite score (mean [± SD], 100 ± 16) to represent IQ, because it is similar to the IQ score of other intelligence tests.18, 19 A different examiner administered an abbreviated Stanford — Binet Scale at each age.

Indeed, because the tests have such strong systematics, the use of GRE and PGRE scores as a measure of potential success has well - documented and powerful effects on the demographics of the resulting graduate cohorts.

Foods that contain low quantities of carbs can still score highly because large amounts are required for the test.

He was really nervous that he would score poorly on this test but it's not because he is out of shape or overweight.

I think we're focusing quite heavily in this study on exam results because previous studies have found the link between test scores or exam results and the gross domestic product of an economy or the vitality of a country's society.

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

If parents think that certain teachers, schools, and programs are good because there is a waiting list demanding them, we should be very cautious about declaring that they are mistaken based on an examination of test scores.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

Because test scores are not necessarily the best measure of learning or of likely economic success, we examine instead the relationships between SFR - induced spending increases and several long - term outcomes: educational attainment, high school completion, adult wages, adult family income, and the incidence of adult poverty.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

Because students with adult arrest records can be tracked all the way back to kindergarten in some cases, I use all of the potential predictors of criminal behavior — test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics — to calculate an index of crime risk.

A teacher tells you he «boosted» his students» high - stakes tests» scores because his kids needed to show a certain level of improvement or he would face sanctions.

«Most [schools] shuttered because of enrollment projections that fell short, changes in leadership and lagging test scores,» the article noted.

One last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly report a wide array of data related to test scores, poverty rates, teacher characteristics, and much, much more.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: South Dakota continues to score poorly in this category, partly because it is one of only six states that do not test teachers at all before they earn their licenses.

Because the state has not yet identified students for retention, the test scores of students the first time they are in the 3rd grade are not affected by any change in the student cohort resulting from the retention policy.

The reporters provide the reader with a host of mostly misleading state - provided test - score data, because the State of New York mis - constructed the proficiency scales on its statewide tests, thereby rendering interpretation of scores over time virtually impossible.

Test - retest reliability over short periods of time is the preeminent psychometric question for report card items because the data are not useful if scores that teachers generate for individual students on individual items are unstable during a period of time in which it is unlikely that the student has changed.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

Putting a finger on exactly which policy changes produced the test - score improvements is remarkably difficult, because the state adopted a wide array of policies that may have had a beneficial effect.

So far, the Connecticut Mastery Test has been of limited use to Elm City because scores arrive after the school year is in full swing.

Third, just the other day, a USA Today column called for shuttering a Kansas City charter school whose students recently won the National Society of Black Engineers Robotics Competition because its test scores are only average.

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

The report from the Learning First Alliance, a permanent partnership of a dozen education groups, says the districts were selected in part because they showed three or more years of improvement in student test scores that crossed subjects, grade levels, and racial and ethnic groups.

«Some schools struggle to bring people together because of limited time and a focus more often on raising test scores than building relationships with parents and families,» she says.