Sentences with phrase «between standardized tests results»

Tests are but one measure of student learning, and evidence demonstrates an inconsistent relationship between standardized tests results and later life outcomes — calling into question the practice of devoting additional time to a single state standardized test.

Not exact matches

The release of the latest round of standardized test results on Wednesday re-opened an ongoing political battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state's teachers unions.

The biggest difference between last year's contentious budget cycle and now is that teacher evaluations have been uncoupled from the standardized test results.

And it reverses Cuomo's plan to link teacher evaluations more closely to standardized testing, instead putting off any connections between performance reviews and test results until at least 2020.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

The authors wrote that, overall, the results of 46 articles published between 1985 and October 2008 found that «there is substantial evidence that physical activity can help improve academic achievement, including grades and standardized test scores.

But A.C.T. officials downplayed the signficance of the tiny rise — a tenth of a point on a scale of 36 — and standardized - test critics voiced alarm at test results showing a slight increase in the «gender gap» between male and female students.

In another finding, expected by some to fuel the controversy that surrounds the issue of standardized testing, the test results showed that non-military white youths scored almost twice as high as black civilian youths, with Hispanic civilians scoring in between the levels of the other two groups.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

As any trained researcher would recognize, the relationship between a lack of collective bargaining and lower standardized test results is not necessarily causal.

And it reverses Cuomo's plan to link teacher evaluations more closely to standardized testing, instead putting off any connections between performance reviews and test results until at least 2020.

This correspondence with President Obama and Secretary Duncan captures the divide that has emerged between the Obama administration and various self - designated reformers on the one hand, and educators and researchers wary of the unintended results of policies linking high - stakes consequences to students» scores on standardized tests.

Results from the data analyses showed no statistically significant correlation between the overall holistic scores assigned by the AES tool and the overall holistic scores assigned by faculty human raters or human raters who scored another standardized writing test.

Hirsch found a high correlation between standardized reading test results and the likelihood of economic success, adaptability to retraining, civic integration and even the probability of not being incarcerated.

By examining the average achievement test results (45 % of the rating), the percentage of test scores that are below the acceptable provincial standards (45 % of the rating), and the difference between test scores based on gender (10 % of the rating), the Fraser Institute Report Cards develops a standardized «overall rating out of 10».

Between 2011 - 13, Dr. Goggs co-chaired an effort to standardize viscoelastic testing in veterinary medicine, resulting in assay guidelines published in JVECC in 2014.