Sentences with phrase «beyond test scores at»

Beyond Measure Challenges Americans to look beyond test scores at the students themselves.

Not exact matches

«Assessing the potential of students to be successful in STEM fields goes beyond just looking at tests scores and grades, though these are important,» Malcom said.

Research scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say that at least 40 percent of children with a hearing loss have the capacity for higher language levels — beyond what test scores indicate.

But then researchers looking at student traits above and beyond IQ and test - scores birthed a revolution in «non-cognitive» factors in education.

But there are at least two reasons we might want to look beyond test scores and other school - based outcome measures.

Such volatility can wreak havoc when rewards and punishments are doled out on the basis of changes in test scores; school personnel are at risk of being punished or rewarded for results that are beyond their control.

This score was the proportion of students in each school achieving at or beyond the proficient level on the states «tests.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

Based on more than 20 years of research by the University of Chicago, the 5Essentials survey looks at schools beyond test scores to provide meaningful information on school culture and climate.

This is a completely separate concern from the fact that, at best, measured «teacher effects» may only explain from 1 % to 15 or 20 % of the variance in student test scores, a figure dwarfed by the variance explained by factors beyond the control of teachers.

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, College Prep network has been striving all year to improve test scores at Sylvanie Williams Elementary beyond its current «D' rating, which if unsuccessful would likely mean College Prep would no longer operate that school.

Jack Schneider is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, Mass., the director of research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment and the author of the soon - to - be-published «Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality.»

SGO in one paragraph: The «student growth objective» is a second measure that will look at student achievement beyond state test scores.

Assistant Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock and her team at Carrollton - Farmers Branch ISD (CFBISD) fiercely focus on high achievement for all students, and this commitment to excellence goes far beyond test scores.

Making the assessments multidimensional (not relying exclusively on test scores), focusing on potential and not just performance, and looking at subjects beyond just reading and math could all prove beneficial.

«There's a whole lot more that goes into educating children beyond a test score,» said Folker, who teaches at Mayberry Elementary School in Echo Park.

At the school level, value - added means essentially the same thing — the measurement of how well a school purportedly grew its students from one year to the next, when students» growth in test scores over time are aggregated beyond the classroom and to the school - wide level.

In addition to a set of «substantially weighted» academic indicators, states are to add to them «at least one additional indicator of school quality or student success beyond test scores.»