Sentences with phrase «big test score»

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Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

The survey, published today (Dec. 2) by Kaplan Test Prep, found that 48 % of some 288 responding admissions staffers said that a weak score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the biggest application killer.

The speedy striker has scored goals with regularity at both Crewe and Bristol City, netting 81 goals in 195 appearances, but a step up to the Premier League will be a big test for the Ashton Gate striker and one that Martinez will hope that he passes with flying colours.

Passed a big test against Manchester City and faces another one against the free - scoring Italians.

There is no doubt that it will also be a big test of Arsenal's title credentials as well, as defeat can not be considered especially after our last game at the Emirates, but how satisfying would it be to get a repeat of last season's score?

And he yet again was rewarded with another goal to open the scoring, but he admits that the Qualifiers haven't really been a big test for their credentials ahead of the Euro Finals in Paris next summer.

There's no bigger test of their defence right now than a game against Chelsea, who are scoring goals for fun, especially at the Bridge.

Morata has a reputation for being a big game player who scores vital goals, this summer will ultimately test that resolve after being heavily linked with a big money move to England this summer from Juventus in Serie A.

But this should be a high scoring game again between the two of them and a really big test of Manchester City's character.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

Supporters, including many business leaders, consider that a big improvement from a previous law that, until 2010, barred districts from considering test scores as part of evaluations.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

«One day when Josiah scored poorly on a test, the teacher made him hold up his test sheet in front of the entire class, with a big «F» on it, until dismissal,» Jackson said.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

«If a student takes a test, gets a great score, you don't want him to get a big head and back off — you want him to keep working and do better,» he says.

I am extremely intelligent per my test scores (genius - level), what everyone says about me, and my academic success, etc. and ma very intellectual, so that gives me a big advantage with highly intelligent, intellectual women — the kind I want anyways.

I only mention it to suggest ways in which over-relying on test scores and declaring with confidence that we know what works and what doesn't can lead to big policy mistakes.

As we've seen in New York, which is a few years ahead of the curve when it comes to making its tests much harder, a higher cut score will make achievement gaps look much bigger, and the achievement of most high - poverty schools look much worse.

... Improving nutrition might bring a bigger test - score gain....

Perhaps the big economic gains made by blacks in the 1990s didn't show up in improved test scores until the 2000s.

One of the big problems is that they lean so heavily on student scores from reading and math tests.

What to make of the white - black SAT test - score gap, for instance, which is bigger than ever?

When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability tests.

Another big complaint is the pressure to get test scores up.

But, lo and behold, test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress for students in Washington, D.C. have risen more than those of students from any other participating big city.

New York's latest round of state test results were released last week and the biggest news is the scores posted by Success Academy, the network of twenty - two charter schools throughout New York City run by Eva Moskowitz.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

The big question going forward, it seems to me, is whether any of our reform efforts are like to lead to another big bump in test scores anytime soon.

New York's latest round of state test results were released last week and the biggest news is the scores posted by Success Academy.

Rather than focusing on grades and test scores, students need opportunities to take on big issues, work with diverse teams, and produce innovations that will make their communities proud.

Classrooms with relatively big gains on this year's test and relatively small gains on next year's test will score high on this indicator.

One of the biggest complaints about NCLB was the test - and - punish nature of the law — the high - stakes consequences attached to student standardized test scores.

The big jump in test takers drew in many with weaker skill sets, driving down test scores significantly in those six new states.

The biggest correlation in education is between poverty and test scores.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

Some researchers speculate that those programs didn't offer big enough rewards and that they focused too narrowly on test scores rather than the instructional practices teachers can control more directly.

My biggest critique is that the state's grading system still relies too heavily on absolute test scores (rather than growth).

New York teacher Kevin Glynn was once a big fan of the Common Core, but he says the standardized testing that's come along with it is reducing students to test scores and narrowing what gets taught in schools.

A big change seen in about half the states is a focus on growth — how fast test scores are moving and in which direction, not just how many kids have passed a specific score on the tests.

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.

«While England's brightest pupils score around average in international tests — and better in science — this analysis shows that there are some very big socio - economic gaps in attainment between the brightest pupils from poor and better - off homes.

Because writing is a big part of Ohio's standardized tests, she hoped that the experience would also enhance their scores on those exams.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

Zhao urged teacher educators to think bigger than scores on standardized tests — to prepare teachers who do more than train their students on employable skills, but who embrace diversity, curiosity, passion, and creativity.

The biggest goal in the new accountability plan is to broaden how school success is measured, reaching beyond test scores and graduation rates.

What Big Drop in Test Scores Really Means http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/07/what-big-drop-in-new-standardized-test-scores-really-means/