Sentences with phrase «by standardized test»

A high school graduate's GPA is one of the most important factors affecting their college admission options, followed closely at many schools by their standardized test scores.

Their application can be submitted at any time if they have advanced intermediate knowledge of French demonstrated by a standardized test.

I am not sure if Elsa is really a good student if one is measuring by standardized test scores and / or performance on classroom exams, but she could be one of those students who becomes a success in life — like some corporate founders and wealthy people who simply followed their dreams and desires.

Another reason for keeping pay for performance arrangements out of education is that they have high potential for encouraging people to «game the system» as evidenced by standardized test cheating scandals that are a direct result of pay for performance educational policies.

None of those qualities is picked up by a standardized test.

Has learning really stopped over the summer, or does it take on a different form not measurable by a standardized test?

Academic achievement, as measured by standardized test scores, is not the only education outcome for which disparities between high - income and low - income students have been growing.

He writes: «In this dystopian story, teachers are evaluated by standardized test scores and branded with color - coded levels of effectiveness, students are abstracted into inhuman measures of data, and educational value is assessed by how well forecasted «growth» levels are met.

To learn the answer, we interviewed leading educational researchers around the world, assessed the landscape of academic research and educational - achievement data, and built an economic model that allowed us to examine the relationships among educational achievement (represented by standardized test scores), the earnings potential of workers, and GDP.

Lessons that will improve the quality of life, but will never be measured by a standardized test.

But they need to be based on several central tenets, including that half the grade be based on increased and structured classroom observations and the other half based on student achievement, measured by both standardized test scores and other tools.

What has become known as the «opt out» movement has been growing in various states for a few years, sparked by standardized test - based school reform that began under the administration of the younger Bush and gained steam under President Obama.

That is because poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the greatest predictors of academic success as measured by standardized test scores.

Everyone knows that «student growth» can be measured in a variety of ways but that «student achievement growth» is measured by standardized test scores.

Performance, as defined by standardized test score gains, is something that can now be easily and accurately measured.

A PAIR teacher describes how all her students were able to find success in the PAIR project, regardless of how they were usually categorized by standardized test scores:

GraduateNYC found that only 47 % of students in New York public schools were «college ready» in 2014, measured by standardized test performance (e.g., 20 or above on the ACT English test, 21 or above on the ACT Math test).

During the final year, student achievement was measured by standardized test scores and writing prompts.

Further, if schools are identified as failing primarily by their standardized test scores, the percentage of misidentified schools will be unacceptably large.»

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

Jeb Bush's claim is that the education reform package that he pushed through in Florida has dramatically improved the quality of education in his state, as measured by standardized test scores.

More than half of all U.S. public school teachers, including those who teach in the arts, physical education, and early elementary grades, are not covered by a standardized test.

In fact, 85 percent of a principal's rating is based on the academic performance of students, which is judged in large part by standardized test results.

Value - added models try to separate the contribution of individual teachers or schools to students» learning growth measured by standardized test scores.

At present and for the past many years, the success of the building principal has been judged by the standardized test scores of the school.

All Saints Central offers excellent academics which are reflected by standardized test scores and college scholarship awards.

Distilling critics» fears to the common denominator, one finds an overarching concern that the current discussion about IPS reform will center on shifting control of money and power without genuine awareness of what techniques could best shape IPS students into life - long learners capable of achieving success on a broader plane than that defined by standardized test scores.

And that can't be measured by a standardized test.

Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement about using students» academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.

As measured by standardized test scores (mainly the SAT and the ACT), students choosing to major in education tend to be drawn from the lower end of the ability distribution.

This study found no differences in content acquisition (as measured by a standardized test) of 167 gifted 10th graders in American Studies classes who received either a problem - based learning approach or traditional instruction.

[1] Understanding of the lecture, measured by a standardized test, was substantially worse for those who had used laptops.

While Prof. Greene positions himself as dedicated to scholarly rigor, he falls into his own logical trap when challenging our claims about states without teacher unions having the lowest achievement rate according to the measures favored by the standardized test proponents.

Success in education is often measured by a standardized test, but there arent any tests designed to measure how students feel about themselves after being actively involved in a program like this.

This may reflect a parental preference for their children to enjoy school, or it might reflect parental preferences for teachers who emphasize academic facets that increase student satisfaction but are not captured by standardized test scores, such as critical thinking or curiosity.

His sleep quality improved by 87 percent, measured by a standardized test, and although the sleep quality had dropped at a 12 - week follow - up, it remained in the «good quality of sleep» range, according to the study.

Few policies more closely affect everyday people — just ask any parent frustrated by standardized test prep.

Many school districts, feeling the intense pressure created by standardized testing, continue to shortchange students when it comes to giving them adequate time to eat.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

One study showed increased activity in the visual cortexes of participants (1) while other studies found increased creativity in university professors and students (measured by standardized tests for creativity).

It's almost all cognitive knowing, as evidenced by standardized testing.

Social And Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves Them, But Still Can't Define Them (NPR) Marty West discusses noncognitive traits and habits and how we are trying to explain and measure student success educationally and in labor markets with skills not measured by standardized tests.

A new emphasis on something that educators have known for decades: Skills not measured by standardized testing are important to children's development.

«A lot of the current interest among researchers in the policymaking community, and among practitioners, is centered on an attempt to be more specific about what it is that is not directly captured by standardized tests yet contributes to students» success.

The achievement gap between middle - school students and K — 8 students is put in stark relief in Figure 1, which displays our estimates of the impact of attending a middle school on student achievement as measured by standardized tests in math and English Language Arts.

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

He describes an accountability movement driven by standardized tests.

His second book, How Children Succeed, looked at the mindsets and skills children need to excel in school and life that are not directly captured by standardized tests, anticipating and also helping to drive the current enthusiasm for teaching so - called noncognitive skills.

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»