Sentences with phrase «causes higher test scores»

If the states that had not done annual testing improve their test scores more than the states that did annual testing, the findings suggest annual testing causes higher test scores.

But you don't emphasize an important point: Whatever benefits students experienced in kindergarten that resulted in higher test scores, they did not cause higher test scores in later grades — even though they produced better later - life outcomes.

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But the team doesn't know what aspect of fracking caused the low birth weights, which put babies at higher risk for infant mortality, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, lower test scores, and lower lifetime earnings.

Indeed, members of the public who score the highest on a climate - science literacy test are the most politically polarized on whether human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

The standards are still very much alive; cut scores are dramatically higher than ever; school - level comparability is largely a lost cause; and the quality of what matters the most — the tests and the classroom instruction — remains mostly unknown at present.

He wrote that «undue emphasis upon average test results, upon school - to - school and teacher - to - teacher comparisons... may cause the teacher... to neglect the interests of the pupils, and to be concerned instead with subject matter objectives and with higher average scores for their own sake.

The idea of financial incentives is based on logic that economists find eminently sensible — workers work harder when money is at stake, so giving teachers higher pay for higher test scores should cause test scores to go up.

The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

In other words, although high stakes may cause test scores to rise on a particular assessment, those scores may not reflect true gains in student learning.

2) Decades of research into the causes of the gap in test scores between low - income and high - income students in the United States has consistently found a limited contribution from school - based factors.