Sentences with phrase «collecting student test score»

Private school representatives complained collecting student test scores, graduation rates, absenteeism and other data would be burdensome.

Not exact matches

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

In addition to test scores, PISA collects data on student learning styles.

(In our research, we ourselves assigned students randomly to test and control groups, and we collected baseline test scores to verify the lotteries» success.)

«Nearly all states are building high - tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools,» reported the New York Times in a front - page story last May, confirming the scope of the trend.

The data needed to best answer these questions are the student - level test - score and demographic information collected by the New York State Department of Education.

«I began by collecting baseline data about my students, related to attention, memory, physical stamina, and test scores,» added Tennant.

Before conducting the lotteries, our evaluation team collected data on student test scores and family background characteristics.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

Standardized test scores and self - reports from teachers and students were collected over three years from a sample of 520 children in grades 3 - 5.

To analyze the program's impact on public schools, we collected school - level test scores on the 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 administrations of the FCAT and the Stanford - 9, a national norm - referenced test that is given to all Florida public school students around the same time as the FCAT.

Additionally, student achievement tests will be administered and / or existing test scores will be collected, and classroom observations will be conducted.

Each student will be followed for two years by collecting Higher Achievement application information and school records (test scores, grades, and attendance) and by surveying parents.

In addition to the survey data collected, in - depth interviews were conducted with 43 teachers who taught in the promotion-gate grades (3rd, 6th, and 8th, where students faced their test - score Rubicons) at five K - 8 schools in the system.

Using information from a national sample of public and private school students collected in 2003 as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), ETS compared the test scores of public school students with those of students in all private schools, taken together.

The information to be collected about individual students may include name, address, grades, test scores, detailed disciplinary and health records, race, ethnicity, economic status, disabilities & other highly sensitive personal and family details.

Individual student scores on the California Standards Test for Mathematics were also collected.

Billions spent on collecting standardized test scores have successfully given us a sense of how students perform across school districts and states (the answer: not very well), but they do little to tell us meaningfully about how individual students are doing.

Evers said the new accountability system most likely will focus on data the state already has the ability to collect, such as proficiency and growth over time on a new state test being developed, advanced placement enrollment, graduation rates, college entrance exam scores and industry certification for students who don't go on to college.

Since 1998, the federal government has attempted to increase the accountability for preparation programs by requiring states to collect and report information about the programs, including completion rates, average scores on state and national teaching tests, and the number of student teaching hours required.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

You know the drill: student «fill - in - the - bubble» sheets are completed, collected, sorted, shipped out to the testing company, scanned, scored, compiled, and analyzed.

The «layered model,» as it is called by researchers, collects between three and five years of test - score data for each student in as many subjects as possible, including reading, math, science and social studies, in order to make predictions about how a student will score on a given test.

Standardized test scores and self - reports from teachers and students were collected over three years from a sample of 520 children in grades 3 - 5.