Sentences with phrase «combination of test scores»
The state also released the results of principal evaluations, which were also based on a combination of test scores and observations by administrators.
https://www.nytimes.com/
The Eligibility Index Table shows the combination of test scores and grade point averages required to meet minimum eligibility requirements.
Not exact matches
Since 2008, Democrats have administered randomized - control experiments to test the impact of GOTV contact on voters with different score combinations, with the goal of quantifying where those contacts are most likely to produce a net vote.
Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.
How well someone scores on a standardized test is based on a combination of intelligence, preparation, motivation, concentration, test - day jitters, and lots of other variables.
«The results indicate this combination of programs may potentially be one way to narrow the black - white test score gap.»
Using methodology developed with Ed School Lecturer Terrence Tivnan, he compared the «academic rating» that admissions officers assign to applicants (a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, etc.) with their actual academic performance once they enrolled at Middlebury.
Evaluations should not be based exclusively on test scores but should — as a new agreement in New York State affirms — use a combination of evaluation methods that include test scores and other observational methods.
Schools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and subjects.
It grades K - 8 schools based on a combination of static test scores, value - added test scores, and the results of a school climate survey, and their high school grades also factor in rates of high school completion and college matriculation.
When a high - VA teacher leaves a given subject - grade - school combination, test scores of subsequent students in that subject, grade, and school fall.
Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.
Even better, they were hoping that the combination of classroom observations, student surveys, and previous test score gains would be a much better predictor of future test score gains (or of future classroom observations) than any one of those measures alone.
Middle School Honors programs look at some combination of grades, portfolios, state test scores, and sometimes require their own exam.
The test score indicator works this way: Either two reds, in math and English scores, or a combination of one test in red and one in orange count for potential assistance.
Our value is based largely on test scores and our overall scores are calculated using a combination of a rubric and an «Individual Value Added» formula....
In our analyses of Florida data, 37 percent of the variation in students» middle school course tracks can be explained by a combination of their prior test scores, race / ethnicity, and family income.
Rocketship calls this «blended learning» — a combination of in - person and computerized instruction — and claims it can cut costs while raising low - income students» test scores.
A combination of motivation, organization, time management, and concentration will help students stay on track and be able to achieve successful test scores.
The new evaluations are based on a combination of teacher practice and student achievement, which includes the controversial use of standardized test scores.
The journalist of the Santa Fe New Mexican, though, provided the most detailed information about Judge Thomson's Order, writing, for example, that the «ruling by state District Judge David Thomson focused primarily on the complicated combination of student test scores used to judge teachers.
As a nation we now have a toxic combination of a failed federal policy — No Child Left Behind — which made testing the be-all and end - all of schooling, and Bill Gates» misguided belief that teacher quality can be determined by student test scores.
Among them: Teachers must be evaluated with a combination of student test scores and an appraisal from a supervisor.
Rocketship proposes that its model — dubbed «blended learning» for its combination of in - person and computerized instruction — can cut costs while raising low - income students» test scores (Rocketship Education 2011).
An added gem is that Common Core advocates excitedly announced that the new tests will be harder to pass, giving even open - minded teachers reason to fear that the combination of new tests, stricter scoring, and new high - stakes evaluations was designed to put them in the crosshairs.
However, for the most selective admissions methods may include auditions, on - site exams, standardized test scores, interviews, essays, or place of residence (zoning) and, in some cases, a combination of these methods (New York City High School Directory, 5).
August 2008: GTI scores 4 stars in a Four Seasons test We said: «You'd have a hard time matching the GTI's combination of useful packaging, cheerful personality, and outright speed at any price — and especially for less than $ 27,000.»
This combination helps the Yoga score 2,383 in the Geekbench 3 multi-core speed test, placing it just behind some of the most expensive tablets available.
Some schools, particularly public schools, admit students based on a specific selection index, which is based on a combination of GPA, test scores, and / or class rank.
The test involves streaming an HD movie in the YouTube app on full brightness, so the combination of pixel pushing and data drawing make this a healthy score.
This is a powerful combination of parts, and it kicked things off by returning a combined score of 83.4 GOPS in SiSoft Sandra's Processor Arithmetic test.
Battery Score is a combination of the runtime and the work completed during the battery test.
The combination of performance scores for stills and video made the iPhone X the «highest - rated smartphone camera» the site has tested.
The combination was good enough for first place among a collection of convertible and clamshell peers in our PCMark 8 office productivity test, with a stellar score of 3,603 (anything above 2,500 is fine for Microsoft Office and Google Docs).