Sentences with phrase «data from standardized tests»

Connecticut's superintendents should follow the lead of their New York colleagues and demand that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly repeal the law they developed mandating that student achievement data from standardized tests be used as part of the educator evaluation process.

The school looks at student growth data from standardized tests and considers what teachers believe will work best for a specific group of students.

The most controversial of them include what is known as value - added models1 that use data from standardized tests of students as part of the overall measure of the effect that a teacher has on student achievement.

They support the use of the data from standardized testing to improve curriculum in the future.

Not exact matches

To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

The authors analyzed data from 1,752 participants (average age 68) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) who underwent an in - home polysomnography (sleep) study, completed standardized sleep questions, and a battery of tests to measure their cognition.

If your data is coming from a large adaptive standardized test, start by checking the norms.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

Our study is based on student - level data from Chile's national standardized test, Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (Educational Quality Measurement System — SIMCE), which assesses students in grades 4, 8, and 10 in language, mathematics, history and geography, and natural sciences.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

These data are from a nationally representative sample of roughly 6,000 students from the cohort of students who were in 10th grade in 2002, and include information from student surveys, teacher surveys, standardized tests, and administrative data from schools.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

From standardized testing to common formative assessments, we have an expansive amount of data on student ability.

If getting the data using frequent standardized tests occupies up to one - third of all available time to teach, that will alone prevent students from making the marks they should.

«It's a mistake to draw firm conclusions from a single data point, especially when students, parents and educators want the conversation... to go far beyond labeling them with a score based on unproven and disruptive standardized tests,» she said.

Last week, classroom teachers voted overwhelmingly to approve a new system of evaluations, which include data from California Standardized Tests.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

When we consider what progressing towards «sufficient gains» looks like for students at DC Bilingual, nothing demonstrates their success better than the recent data from Washington, D.C.'s standardized tests.

VAMs v. Student Growth Models: The main similarities between VAMs and student growth models are that they all use students» large - scale standardized test score data from current and prior years to calculate students» growth in achievement over time.

These teachers collect data from a variety of sources — including peers and supervisors, as well as standardized test scores.

This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students from consequences for student test scores on a standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.

Speakers opposed to the state's new public education policies whipped an audience of hundreds into a furor at Comsewogue High School on March 29, 2014 as Opt - Out supporters, preaching from the stage in the auditorium, vowed to «starve the beast» — calling on parents to have their children skip the rigorous standardized tests and deprive the school system of the data upon which the system depends.

Critics point out that value - added data are only as good as the standardized tests — and test quality varies greatly from state to state.

SEDA is an archive of education data, including 300 million standardized test scores, from every public school in the United States.

More standardized testing of students, more data collection from teachers, more purchasing of educational reform materials and we can expect more punitive actions towards teachers and schools.

Results from the data analyses showed no statistically significant correlation between the overall holistic scores assigned by the AES tool and the overall holistic scores assigned by faculty human raters or human raters who scored another standardized writing test.

Proponents of standardized testing say that it is the best means of comparing data from a diverse population, allowing educators to digest large amounts of information quickly.

Data from LA Unified's 2011 - 12 state standardized test scores shows the percentage of girls ranked proficient or advanced in science drops from 54 percent in the eighth grade to roughly 27 percent a year later.

Public school students in Texas, for example, are required to take standardized tests, allowing test data from Amarillo to be compared to scores in Dallas.

Both the statewide accountability system and Indiana's teacher evaluation law draw on data collected from standardized tests.

According to data from the 2013 - 2014 school year, SFUSD's black students are among the lowest performers on standardized tests and have one of the highest dropout rates.

Now that two years of data from California's new standardized test are available, we are in a better position to evaluate early implementation of both the Common Core State Standards and the new Local Control Funding Formula, particularly its impact on economically disadvantaged students and English Learners.

The current list is based on standardized testing data from the era of No Child Left Behind, a federal law that graded schools heavily on math and reading scores.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Judicious Use of Test Scores: Used judiciously, data from relatively infrequent, low - stakes standardized tests has some value as a snapshot of student abilities that can diagnose areas of strength and areas that need improvement.

Connecticut received a waiver from the Federal Department of Education requirement that standardized testing data be used in evaluations during the 2015 - 16 school year.

- Data from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment shoes that, in a single year, students with the weakest 5 % of teachers made a half - year's worth of reading gains on standardized tests, while those with the top 5 % of teachers gained a year and a half.

Common Core Standards were written, without input from educators at the K - 12 or college level, by employees of testing companies and companies that analyze standardized test data.

Using longitudinal administrative data from three major school districts with significant numbers of recent TFA placements, we generate TFA effect estimates based on two series of Georgia's standardized tests — the end - of - grade Criterion - Referenced Competency Tests (CRCTs) and end - of - course tests (EOtests — the end - of - grade Criterion - Referenced Competency Tests (CRCTs) and end - of - course tests (EOTests (CRCTs) and end - of - course tests (EOtests (EOCTs).

Researchers compared state standardized reading test scores for each of two groups, using data from the year prior to the program compared with scores at the end of the program year.