Sentences with phrase «dependent on test scores»

In most cases, that would still leave 70 % of a school's rating dependent on test scores.

The large increase in students opting out coincided with a push by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, to make teacher ratings more dependent on test scores, a move that was unpopular with teachers» unions and many parents.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

Not exact matches

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end test scores, but «next - day or next - week outcomes: measurable effects on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

If teacher evaluations are going to be dependent, at least in part, on standardized test scores, then certainly superintendent evaluation should be dependent, at least in part, on how well they do handling standardized per unit expenditures.

While recent attempts by the teacher unions to «correct» the flaws in the Malloy administration's teacher evaluation system are laudable, the fact is that Malloy's system can not be fixed because it is inherently dependent on standardized test scores that fail to evaluate teachers on factors that are within their control.

Using modest criteria that were overly dependent on TAAS scores — enrollment of 5,000 or more students; high poverty levels; and 50 percent of the high - poverty schools in the district categorized as Recognized or Exemplary on the basis of their state test scores — they studied data from all Texas districts.