Sentences with phrase «different statewide tests»

Others worry that with 50 different statewide tests, the federal government will lack a meaningful tool with which to compare test scores across state lines.

The CEA and AFT - CT proposal seeks to phase out the Common Core SBAC testing scheme and replace it with a different statewide testing system that would still result in assigning every child a series of «scores» and then rank order children, schools and school districts based on those scores.

Not exact matches

and Maryland have alternate registration tests, and Wyoming permits the vote test to be satisfied by any of three different statewide offices.

Statewide, just 31 percent of students passed — a steep decline from the previous year, when substantially different tests were given.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

Indiana isn't moving away from A-F letter grades for schools, but the metrics underlying the statewide accountability system will look a lot different moving forward — and it could mean more state tests.