Sentences with phrase «exams for»

At the high school level, the PARCC exams took away from key instruction time, school administrators said, as tests piled up in the spring, including Advanced Placement exams for honors - level students and a college entrance exam in many districts.

You should consider using state exams or exams for which we have set national benchmarks, when possible.

K'Lee passed her comprehensive exams for her Ed.D. degree on March 1, 2014, and is now in the ABD (All But Dissertation) phase of her program through Northcentral University.

As children prepare for the second year of entrance exams for grammar schools, a NI children's commissioner survey has revealed the views of pupils.

Coursework and exams for certified teachers must include a working skill set of how to successfully approach this inevitable student / teacher dynamic in the classroom.

NES designs and administers «custom - made» exams for 10 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Other states, such as Maine and Kentucky, use college - entrance exams for accountability purposes as well.

Although one can't consider the results gains because the tests and testing rules changed, the figures have encouraged many: In the English exams for grades 3 - 8, the traditional public schools passage rate «rose» by 7.6 percentage points, and for charter schools, the figure was up 13.7 percentage points.

State Sen. Paul Farrow has asked state schools Superintendent Tony Evers not to use student test scores from the Smarter Balanced exams for school ratings, sanctions or teacher evaluations.

Just 3 % of England's GCSE papers will be awarded the new ultra-high grade when new - style GCSE exams for English and maths are first sat in 2017.

Why are our 9 year olds subjected to state exams that last as long or are longer than entrance and certifying exams for adult professionals who make life and death decisions?

«That's why we are consulting on EBCs, new, more rigorous exams for 16 - year - olds, and why we are reforming A levels, with universities and employers responsible for their design.

It was commissioned because England is changing how it runs its GCSEs, so was designed to benchmark new exams and the old ones against one another and against foreign comparator exams for similarly aged young people.

For Grades 6 - 8, the test preps mirror the high - stakes, standardized exams for middle school students.

Head teacher Ian Fenn has appealed for «a period of calm», blaming changes to curriculums and exams for a lack of improvement in some secondary schools.

The first exams for the reformed GCSEs in English language, English literature and maths were held in summer 2017, with results due in August 2017.

The commissioner may contract with entities other than, and including, approved teacher preparation programs to provide intensive teacher training leading to passage of the required certification exams for the desired subject area or coverage.

He supports legislation filed recently in Springfield that would ultimately get rid of PARCC testing in high schools and give kids the choice of taking one of two college entrance exams for free.

Her scholars earned 100 % proficiency on both the Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 End of Course exams for two consecutive years.

Just keep in mind that schools that don't use the SAT or ACT for admissions purposes may still use the exams for awarding scholarships.

Closing schools presents numerous other challenges such as how to reschedule Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) exams for high schools students.

In states such as Illinois, where the Council of Community College Presidents adopted a policy in January 2015 to use results on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams for placement in institutions statewide, these new policies provide students an important signal about whether they are ready for college.

Just as charter middle schools have outperformed their host districts on the state's ELA and Math exams for years, these numbers show that charter high schools are continuing crucial work that goes into making sure kids graduate and are prepared for life beyond the classroom.

AP exams for English Language and Composition have been moved to May 23 and for Macroeconomics have been moved to May 25, both at their original locations.

Many parents will pay for private tutors in an attempt to help their children pass entrance exams for selective schools, but does this give pupils from wealthy families an unfair advantage?

Schools in England have been told to expect big variations in their GCSE results because of the largest set of changes to exams for several years.

State education officials said that in the past year, they have ordered its vendor to scan more than 50,000 exams for any errors since Summers brought it to their attention.

I am trying to devote time to my son to help he study for his IGCSE exams for this January (he does not appear to be grasping the material well at school) and would also appreciate if you could send me an editable version of the study plan.

The Syracuse City School District's Office of Health Services will not be administering any physical exams for students.

In June, both the NEA and AFT endorsed a two - year moratorium pushed by the Gates Foundation, proposing a delay in high - stakes consequences tied to Common Core exams for students and teachers.

Today if you don't recognize Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction by name, you're probably familiar with his policies — high stakes reading exams for third graders, merit pay for teachers, A-F grading for schools.

While some certification requirements do assist in preparing future teachers, the $ 600 cumulative costs of required exams for all teacher candidates in New York State - approved teacher prep programs are often prohibitive.

Each spring, MacLaren holds diagnostic exams for students transferring into grades 7 and higher to ensure proper placement within our program.

The ideal student exams for Van Roekel, he said, «are not based on an individual [student] test provided to an individual teacher.»

The press was led to believe the Regents pulled back the passing scores on the Common Core English Language Arts and math exams for the Class of 2017 from 75 and 80 to a score of 65 on both exams.

However, exams in most states do not require knowledge of specific subject matter taught in high school courses; instead, they are general math and reading exams for which no specific subject - matter knowledge is expected.

Many nations allow students to select the subjects they will be examined on; some, such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland, and England, offer both high - level and intermediate - level exams for some subjects.

High - stakes, summative tests that assess content mastery and learning skills (BASIS Curriculum Schools Comprehensive Exams and the College Board Advanced Placement Exams for example) are foundational for learning.

Silk is a certified National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Examiner, and a Certification Exams for Oklahoma Educators Content Reviewer.

The testing groups Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are developing exams for students» mastery of those standards using Race to the Top money.

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

The target, set by law for the 2014 - 15 school year, is 100 percent proficiency on math and English exams for all students.

The state eliminated two history exams for elementary and middle school students, a fifth - grade writing exam and science and history exams for third - graders.

Secondly, we have had final exams for over 100 years.

Most high - performing countries have gateway exams for entrance into postsecondary education — and sometimes even for secondary education.

A set of summary sheets for the required practicals specified in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics paper 1 exams for AQA GCSE combined science trilogy.

Rules that stop families going on holiday during term - time are stopping some children from taking external exams for dance, drama and music.

At the end of the 2017 - 18 academic year, the first students will sit exams for the strengthened GCSE Religious Studies courses, which were introduced in September 2016 as part of the reform of GCSE qualifications.

A countdown guide to give to students to support learning in the build up to the summer 2017 additional science exams for AQA.

In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton called for voluntary, national exams for fourth - grade reading and eighth - grade math.