Sentences with phrase «few test score data»

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In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

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.

At the individual school level, with a few exceptions such as the large HCZ, there are less data on school test score effects and attainment effects.

The results are quite surprising: after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

Once we adjusted the data for the effects of socioeconomic status, birth weight, participation in WIC, and a few other variables, we were able to fully account for the difference in test scores.

after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had led to the identification of early indicators of students academically at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.

The academy is a K - 8 school where fewer than half the students scored proficient or above on standardized math and reading tests in 2014 - 2015, the most recent year for which state data are available.

Today's enthusiastic embrace of data has waltzed us directly from a petulant resistance to performance measures to a reflexive and unsophisticated reliance on a few simple metrics — namely graduation rates, expenditures, and the reading and math test scores of students in grades 3 through 8.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

California's top education official sought Tuesday to counter federal criticism of the state's reluctance to use student test scores to evaluate teachers, paying a visit to Long Beach to highlight one of the few California school districts to make extensive use of such data.

And they aren't talking about a few test scores here — but a big ol' heap of data on every student.

Getting this myth «believed» meant new opportunities to turn tax dollars into profits — profits from, for example, paying a few teachers more and many teachers less; profits from designing standardized tests; profits from renting school facilities; profits from managing schools; profits from data management systems and test - scoring systems; and profits from selling software platforms and computing devices.

We shifted towards standardized forms of inquiry, looking at student achievement data for the handful of Mam - speaking students who had been at Bridges for more than a few years; looking at achievement data for the 15 Mam - speaking kindergartners; looking at the entry level of Spanish proficiency (as measured by the IPT Language Proficiency Test) for native Spanish speaking students in our bilingual program and comparing the IPT scores of Mam - speaking children.

In places like Florida and Washington, D.C., value - added models have accounted for such factors, in part because of the limitations of using fewer years of test - score data.