Sentences with phrase «field test schools»

For accountability purposes, field test schools could use their 2012 - 13 scores in the relevant grades.

Not exact matches

Like schools with physical classrooms, here you'll find field - tested professors to learn from, other working adult students to relate to, and academic and career coaches to guide you.

The women learned to grow rice and test new rice varieties and farming technologies through a farmer field school.

Offers field trips, classes, clubs, co-ops, socials, networking opportunities, email updates, National Honor Society, home - school graduation ceremony, annual group testing, Mentor Mom program, and teen activities and socials.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

Most schools will be supportive of your child going to work with you, as long as the day doesn't fall on a field trip or big test.

In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriSchool grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the currischool gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

Field - tested in 2010, New Yorks QUALITYstarsNY is a project of the states Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) and provides program quality standards for each modality of early childhood programs (centers, public schools, and family / home providers).

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

Quinn said public school children shouldn't be forced any longer to take private testing companies» field tests, which aren't graded, and which are only intended to help for - profit companies such as Pearson develop questions for the next year's exams.

The Southold school board has made an official statement opposing «field tests» tied to the controversial Common Core mandates.

Pearson reps said Monday that they are not responsible for deciding whether field testing is done in schools.

We are recruiting elementary, middle, and high school science teachers willing to field test our multiple - choice test items with their students in...

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

Then, to narrow the field, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), led by Ryan Adams, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, developed new machine learning algorithms to predict which molecules were likely to have good outcomes, and prioritize those to be virtually tested.

The data indicated that helmet rating scales may be somewhat misleading to parents or schools considering helmet purchases as higher ratings based on laboratory testing did not necessarily correlate to increased protection «on the field» for high school football players.

Currently testing the gliders in a large water tank and small field experiments, her team is closer to robotically mimicking the teamwork of a fish school.

Chris Curtis, an entomologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says laboratory and field experiments in Britain, the US and Canada have found no evidence that female mosquitoes are repelled or bite less within «earshot» of a wide range of frequencies tested.

Professor Alvaro Mata, from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science, said: «The technique opens the possibility to design and create biological scenarios like complex and specific cell environments, which can be used in different fields such as tissue engineering by creating constructs that resemble tissues or in vitro models that can be used to test drugs in a more efficient manner.»

Assessment linked to middle school science learning goals: A Report on field test results for four middle school science topics.

We are recruiting elementary, middle, and high school science teachers willing to field test our multiple - choice test items with their students in April, May, or June of the 2014 school year.

AAAS Project 2061 is recruiting elementary, middle, and high school science teachers to field test multiple - choice test items with their students this spring.

The results «essentially confirm» earlier studies — and they should finally put to rest the idea that girls aren't going into technical fields because they can't do the math, says Ann Gallagher, a psychologist who studies testing at the Law School Admission Council in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Field - testing included under - resourced schools in Los Angeles and well - resourced schools in the Minneapolis suburbs.

Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and his team have created a portable smartphone attachment that can be used to perform sophisticated field testing to detect viruses and bacteria without the need for bulky and expensive microscopes and lab equipment.

Starting my scientific career with archaeological fields schools, my strong interest in mathematics and a desire to quantitatively test hypotheses drew me to population genetics.

Greater focus on raising student performance on math and reading standardized tests may also lead schools to cut field trips.

Time: With all the testing (MAP, ACCESS, PARCC) and popular field trip months between February and May, we decided that January was the best month for our school (as long as it didn't snow).

This is also a good opportunity to alert parents to: future events, testing, joining PTO, school policies (tardies, illness, discipline) athletics, clubs, promotional requirements, field trips and procedures for good school / home communication.

If they choose to follow this course, they should redesign their field tests to function as statewide assessments, and provide scores back to students and schools.

The free resources, field - tested by teachers, are being used in middle school, high school, and college classes, building the pipeline of students interested in STEM careers.

And annual tests help level the playing field between schools, enabling policymakers to judge schools based on how well they serve their students, rather than the type of students they serve.

To be sure, there is nothing in our current forms of direct evaluation that requires schools and teachers to abandon a broad, knowledge - laden curriculum to boost test scores; but it should be abundantly clear that if the field hasn't gotten this message nearly fifteen years after No Child Left Behind, it's not going to.

When testing is over, schools are often inclined to take students on «reward» field trips to places like amusement parks, bowling alleys, and movie theaters.

Below is a collection of catchy sayings that work as cues to be quiet, the first ones appropriate for early and middle grade students, and the later ones field tested to work with high school kids.

Yet neither school faces media charges of poaching the best students, private contributions creating an uneven playing field, screening out low performers, having a demographic that doesn't match the surrounding neighborhood, or creating an obsession with testing.

Through it all, both unions have continued working on implementation and continued to collaborate with test developers SBAC and PARCC, which received additional funding from ED to help schools get ready for the tests that they were developing and field testing.

The system has already undergone initial field tests in a school setting with students aged six to eight.

«It will take people to stop blaming the tests, or [considering] Common Core as the end all be all objective,» he said, noting that it's time for the field of education to start looking at what else fills a school.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has formed a network of school districts and universities in 19 states that will field test both its assessments and the operation of its certification system.

The Data Wise Improvement Process provides a clear, field tested blueprint that teachers and school leaders can use to examine test scores and other student data to catalyze school wide conversations that drive instructional improvement.

The third approach is also VAM - based, but fully levels the playing field between schools and teachers by eliminating any association between school - and teacher - level measures of test - score growth and student characteristics.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

Through surveys, focus groups, field tests, and interviews, Circumventure is asking fundamental questions: Do people want what schools are offering?

Seventh graders at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Mass., including Nimra Mian, reflected here in an iPad, look at a practice PARCC test to gain familiarity with the format before a field test of exams tied to the common - core standards.

A field test involving over 700 students from nine schools assessed the knowledge gains attributable to playing MedMyst.

A field test of students from five schools assessed the retention of content after playing The Reconstructors series titled Nothing to Rave About.

4) Why did the Charlotte - Mecklenburg School District field - test on students 52 different standardized tests?

The poll results reinforce Weingarten's call on Tuesday for a moratorium on the consequences — for students, teachers and schools — of Common Core - aligned assessments for students, teachers and schools until the standards are properly implemented and field - tested.

The Smarter Balanced practice test to be released at the end of May and the Smarter Balanced field tests to be deployed in Spring 2014 will provide additional opportunities for schools to gain experience in deploying the assessments.