Sentences with phrase «first statewide tests»

California gave its first statewide tests aligned with the Common Core standards last spring.

Not exact matches

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

In Massachusetts, Romney defended statewide graduation requirement tests, which started during his first year as governor in 2003.

Statewide graduation requirement tests were started during his first year as governor in 2003.

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

According to state regulations, all English Learners must be tested on the statewide Stanford 9 tests first administered in 1997 - 98, the year before Prop 227.

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.

First is the cost of designing and implementing a statewide testing system.

Third grade is the first time students are tested statewide, and fifth grade is generally the end of elementary school, so these two grades represents the bookends of ages in which we observe performance statewide in elementary school.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

#page #That's the first time Heather had heard that Indiana had replaced its well - regarded state tests, ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress — Plus) in favor of a brand - new federally funded set of assessments keyed to Common Core.

It is the first statewide assessment to use portfolios, in addition to standardized tests, to measure student abilities.

One dominant model is the streamlined letter - grade system first adopted by Florida, which focuses on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

In 2006, most states were in their first years of statewide testing programs.

This story has been updated to clarify that the Smarter Balanced math scores for the Cupertino and San Francisco school districts exceeded the average statewide scores for the first year the test was administered.

For the first time, the DOE has compiled charter - school scores on the state's proficiency tests as a single district, which allows for comparisons with the statewide average.

First, the court concluded that the state has a compelling interest in (a) not socially promoting third - graders who do not exhibit the requisite reading proficiency and (b) receiving federal education funding, which requires 95 percent participation in specified statewide achievement testing.

Some school districts, including Seattle, give shorter tests that use the same technology, but this is the first time the personalized testing will be used in Washington on a statewide basis.

Tuesday's annual release of state test scores included scores from students in the statewide voucher program for the first time.

Navigio — The validity problem due to lack of appropriate implementation stems primarily from the «opportunity to learn» requirement for large scale high stakes tests that was advanced in the late 70's for the first statewide high school graduation tests, with that requirement established by the courts in 1978 and having held up for more than 35 years for the design and implementation of all large scale K - 12 tests.

But as departments have begun to release first, second, and third drafts of accountability plans to gather more feedback, constituents are inevitably split on policy decisions regarding statewide goals, testing and accountability systems.

In July 2012, the superintendent and deputy superintendent, who are African American, renewed her contract for 2012 - 2013, which was the first school year that the school participated in the Mississippi Statewide Accountability testing.

Postscript: On August 7, 2015, the teachers, non-teaching staff, parents, and students of Eastside Memorial High School were notified that their school has reached a rating of «acceptable» on the STAAR (formerly the TAKS the state's primary statewide testing assessment) for the first time in 10 years and was rated the number school in the state for achieving academic progress over a single academic year.

These standardized tests were administered to students statewide for the first time in 2014 — 15 school year.

They have a flexible day, an extended day, so they're still maintaining the contract but they're using some flexibility ion what that looks like... we'll know this year because this s the first time these students are taking the std test statewide, but they're feeling very strong about it.

Formal Recommendations on Revising Statewide Testing Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in CaliTesting Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in Calitesting in California.

Before 2006, when First People's first came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, less than a quarter of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming's statewide standardized math tFirst People's first came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, less than a quarter of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming's statewide standardized math tfirst came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, less than a quarter of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming's statewide standardized math tests.

They also pointed that the test is new and it was the first time it was administered statewide online, which presented new and unique challenges.

Statewide test results released Tuesday by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction include for the first time performance data from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which involves about 110 schools serving around 10,000 students.

Following a statewide ranking system put into place in 2012, for the first time 20 percent of her evaluation score was tied to local tests and 20 percent was based on whether students progressed on state tests administered every spring.

The state gave practice tests last year, but the results were not publicly released, making today's numbers the first temperature - taking of students on a statewide basis that can be used for comparative purposes in the years ahead.

The statewide bar passage rate average for first - time test takers was approximately 62 %.

The new testing program, the first of its kind in Florida, is certified by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and is available statewide from the American Safety Council's www.FirstTimeDriver.com website.