Sentences with phrase «for different student subgroups»

Does it produce consistent scores for different student subgroups?

Not exact matches

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

For several days in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers in grades three to six charged with identifying students in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher level on the math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive, targeted remediation.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

States would still have to test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and break out the data for whole schools, plus different «subgroups» of students (English - learners, students in special education, racial minorities, those in poverty).

Under ESSA, states will still have to test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, as well as in science three times between grades 3 and 12, and break out the data for campuses as well as different subgroups of students.

When the letter grades were converted to numbers (4, 3, 2, 1, 0), «average relative reading ability» could be determined for subgroups of students, defined as printing at different rates.