Sentences with phrase «for taking standardized tests»

First of all, it doesn't come with a keyboard, which is still essential — and legally required — for taking standardized tests.

• Reviewed test - taking strategies to prepare students for taking the standardized test, resulting in a 20 percent improvement in test scores.

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SURVEY PROVIDER AIMS TO STANDARDIZE TELEMEDICINE QUALITY OF CARE: As telemedicine adoption takes off among US providers, there's a growing need for a standardized test to determine the quality of care and patient satisfaction.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

A wonderlic result doesn't take into account a players» level of test anxiety or other factors such as educational training for standardized tests in the past.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Age eight is the point at which many children start taking standardized tests at school, and expectations for homework, focus, and abstract thinking increase.

In October, for example, after more than 80 % of the parents voted to have their kids not take the exams, Castle Bridge Elementary School canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests.

It reminds New York that part of the agreement for receiving what are known as Title I funds was that the majority of students take the standardized tests.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Quintanilla, who works at the National Braille Press as its director of major gifts and planned giving, is looking for a tool that could help blind children read maps and graphs when taking standardized tests.

They also hope that university admissions officers consider taking into account what applicants «know» (for example, what they learned in their high school elective classes), in addition to their grades and standardized test scores.

For nearly 2,000 years, starting in A.D. 141, the sons of a broad cross section of Chinese society, including peasants and tradesmen, took the equivalent of standardized tests.

For example, the study compares results from schools that took several different standardized tests without making any effort to ensure that the results are comparable.

They don't record which students taking the state's standardized math tests completed them at the end of an online course, for example, and which took them after a face - to - face class.

But practice in timing their essay writing helps prepare them for the timed writing section on the annual standardized tests they take.

How long did it take for us to realize that a standardized test score isn't the best way to measure teacher effectiveness?

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

The Fordham Institute and Teach Plus cohosted a discussion on the time that teachers and students dedicate to preparing for and taking standardized tests.

Building experiences for students to play with a test can help to defuse anxiety, create familiarity and comfort, offer concrete strategies for success, promote collaboration and problem solving, and open up important conversations around taking standardized tests.

As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

Authors of a RAND report, «Using Web - Based Testing for Large - Scale Assessments,» identify several key advantages of having students take standardized tests via the Web.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

Students take pre-tests to prepare for the state's standardized tests.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lFor instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lfor Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lfor being too low.

The fact is, no parent gets excited about his or her child taking a standardized test, just as we don't get excited about taking our kids for annual checkups at the doctor's office.

As they prepare for college, many 11th graders take the SAT or ACT and perhaps Advanced Placement exams as well, and they probably don't relish the idea of also having to take state standardized tests.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academicalFor the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academicalfor standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academicalfor receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

Taking a look at previous standardized test scores for your current students is beneficial in several ways.

Certainly, test scores are important proxies for what students are learning, but currently there is no standardized assessment taken by both public - and private - school students in grades K — 2 in Indiana.

If we truly took the approach of providing an individualized educational experience for every student, we would realize that we don't really need or want standardized tests anyways.

Local education decisions traditionally have been the provenance of states and local districts, but Bush led the way for more federal involvement — requiring students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to take standardized tests for school «accountability» purposes.

Among the report's recommendations for reducing undue pressure on high - school students are making standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice, raising awareness of overloading on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and prioritizing quality, not quantity, of extracurricular activities.

For example, the only standardized tests that will count toward Adequate Yearly Progress, the federal performance measure, will be those that students take in the highest grade at their school; fifth grade in a K - 5 school, 8th grade in middle school and 12th grade in high school.

Updated with correction: With the State Board of Education's approval, California became the eighth state Wednesday to award a contract to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium for the standardized tests in the Common Core State Standards that students will take next spring.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

Tell them why you are concerned about the excessive testing and demand transparency for the standardized tests that our state's legislature and department of education require our students to take.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

Public schools in 29 states took Common Core standardized tests for the first time this spring - another milestone in the long transition to higher academic standards.

However, as more of the time in schools is focused on preparing for and taking standardized tests, these more powerful uses of technology are in some places being neglected.

Critics counter that if success continues to be defined by students» ability to take standardized tests, true educational advancement — for all students — is impossible.

California also clashed with federal officials last year when it discontinued the standardized tests in math and English language arts students have been taking for more than a decade.