Sentences with phrase «found on standardized tests»

Easy - to - understand definitions are provided for over 400 mathematical terms and expressions typically found on standardized tests, used in textbooks, and encountered in everyday mathematical situations.

A list of math terms commonly found on standardized tests that students need to be familiar with for success.

The «12 Powerful Words» strategy will help students master the nomenclature found on standardized tests.

Animals A to Z is the primary grade version: «The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end - of - sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others.»

Classroom instruction in these charters frequently appeared to honor the acquisition of basic, fundamental skills exactly the topics and items commonly found on standardized tests — over more cognitively engaging tasks such as arguing, defending, supporting, valuing, or evaluating.

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A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

While colleges struggle to find ways to measure 21st century skills, students continue to be judged largely based on GPA and standardized test scores — metrics that we know are often biased and flawed.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

Dr. Ng and colleagues hope their standardized testing method «will allow for more focused research on applying mesopic vision function findings to patient care.»

In order to find out if this was really the case, the systems biologist Dr Sebastian Beggel, who has worked extensively on the biology of amphipods for a long time, carried out a standardized laboratory test together with his working group in Weihenstephan.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

«Studies have found that schoolchildren with stomach worms perform worse on standardized tests that their parasite - free peers,» said Binning.

I assume they standardize the test and are able to reveal how much lead (whether ppm or mcg) was found, then based on the serving size we could know lead concentrations.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

He found that the archdiocesan students outscored their public school counterparts on standardized tests in grades 4 and 8 in both 1999 and 2000.

Coleman found that variation in school resources (as measured by per - pupil spending and student - to - teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation in student achievement on standardized tests.

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• An earlier study in Illinois found that students exposed to more authentic intellectual work saw greater gains on the standardized tests than those not exposed to this content.

CASEL reports: «A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.»

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

Lessons Learned from State SAT and ACT Scores,» researchers Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, and Robert M. Carini compared states that are strongly teacher unionized with those that are not and found a clear link between teacher unions and higher state performance on certain standardized tests.

A 2011 study by David Figlio and Cassandra Hart of found that Florida's STC program had a small but statistically significant impact on public school performance on standardized math and reading tests.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.

She notes that teachers are busy preparing students for the writing found on state standardized tests, making it hard to squeeze playwriting in.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

Would the proponents of school accountability policies such as standardized testing come out on top, or would the findings support the opinions of the critics?

Their findings are documented in the report, «The Union City Story: Education Reform and Technology — Students» Performance on Standardized Tests.»

Researchers found that it took Fairfax ESL students four to nine years to reach grade level on standardized tests in reading and other subjects.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

For instance, University of Michigan psychologist Harold Stevenson found a correlation of 0.52 between the ability to name the letters of the alphabet on entering kindergarten and performance on a standardized test of reading comprehension in grade 10.

He found a surprisingly large correlation between how well teachers did on this relatively easy test (the pass rate was 97 percent) and their students» achievement on a standardized test.

Finally, the only study to have estimated the effect of charter school attendance on students» job prospects, although based on nonexperimental methods, finds that attending a Florida charter school increased students» earnings as adults despite having no impact on their standardized test scores.

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

Researchers found that students of low - performing teachers who'd been randomly selected to join a partnership scored 12 points higher, on average, on standardized tests than students of low - performing teachers who didn't join a partnership.

Contrary to contemporary pedagogical thinking, we find that students score higher on standardized tests in the subject in which their teachers spent more time on lecture - style presentations than in the subject in which the teacher devoted more time to problem - solving activities.

These patterns are consistent with the findings of a 1997 study by Dominic Brewer and Dan Goldhaber, which found that more in - class problem solving for American 10th - grade students in math is related to lower test scores on a standardized test.

The New York Performance Standards Consortium was founded two decades ago on the belief that there was a better way to assess student learning than dependence upon standardized testing.

The latest study focuses on six Boston schools that, in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements in students» performance in the statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

A study by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood found that students in New York City attending standalone middle schools score lower on standardized tests than students of the same age who attend K - 8 schools.

WASHINGTON — In the most comprehensive study of its kind yet conducted, researchers from Boston College have found evidence to confirm the widespread view that standardized and textbook tests emphasize low - level thinking and knowledge and that they exert a profound, mostly negative, effect on classroom instruction.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

Ruby (2006) found that middle school science students in treatment schools demonstrated significantly greater improvement on district standardized tests than students in the matched control schools.

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»