Sentences with phrase «from admissions tests»

Private voucher schools, in contrast, were allowed to consider results from admissions tests and parent interviews when making admission decisions.

Hofstra University is joining the growing ranks of campuses across the country that are making the SAT and ACT optional rather than requiring students to submit scores from those admissions tests when they apply.

It seems sensible to continue using textbooks alongside activities, concluded the study authors, a team from the admissions test company Educational Testing Service.

Here is an example that The Wall Street Journal gave from the admissions test to Jersey City High School in 1885: «Write a sentence containing a noun as an attribute, a verb in the perfect tense potential mood, and a proper adjective.»

Not exact matches

Kaplan found that 65 % of the responding admissions officials who accept scores from either test say there is no advantage to applicants submitting one over the other.

From preschool - admission tests to the SAT and the ACT — even when we tell ourselves as individuals that these tests don't matter, as a culture we put great faith in them.

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: Success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

Sepsis evaluation involves prolonged separation from the mother, admission to special care, invasive tests, and, most likely, administration of antibiotics until tests results are available.

We also accept results from the Secondary School Admissions Test administered by SSAT.

- Class A and B - strict isolation on admission, pending culture test results - Staff that come into contact with those patients wear gloves, a gown, mask and cap - Class C are screened and limited contact made until proven negative - Class A staff are removed from the hospital immediately and stay at home until proven negative - Class B are restricted in their movement at work until proven negative

Millennium gives preference to students from below Houston Street, and so far all those who meet the admissions criteria — an A average, good attendance and strong test scores — have always been offered a seat.

The money will also help pay for new programs aimed at prepping students from under - represented neighborhoods ace the test that is used for admission to these top schools.

As the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.»

North Korea officially acknowledged the failure of its latest rocket launch Friday (April 13) in a rare admission from the reclusive nation, which defied international warnings not to launch what the United States and other countries saw as a missile weapons test.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

As a result, state tests were made much more challenging and the percentage of students identified as proficient dropped from 90 percent or more to around 50 percent, a candid admission of the challenges the Tennessee schools faced.

Predicting freshman grade - point average from college - admissions and state high - school test scores.

The effects of high - stakes testing programs on outcomes such as retention, graduation, and admission into academic programs are different from the results of using grades alone.

A new movement is trying to refocus admissions away from purely individual academic achievement and toward something you can't measure with SAT tests or resumes padded with public service points: real concern for others and the common good.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

At a meeting here, officials from American College Testing, the Iowa City - based firm that administers the widely used college - admissions test, outlined the procedure it used to set standards on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

Some argued that Louisiana's onerous regulatory environment — particularly its open admissions requirement and state test mandate — drove away better - performing private schools from participating in the program.

But the Princeton, N.J. - based test - maker has already received inquiries from admissions officials seeking such a tool, ETS officials say.

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

This MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) admission test is from 1869 but still confuses even A-Level students.

• Tuition or fees at a qualified school or an eligible postsecondary institution • Textbooks • Educational therapies or services from a licensed or accredited practitioner or provider • Tutoring or teaching services • Curricula and related materials • Tuition or fees for an online learning program • Fees for a nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, an advanced placement examination, or any exams related to college or university admission • Contributions to a college savings account • Services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs • Any fees for the management of the ESA

In Switzerland, policies vary from one locality to the next, and admissions tend to be more personalized through teacher recommendations than through standardized tests.

Researcher's Goal: An Admissions Process That Rewards «Ethical Character» Chronicle for Higher Education, 10/4/15 «The project grew from the worry that many teenagers, focused on academic achievement and their own success, have too little concern for others and the world beyond their test - prep manuals.

Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students» failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education.

Parental reports indicate that an admissions test prevented only two of the lottery winners from attending their chosen private school.

Complete all required forms for admission and submit official test scores and official transcripts from all colleges or universities attended.

From entry to kindergarten to admission to higher education, tests mark some of the most important educational and career decisions in a student's life.

Admissions tests, supplemented by interviews, are given to pupils from year two upwards.

After an intense application process (in which I never again want to mention the three - letter word for standardized test to obtain graduate school admission) * and huge amounts of good luck, it's still incredible to think I'm now writing to you in my apartment from Cambridge, Massachusetts where I've been since September as a student in the International Education Policy program of the Masters of Education.

It is much easier to convey in short strident sentences what some, but not all charter schools do well — raise standardized test scores — than it is to convey the problems and complexities that arise from a hierarchal education system in which admission is determined by luck.

Data from college admissions tests can provide a valuable measure of student achievement, but the non-representativeness of test - takers is an important concern.

Not one four - year college in NJ is willing to accept the results from the PARCC tests as an admissions indicator.

Allow me to elaborate: Typically, to protect both the state and the testing company, an assessment contract that includes the use of an assessment created for the intent and purpose of college admission, not state accountability, would include a clause requiring that the test items be reviewed and approved for use by a content committee from the client state.

In other areas, pupils who pass the test are then ranked by admission criteria, which can include the distance they live from the school or whether they already have a sibling there.

«These findings support the view that high school performance is an excellent predictor of college success, and that efforts to recruit students from the full range of California high schools may help us fashion student bodies that are more socially diverse and more academically engaged than is possible when admissions criteria are based only on grades and test scores.

The study, which brought together insights from teachers, universities and academics, also found that schools focus too much on increasing pupils» attainment and not enough on preparing them for interviews, personal statements, and other university admissions tests.

A dozen of those states use those tests to measure achievement, the same number as last year, but a big jump from years ago, when only a handful used college - admissions tests for that purpose.

Students who score at Level 4 will be exempt from having to take English or math placement tests after they gain admission to a California State University campus.

Gibb first revealed plans for the agreement in his response to a recommendation from the parliamentary education committee that the 11 - plus test should not be the only basis for admissions to grammar schools.

It is telling that, of the hundreds of students who have graduated from Success Academy elementary - and middle - school charter programs in New York City, none gained admission in 2014 or 2015 to the city's highly competitive specialized public high schools, and only six (out of 54 who took the admissions test) were admitted in 2016.

Segregating students with disabilities from non-disabled students by incentivizing the creation of largely unregulated private schools for students with disabilities, and then allowing private schools to refuse children's admission such that the private testing / evaluation scores can be higher than for public schools that must take all students.

That said, several of the schools have test - optional admissions and do not require standardized test scores, and the University of Rochester has test - flexible admissions and will accept scores from standardized tests other than the SAT and ACT.

While The College Board and its president, David Coleman, the architect of Common Core, is focused on increasing its dwindling market share, many colleges and universities have moved away from reliance on such test scores in their admission policies.