Sentences with phrase «future achievement test scores»
The consensus seems to be that there is a substantial decay over time in value - added to future achievement test scores.
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Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»
They emphasized that, while many people might think closing the gap is impossible, black - white test scores, evolving research on intelligence development, and motivation as a nation are all indicative that a future without the achievement gap may exist.
Indeed, from such tests, many policymakers and pundits have wrongly concluded that student achievement in the United States lags woefully behind that in many comparable industrialized nations, that this shortcoming threatens the nation's economic future, and that these test results therefore demand radical school reform that includes importing features of schooling in higher - scoring countries.
While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.
The seeming contradiction between the lack of persistence of value - added on achievement test scores and the significant impacts on adult outcomes frames an important puzzle for future research.
The decision to judge programs based on third grade test scores dismisses the full range of skills and capacities developed through early childhood education that strongly contribute to future achievement and life outcomes.