Sentences with phrase «gains on standardized tests»

Raymond's Stanford - based organization, CREDO, finds that overall students in Los Angeles charter schools make greater gains on standardized tests in both math and reading than students at district schools.

- Data from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment shoes that, in a single year, students with the weakest 5 % of teachers made a half - year's worth of reading gains on standardized tests, while those with the top 5 % of teachers gained a year and a half.

Gains on standardized tests are especially large when the programs entail acceleration of instruction.

Central to such changes is the idea that teachers should be rewarded when their students achieve outsize gains on standardized tests.

A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted.

The study also found that student gains on standardized tests reflected meaningful learning and critical thinking skills, not just test preparation or memorization — a frequent concern of critics of the value - added approach.

In its early years, Rocketship schools in California made significant gains on standardized tests.

Unfortunately, the author of this blog fails to mention that the Gates study relies on score gains on standardized tests to compare to other measures in order to test for reliability.

The authors also investigate whether high - value - added teachers have benefited by being assigned students who would have made greater gains on standardized tests for unobserved reasons (such as family factors that can not be gleaned even from tax returns).

• 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.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

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.»

These poor educators are often teaching children with horrible disabilities who will never show any learning gains on a standardized test.

Not exact matches

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

The gains show up on national standardized tests and the city's own tests in reading and math, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The San Diego - area Barona Indian Charter School, for example, posted big gains in student performance on standardized test scores in the 2003 - 2004 school year, besting the state average.

Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200 studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10 points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including violence, diminished.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

Henderson emphasized the steady gains the schools have made on national and local standardized tests and acknowledged the magnitude of work that remains to be done.

Since restructuring into a more inclusive learning environment, both River View and Summer Heights have seen gains — for all students, but especially for students with disabilities — on NCLB - mandated standardized tests and in - school assessments given throughout the year.

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

Duncan's «growth and gain» only mean one thing — year - to - year changes in scores on one - shot standardized tests.

Obama's education reform blueprint brings us full circle, as it itself is an innovation built upon knowledge gained during NCLB (in fact, growth - model testing was piloted during NCLB after the Bush administration observed the negative effects of over-emphasis on standardized testing).

«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

One study out of Stanford University, which helped design the PACT, found that for each additional point an English Language Arts teacher scored on the exam, which is scored on a 44 - point scale, students averaged a gain of one percentile point per year on California standardized tests.

LA Unified's scores on state standardized tests continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains, according to results released Wednesday.

By the 4th year, those kids who received the suite of RTL, RFS & SSS make huge gains on our standardized achievement tests.

Standardized test scores may be rising in the city's public schools, but those gains on paper do not translate into any meaningful improvements in the lives of the city's poorest students, said former New Orleans education official and activist Dr. Andre Perry.

In a study of three districts using standards - based evaluation systems, researchers found significant relationships between teachers» ratings and their students» gain scores on standardized tests, and evidence that teachers» practice improved as they were given frequent feedback in relation to the standards.

It is quite plausible that teachers who are effective at producing gains on a given test are also good at producing gains in deeper cognitive skills not captured by standardized tests.

LA Unified Superintendent Michelle King said at a news conference last week that the district's improvement over last year on the state's standardized tests was among «the highest gains that were achieved among urban districts in California.»

Prodded by the Education Department, most states have set up evaluation systems for teachers built on the gains of their students on standardized tests, alongside more traditional criteria like evaluations from principals.»

Including the omitted children, Krueger found a gain of only 1.44 percentile points on standardized tests, a figure that is not statistically significant.

The D.C. Public Education Fund congratulated Flamboyan Foundation partner schools, in its recent newsletter, for their impressive gains on the 2013 D.C. standardized tests.

Some districts define the value - added score as the average learning gain made by students on a standardized test in a given teacher's classroom, in a specific subject area, in a specific year.

Thus, if California were to keep these old rules, a school that should be applauded for its strong gains for English learners would fall in the «red zone» on the display developed by the state to indicate how a school is doing on a number of measures, including standardized test scores.

The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains of all.

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.

Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200 studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10 points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including violence, diminished.