Sentences with phrase «getting state test results»

-- Four in 10 districts report having to wait between two months and four months before getting state test results.

Not exact matches

Under the new «emergency regulation,» educators still would get annual «growth» scores from Albany based on results of state tests given during the moratorium, but the scores would be advisory.

Less than two weeks ago, the people of Hoosick Falls started getting the results of state - sponsored blood tests — which show elevated levels of PFOA.

The long - term plan is to have all districts use the computer - based test for annual state tests because it has the potential to make the assessments stronger instructional tools and will make it possible to get test results back sooner, according to the state Education Department.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Getting these longer - term results is especially important given what I wrote earlier about how the negative effects are probably driven by the misalignment between the state test and the private school curriculum.

The only answer that makes sense to us is for a state to make sure that its math and reading standards are clear, coherent, and rigorous; that its tests line up with those standards; that its schools and educators are held to account for getting better results in terms of real student learning; and that research is done to examine the effectiveness of various curricular products.

«As a result, we've got 49 different states with 49 different standards and 49 different testing systems.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

However, if the NAEP results are accurate, it is not true that poor children are now at least getting the basics: the score increases on state (or local, as in Chicago) tests simply indicates that somewhat different particular things are taught, but overall NAEP results show there usually is no improvement in states which test the most and use tests for high - stakes decisions about students.

In fact, Wyoming's test scores went up across the board that year — despite the fears of state education officials, who asked the federal government months before getting the results to throw out the 2010 data.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

Some charter schools get better graduation rates and test score results than traditional schools, but others don't, and the charter sectors in some states are ridden with scandal.

California school districts got a dose of bad news last week when new state test results showed many students aren't meeting state standards in math and English.

All of my Calculus students are seniors, so they have taken the state math test before I get them, and I look at those results.

So just when we thought the Common Core SBAC testing farce couldn't get worse, the Hartford Courant is reporting that that the reason that the North Haven and Westbrook test results were so out of line with the rest of the state is that high school students in those two towns «took the wrong test.»

In all the years I have taught, I have never really gotten a surprising result from state tests.

In addition to reversing their position on the SBAC test, the CEA and AFT - CT have been working extremely hard to get the Connecticut General Assembly to pass Senate Bill 380 which would prohibit the state from using the results from the Connecticut's Mastery Testing program in the state's teacher evaluation program — a proposal that Malloy and his education reform allies strongly oppose.

The state's decision to revamp or overhaul standardized tests for elementary and middle school students has the support of School District U46 CEO Tony Sanders if it means test results will get to school districts more quickly.

Her school gets amazing results: 95 % of kids pass the state math test, and 84 % pass English.

But Polikoff sees the results as a clear political win for Common Core detractors hoping to get their states to throw out the standards and the new tests aligned to them.