Sentences with phrase «grading tests by»

Instead of grading tests by hand, teachers can spend more time studying student progress, making informed inferences about student learning needs, and providing timely interventions.

These initiatives would, for example, limit national benchmarking to the three grades tested by NAEP.

Not exact matches

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

My grade - school science teacher demonstrated the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar by mixing them in a test tube and placing a balloon over the top so it would inflate from the gas that formed.

Our coconut oil adheres to only the highest quality standards by passing all supplement grade testing, more than is needed for the food industry.

Our organic coconut oil adheres to only the highest quality standards by passing all supplement grade testing, more than is needed for the food industry.

UNPARALLELED STANDARDS - Our coconut oil adheres to only the highest quality standards by passing all supplement grade testing, more than is needed for the food industry.

The testing referred to by Cornucopia was done to identify low molecular weight carrageenan as a percentage of food - grade carrageenan.

The same help, he said, was offered to him by his own instructors when he first began a tour of duty in which officers are expected to score 100 percent on the monthly written tests, and anything below 90 percent is a failing grade.

The Boss should please not send them out on Loan until he has fully tested them by given them some Premier league games to play to see if they have made the grades.

A book entitled Personal Fouls, by Peter Golenbock, was about to appear, accusing Valvano and his staff of fixing grades, hiding drug - test results from authorities, diverting millions of dollars from the alumni club to the players and paying the players off with automobiles.

Players were literally told to sign up for these classes by academic advisors so that they did not have to go or take any tests and they would receive a grade.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

Up until about the sixth grade the child's progress is monitored not by way of tests and report cards.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A.» The Tiger Mother believes that children owe their parents everything and «must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud.»

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

Beginning in fourth grade, spelling tests, math quizzes, and book reports are assigned and evaluated by the class teacher.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

The calculated growth is determined by a New York State Education Department (NYSED) formula that factors in poverty, a student's prior test scores, whether a student has repeated a grade, whether a student is an English language learner or a student with disabilities.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

The bill requires that all school buildings serving students in pre-K to grade five must collect a sample for testing, while students in grades six through 12 will be required to collect samples by Oct. 31.

On Tuesday, New York was one of the states whose students in grades 3 - 8 were taking computerized English tests, but were interrupted by what the Tennessee education commissioner called a «cyberattack.»

If they passed it by school grading originally and the state audit finds an error does the school receive a warning or are students required to retake the test / class when necessary?

It follows the boycott by tens of thousands of students of the third through eighth grade English tests earlier in April.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

The revised rules, unveiled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday, put more emphasis on state tests and set higher standards for good grades.

She said she agrees that transparency is important as the state continues to update the test to adapt to the controversial Common Core standards, which have been adopted by dozens of states and outline what students should know at each grade level in English and Math.

RUP member Melissa Rock spoke of «proportional grading expansion,» which can only be mitigated by making more tests multiple choice, diluting the education.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

An analysis of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one out of every six students eligible to take the third - through eighth - grade tests in New York State sat at least one of them out this past school year, part of the so - called opt out movement.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

For example, students may attribute a good grade to their studying while a bad one was caused by unfair test conditions.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

Like the other self - assessment instruments mentioned above, the CBI is a multiple - choice test that is graded by computer.

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

Corcos and colleagues confirmed it was safe for the participants to do high - intensity exercise by giving them a cardiologist - supervised graded exercise test to evaluate the heart's response to exercise.

In math, the girls outscored the boys in the test that was scored anonymously, but when graded by teachers who were familiar with their names, the boys outscored the girls.

An «investigational new drug» application was required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the pure synthetic (pharmaceutical - grade) resveratrol in the study.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

«After developing our scale, data from follow - up testing confirmed that students» engagement scores were positively correlated with indicators of performance, such as good grades and independent learning outside of school motivated by interest.

By testing different grades of complexity of the stimuli, the time for the motor reaction and the «processing time» could be differentiated

The team notes that the results of their study suggest that current means of testing and approving food additives may not be adequate to prevent use of chemicals that promote diseases driven by low - grade inflammation and / or which will cause disease primarily in susceptible hosts.

Even though young women prefer biology careers, they do not have less aptitude in physics or mathematics if school grades and standardised tests are anything to go by.

Genetic tests have shown that many garments labeled as 100 percent pima cotton, a high - end and expensive strain, were often mixed with other, lower - grade cottons by the time they ended up in stores.

In the American sample, for instance, the chances were good that a 10th grade girl who did well in the standardised mathematics test set would be contemplating a career involving physics by the 12th grade.