High progress with
high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing an excellent job at supporting academic growth compared to most other schools.
Strong progress with
high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other schools.
The vision was sold to us based on the assumption that
higher test scores mean better education.
Like NCLB, it assumes that
higher test scores mean better education, even when those scores have been purchased by intensive test - prep activities.
Not exact matches
Breastfed children had
higher mean scores on
tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized
tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had
higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.
Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which
means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.
This
means that in many of California's public
high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good
test scores.
While this
means that some of the students, whose
test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the
high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.
The horizontal axis reflects the
mean test score growth for
high - SES students and the vertical axis reflects the
mean test score growth for low - SES students.
For example, the evidence is clear that
high - stakes
testing can produce severely inflated
scores,
meaning increases in
scores far larger than real improvements in student learning.
Participants who had earned relatively
high — though still not passing —
scores on the placement
test passed at a
mean rate of 68 percent, similar to students who were not assessed as needing remediation and who took the statistics class the year before.
Each of these results is statistically significant at a very
high level,
meaning that we can be highly confident that the
test -
score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.
In the classroom, news of lower
scores would
mean continuous drills on
test material, said Lee Sparks, a senior at T. C. Williams
High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
In Shanghai, for example — which had the
highest mean PISA
score of any jurisdiction in mathematics in 2012 — 27 percent of students in the target population of 15 - year - olds did not take the
test, due in part to internal migration policies that prevented enrollment; in the United States, that exclusion rate was around 11 percent.
When they speak of «achievement» or «performance,» they
mean higher scores on standardized
tests.
When they speak of «effective teachers,» what they
mean is teachers whose students produce
higher scores on standardized
tests every year, not teachers who inspire their students to love learning.
If Adele's SGP is 50, it
means that her growth in
test scores is right in the middle: Half of the similar students who
scored 263 last year
scored higher than she did this year, and half of them
scored lower.
The 44
higher - performing schools (those with average school - wide math and English
test scores a full standard deviation above the
mean) «create a shared, school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.
But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of
score trends on
high - stakes
tests, to the
meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about
testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).
In
high school, BASIS students must complete a minimum of 6 AP
tests to graduate — and average a minimum
score of «3»
meaning «qualifying.»
For us, being recognized as the
highest performing charter school in CT
means so much more than above average
test scores and achievement results.
To be sure, 48th percentile still
means that 52 percent — more than half — of all SAT and ACT
test takers
scored higher than the average new teacher.
Moreover, these
high attrition rates
mean that Black and other students of color often end up with inexperienced teachers, also resulting in lowered
test scores.
«The pressure to show
high test scores and get kids into college, combined with the broad leeway given to charter schools to suspend and expel students,
means the «difficult to teach» kids have been effectively abandoned,» said investigative reporter Andrea Gabor.
Higher standards and quality assessments aligned to those standards
mean that initially,
test scores will seem lower.
The four schools that ranked the lowest
score on the «statewide» rank, but ranked the
highest scores on «similar students,»
meaning students were
scoring low on
tests overall, but were doing better than students at schools with similar demographics, described by Robitaille as «beating the odds,» are:
«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it
means to truly have a
high - quality education, where we look beyond
test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.
His analyses show that «across subjects, teaching for
meaning is associated with
higher NAEP
test scores.»
Test scores are increasingly used to sell real estate, which
means property in
high -
scoring districts is bid up, making those schools harder for poor or moderate - income people to access.
Schools with lower standardized
test scores had
higher rates of teacher exits,
meaning that these schools were disproportionately impacted.
For college - bound
high school seniors, weak
test scores in the spring can
mean remedial courses on campus in the fall.
As shown in Table 1, students in the viewing condition had a
higher mean score on the 12 - item written classroom observation
test (7.74 correct, sd = 1.64) than those in the coding condition (6.64, sd = 1.75) or the
test - only control condition (6.48, sd = 1.18).
Roberts - Holmes says the
test risks making social inequality worse, as parents with
high expectations will prepare their children, which could
mean these infants have a
higher score and that
higher expectations will follow them throughout their school careers.
Worse, the attitude that if a child fails a
test she should take comfort that it is only a «brief failure» is completely out of touch with the severely punitive nature of
high - stakes
testing these days, in which a low
test score can
mean a student does not graduate, teachers are fired, and whole schools are shut down.
Another key lesson - learned: Like it or not, SAT
scores matter a lot — not just in getting admitted, but also in persisting — which
means pushing
high school juniors into extensive preparation work for the
test.
Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated
test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one
high bar for proficiency across the country.
For example, on the mathematics portion of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to
test, poor students (among those from lowest quartile in family income), who attended schools that served the poorest families (a school in the
highest quartile of those receiving free and reduced lunch), attained a
mean score of 425.
More poverty
means lower school
test scores; less poverty
means higher school
test scores.
Test scores at the zone's
highest - performing middle school are in the bottom 9th percentile statewide,
meaning more than 90 percent of other similar schools
scored better.
School age children who received such nutrients over the course of a year behaved better (
meaning they gave teachers more «on task time») and
scored higher on achievement
tests than their peers who just received placebos.
The implications
meant not just loss of funding, but also lower
test scores and
higher dropout rates.
But when the researchers compared California schools districts, based on their English learners» standardized
test scores and mastery of English proficiency, and then followed up with site visits and interviews with administrators, they discovered that many of the most successful districts viewed the Common Core as a
means to
higher achievement for these students, and used strategies in line with its goals to achieve their good results.
Meaning that poor performers who have made substantial improvements to their
test scores are classed in the same group as
high performers who have not see dramatic improvements.
Lastly, better local school districts generally
means having
high test -
scores and
high school ratings according to pro-suburban standards often set by outsider consultants (Erickson, 2012, p. 259).
It's also worth noting that the
mean score on the Literature subject
test has been edging upward in recent years — it is over 30 points
higher than it was just two years ago.
Competitive effects studies may have
high external validity, but they have lower internal validity than RCTs,
meaning we don't have as much confidence as we would with RCTs that there is a causal relationship between school choice programs and
test score gains by students who remain in public schools.
Safety, Reliability & Mileage Acadias built after January 2011 are Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Picks,
meaning they
scored the institute's
highest rating «Good» in all four crash
tests the institute performs: front, side, rollover and rear, and have standard electronic stability systems.
The 2011 (and 2010) Ford Taurus is designated a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
meaning it
scored the institute's
highest rating (Good) in front, side and rear crash
tests and a roof - strength
test, and that it comes with a standard electronic stability system.
As a note, when I back
tested this portfolio formation strategy covering 5,509 unique companies for the period May 1, 1969 to April 30, 2011, I found that value firms with the lowest
SCORE had a
mean annual return of 54.38 %, while the
highest SCORE value firms had a
mean annual return of 13.32 %.
According to temperament
tests, pit bulls
score extremely
high, the American Pit Bull Terrier achieved a passing rate of 86.8 percent (better than collies, golden retrievers, and beagles), which
means they rank fourth
highest of the 122 breeds
tested.