Sentences with phrase «how valid test score»

Prior to 2013, when Common Core testing was introduced, New York students had posted much larger gains on the local state tests than on national tests, calling into question how valid test score gains were during the Bloomberg administration.

Not exact matches

While these tests do assess standards and the items have been field tested and correlated against other items to ensure a more valid measure of those standards, it is still a snapshot and it is limited in how these test scores can inform students and teachers about learning strengths and next steps.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

I asked SDE who will set the cut scores and how they can possibly have proof that these scores are valid representations of «mastery» when the test is new, as they will only have one year of results and it isn't designed to test mastery.