Sentences with phrase «in student test»

Jackson, who led Al Raby High School and Westinghouse College Prep, will focus her energies on continuing the improvement in student test scores and graduation rates.

I would like to commend the Ogden City School District, including teachers, administrators, principals, school board members, Superintendent Smith, and various community leaders for the amazing progress in student test scores, graduation rates, and new programs in the Ogden City School District.

In her first three years at Blaine, the school saw a steady rise in student test scores, and then a slight dip for the next two years.

From these data, the researchers calculated a 10 percent increase in student test scores of an average principal who improved her «demonstrated abilities in all 21 responsibilities by one standard deviation» (p. 3).

For example: there would be a 10 percentile point increase in student test scores resulting from the work of an average principal if she improved her «demonstrated abilities in all 21 responsibilities by one standard deviation» (2003, p. 3).

As I discussed last week, the differences between teachers only account for at most 20 % of the variance in student test scores, and more than 60 % of score variance correlates to out - of - school factors.

In Houston, this led to substantial drops in student test scores and attendance.

But it does explain why research shows that the difference between teachers only accounts for at most 20 % of the variance in student test performance.

Educators in North Shore School District 112 have outlined a long list of steps they're taking to reverse a decline in student test scores and create instructional consistency across district schools.

«DPS shows progress in rigorous NAEP, being only one of six districts nationally to show increases in student test scores, while beating state's gains on math and reading,» the district said in a press release.

Experts across the country confirm, as the American Statistical Association pointed out, that a teacher has a tiny effect on the variance in student test scores: from 1 percent to 14 percent.

«That way we can put this issue to rest,» Bennett said, adding he felt the e-mail leak overshadows increases in student test scores during his tenure.

Thus, it is now widely understood that any system that attempts to rate teachers on student test scores, or the «growth» in student test scores, is about as «rational» and «verifiable» as a coin toss.

Growth in student test scores accounted for 50 percent.

Schools are awash in student test scores, disaggregated in all sorts of ways.

The research reviewed here suggests that teacher value - added explains a modest, but not negligible, fraction of variation in student test scores during the initial year.

Many states set a minimal pace of growth in student test scores for a school to be deemed proficient in the early years, followed by more aggressive growth standards later.

Researchers found no difference in student test scores even after teachers spent as much as 60 hours in training.

In fact, schools implementing this model saw greater gains in student test scores.

For example, the network recently created a new teacher evaluation system that incorporates multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including classroom observations; survey responses from colleagues, students, and families; and growth in student test scores.

Duncan also has advocated expansion of high - caliber public charter schools and initiatives to evaluate and pay teachers in part on gains in student test scores.

«Value Added Models» (VAMs) for looking at gains in student test scores from one year to the next are promoted as tools to accomplish this goal.

First - generation accountability, in compliance with the prescriptions of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, exposed vast, inequitable differences in student test scores across and within schools.

Most states want to measure schools by growth in student test scores.

REVIEWS «When the Obama Administration decided to spend the billions it got for schools as part of the stimulus package to launch the Race to the Top program and the NCLB waivers, forcing many states to adopt teacher evaluation based on changes in student test scores, leading experts warned that this «value added» system did not have a reliable scientific basis and would often lead to false conclusions.

While there's no doubt that many factors are involved in producing the outstanding improvements in student test scores we see in Chicago, AUSL has been deeply involved in the work for more than a decade at scale and has had real impact.

The value - added assessments of teachers — which use improvements in student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness — has grown in popularity across the country with support from the federal Department of Education, which has tied teacher evaluations to the Race to the Top state - grant program, reports the New York Times.

I am sorry that The Times has taken up the cause of evaluating teachers based on improvement in student test scores.

A voluntary performance pay program to begin this fall could add $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 to D.C. teachers» salaries, based on significant improvement in student test scores and other yet - to - be specified criteria.

The common standards have been a source of rancorous debate in New York, particularly after common - core - aligned assessments triggered a sharp decline in student test scores last spring.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

(ASCD members report that their state officials advise them to prepare for significant drops in student test scores when the new assessments are initially implemented.)

Ballona ranked among the top schools in California for its meteoric rise in student test scores, drop in student disciplinary cases, and increase in teacher satisfaction.

In addition, a 10 percentage - point increase in the share of teachers that are covered by labor organizations is generally associated with a 1.1 - 1.4 point increase in student test scores.

Meanwhile, class size has significant impacts in all four models: An increase of one student per teacher is statistically associated with a 0.8 to 1.1 point drop in student test scores compared to the national average.

Click to enlarge NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in...

We know our efforts are paying off in a number of ways, ranging from improvements in student test scores, attendance rates and parent survey results, to a decrease in failing grades and disciplinary incidents.

NASHVILLE — Offering middle - school math teachers bonuses up to $ 15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in what they said was the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay.

At the same time, groups that endorse teacher ratings that factor in student test scores and often clash with the teachers unions also applauded her appointment, with one calling her «an inspired choice.»

[2] And there is a new push to use changes in student test scores — a teachers» value - added — to assess teacher preparation providers (TPPs).

This is a completely separate concern from the fact that, at best, measured «teacher effects» may only explain from 1 % to 15 or 20 % of the variance in student test scores, a figure dwarfed by the variance explained by factors beyond the control of teachers.

We find that increases in private schooling produce considerably large gains in student test scores and living standards.

In 2012, a pair of analyses published by Harvard University's Strategic Data Project found that the students of Board - certified teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District and in Gwinnett County, Georgia, outperformed their peers by approximately two months in math and one month in English Language Arts, based on gains in student test scores.

The district «s initial response to the new state curriculum and tests, and to the decline in student test - score results, was mainly to call for principals to organize school - based curriculum - writing projects, which were carried out with little district guidance or input.

In Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press), my analysis of state and national test results concludes that this policy has failed — no significant increase in student test scores has occurred.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

DSST enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved national renown for its extraordinary results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

by Tom Kane, Amy Wooten, John Tyler, and Eric Taylor This study of Cincinnati's teacher evaluation system finds that the teachers who receive high ratings from trained evaluators who observe them are also more effective at promoting gains in student test scores.

DSST has achieved national renown for its extraordinary results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.