Sentences with phrase «include standardized test results»

School counselors may also use other resources, including standardized test results and other student data to accurately plan, monitor, and manage a student's development.

Not exact matches

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

I have signed a law reducing the significance of testing for students, including eliminating standardized testing for students in grades K - 2 and removing standardized test results from students» permanent records for five years.

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).

The authors wrote that, overall, the results of 46 articles published between 1985 and October 2008 found that «there is substantial evidence that physical activity can help improve academic achievement, including grades and standardized test scores.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

The law requires districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

A long - running education poll's latest results this September find «Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.»

Parents can ask for the evidence that is being used in support of a retention decision, including examples of their child's academic performance, standardized test results, and other related measures, including the student's history of behavior in class and emotional maturity.

Over the border in Georgia, Gwinnett County has developed a «Results - Based Evaluation System,» in which fully 70 percent of the score for schools and their principals is tied to student achievement, as assessed by indicators including standardized test scores and measures of where schools are in closing the achievement gap.

Meanwhile, state Superintendent Tom Torlakson has continued to caution against comparing any Smarter Balanced Assessment scores, including 11th - grade results, with those from previous standardized tests, instead saying this year's scores should only serve as a baseline going forward.

The local measures could include results from commercial standardized tests, as well as results from teacher - scored assessments.

Because classroom teachers can effectively use all available assessment methods, including the more labor - intensive methods of performance assessment and personal communication, they can provide information about student progress not typically available from student information systems or standardized test results.

These included signing on to the Common Standards effort, facilitating the unfettered growth of charter schools, and allowing for the possibility of including student test standardized test results in evaluating teacher performance.

The charter operator must first submit an application to the State Department of Education explaining their work, including areas such as students» academic progress (interpreted by the state as standardized test results), curriculum, staff development, finances, and governance (management & administration) of the school.

The letter grade is based 80 percent on the school's achievement score (which uses various data including student performance on end - of - grade and end - of - course standardized test scores) and 20 percent on students» academic growth (a measure of students» performance in relation to their expected performance based on the prior year's test results), resulting in a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. «Low - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performing.

No union — in any state — should be assisting with the development of teacher evaluation programs that include the use of Common Core standardized test results.

As a result of Superintendent Scarice's leadership, the democratically elected members of the Madison School board, with the participation of teachers, parents and the community, developed a model teacher evaluation system that did not include the use of standardized tests scores.

Standardized test results don't take into account how factors outside of a teacher's control impact student performance on the day the test is taken; these include factors such as whether or not the student slept and ate well prior to the test, social and emotional occurrences (e.g., student's parents are going through a divorce, there is a serious illness in the family, student had an argument with a best friend just before the class in which the test is given, student doesn't feel well that day).

The board wants to include students» test scores as part of a teacher's performance review, something union leaders have opposed because they believe that standardized test results are an unfair and incomplete measure of a teacher.

I condemn in the strongest language possible reforms based on standardized test results and evaluations for teachers that include these results because they deny the creativity and humanity of both the child and the teacher.»

The reasons are complex and include an overreliance on standardized tests, narrow conceptions of intelligence and the resulting definitions of giftedness, and the procedures and policies that guide local and state gifted programs.

By using standardized laboratory equipment including a fixed volume mold and proctor hammer, test results can be used as a reliable basis for verifying volume calculations as they relate to material demand, orders, and shipments.

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).