Sentences with phrase «inclusion of student test scores»

«This pressure dramatically increased with the inclusion of student test scores in teacher evaluations, with some states using them to account for as much as 50 % of evaluation scores.

Kelly Riley, executive director of Mississippi Professional Educators, said the inclusion of student test scores came from a federal push for accountability.

The inclusion of student test scores was a requirement under the federal initiatives, for example.

Not exact matches

As the numbers of students scoring in the very high ranges of APTS were, naturally, significantly smaller than those scoring in the mid and low ranges, the sample size was expanded by the inclusion of highly gifted students who had been tested at GERRIC's clinic, which specializes in the assessment of intellectually gifted children and adolescents.

The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students in the 2009 Virginia testing samples did not significantly impact achievement as average scores, and proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.

Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and senior research advisor to Smarter Balanced, said that the inclusion of the more in - depth questions makes up for some of what was lost after the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which emphasized using standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student learning.