Sentences with phrase «inflate their scores because»

One particular concern is peer competition: the extent to which teachers feel they need to take steps to inflate their scores because they think their colleagues are.

Not exact matches

Mahrez won the league because his contribution was vital, I remember that season Walcott even scored a hat - trick against Newcastle in a 7 - 3 win, the thing with stats is they are deceiving most of Walcott's 14 goals in that season were not decisive he'd score when we were already 3 - 1 up so the game would end 5 - 2 and inflate his stats!

The probe followed a 2009 audit that found inflated grades for Regents examinations because of scoring inaccuracies at the district level.

Please stop posting inflated and deflated review scores if you haven't even played the game because you're ruining the industry for those of us who just love to play the game; this is neither a 0, nor a 10, it is approximately 7 - 8.5 in all honesty.

Maryland's scores on a national reading test may have been inflated because the state's schools excluded a higher percentage of special - education students than any other state, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

When test scores are «inflated» - by, say, cheating or intense preparation that is geared to a specific exam - observed achievement gains are misleading because they do not reflect a more general mastery of the subject.

Those rates, however, were inflated because the tests became easier and easier, which New York State recognized and corrected the following year by racing the cut scores.

The opposition was further emboldened when the state announced this summer that the test scores on which Mr. Klein's accountability system hinged were inflated because the exams had grown too easy to pass.

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.

These are not fit for purpose because primary schools admitting poorer and less able pupils are forced by market pressures and invalid OfSTED judgements to inflate their scores through the use of behaviourist cramming and other teaching methods that do not result in deep learning and cognitive growth.

Even if you pay your balance off every month (and you should), if your payment is received after the reporting date, your reported balance could be high — and that negatively impacts your score because your ratio appears inflated.

The Nevada Mortgage Lending Division called the inflating of FICO scores through additions of authorized user accounts «deceptive» because it makes credit - impaired applicants appear to be more creditworthy than they actually are.

This is very easy to do in a 100 point system (because of the bracketed question in the previous paragraph), meaning a reviewer under pressure can relieve that pressure incrementally by inflating a score ever so slightly to make everyone involved a little bit happier.