Sentences with phrase «inflated scores on»

Students in Texas must get the grades they earn and not an inflated score on report cards under the state's year - old truth - in - grading law, which bans minimum - grade policies, a Texas district judge ruled.

«The evidence is strong that you can inflate scores on performance tasks,» he said, urging that the city at least try out the tests for a year or two before they count for teachers.

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Their hopes for an exciting and high - scoring game artificially inflates the over and creates value on the under.

An inflated market does not mean you spend 94 millino on an older, unproven EPL player who just blew the best scoring chance of the copa america final.

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated.

In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance category.

The results do suggest, however, that the aggregate test scores on the 4th - grade NAEP could well be inflated by the retention policy.

As critics contend, the state's aggregate test - score improvements on the 4th - grade FCAT reading exam — and likely on the NAEP exam as well — are inflated by the change in the number of students who were retained in 3rd grade in accordance with the state's new test - based promotion policy.

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.

In general, studies indicated that high - stakes standardized basic skills tests led to: a) a narrowing of the curriculum, b) an overemphasis on basic skills and test - like instructional methods, c) a reduction in effective instructional time and an increase in time for test preparation, d) inflated test scores, and e) pressure on teachers to improve test scores (Herman & Golan, 1993; Nolen, Haladyna, & Haas, 1992; Resnick & Resnick, 1992; Shepard, 1991; Shepard & Dougherty, 1991, Smith, 1991; Smith, Edelsky, Draper, Rottenberg, & Cherland, 1990).

The Tennessee Department of Education's (TDOE) release of seemingly inflated quick scores, without clarification on how they were calculated, left educators and parents befuddled and upset.

These findings led the researchers to call for further research on issues related to the specificity of the frameworks, effects on equity, inflated test scores, and the validity of the measures.

The Forum on Educational Accountability has produced a blueprint to rewrite the law to focus on improving schools not just inflating state test scores.»

States like New York manipulated the passing score on state tests to inflate the results and bring them closer to Washington's unrealistic goal.

Teachers are more likely to inflate the scores of high - achieving students on the margin, but low - achieving students benefit more from manipulation in aggregate due to the greater density of these students near the proficiency cutoffs.

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.

A furious Atlanta judge had a message for the 10 public school teachers, principals and administrators who — after months of testimony — stood before him, convicted of participating in a widespread conspiracy to inflate students» scores on state tests.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter presides over the sentencing of former Atlanta public school educators convicted of inflating students» scores on state tests.

«Research has shown that when educators are pressured to raise scores on conventional achievement tests, some improve instruction, while others turn to inappropriate methods of test preparation that inflate scores,» they wrote in the Feb. 5, 2008, memo.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Although Harris's assertion that doing this would also help prevent principals from saving truly ineffective teachers (e.g., by countering teachers» value - added scores with artificially inflated or allegedly fake observational scores), on behalf of principals as professionals, I find insulting.

They also say schools that don't backfill are artificially inflating the percentage of students who score proficient on standardized tests.

Inflated test scores, the famous «Lake Wobegon» effect, in which virtually all states were «above average» on norm - referenced tests, have been well documented (Haladyna, 1991; Linn, et al., 1990; Shepard, 1990).

If instruction narrows to focus on the limited sample covered by the test, scores become inflated and misleading.

But you can't rely entirely on just a score or two when several major device makers have been known to artificially inflate their scores.