Sentences with phrase «influencing standardized test scores»

The following assessment of what influences standardized test scores comes from education researcher Christopher Tienken via education blogger Peter Greene.

Limited Reliability: Many factors can influence standardized test scores, including variations in test makeup, whether a student «tests well,» language and cultural factors and how a student happens to feel on testing day.

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The finding that happiness is positively correlated with GPA is significant, Hinton notes, because GPA provides a broader picture of academic achievement than standardized test scores, encompassing multiple types of abilities and the influence of social dynamics.

Furthermore, students in schools where external exams or standardized tests heavily influence the curriculum scored 4 points higher in math, though there appears to be no effect in science.

Reduced lunch eligibility has little negative influence on standardized tests scores.

It is well established that SAT, HSPA (NJ's former HS exit exam), ACT, and all other scores from commercially prepared standardized tests are influence heavily by the socio - economic status of the students in the school and the demographic factors of the community in which those students live.

The 2011 Florida Legislature and Governor Rick Scott tied the future of nearly 200,000 professional educators to high - stakes standardized test scores, dramatically diminished their professional influence over classroom curriculum and cut their pay by 3 % calling it a «contribution» to the Florida Retirement System.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

Apparently relying on standardized test scores that are influenced by economic and social factors beyond a teacher's control are deemed the best way to evaluate an individual teacher....

MC: This study that you've recently authored is called, «The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Agency.»

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

In every standardized achievement test whose scores we use to judge the quality of the education received by our children, family income strongly and significantly influences the mean scores obtained.

The influence of teaching beyond standardized test scores, engagement, mindsets, and agency.

Issue # 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

# 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires that the state's teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students.

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.

A value - added measure based on a standardized test score is primarily predictive of the influence of teaching on standardized test scores; and value - added measures are found to be strong predictors in this capacity.

Children living in poverty have lower scores on standardized tests of academic achievement, poorer grades in school, and lower educational attainment.2, 3 These patterns persist into adulthood, ultimately contributing to low wages and income.4, 5 Moreover, increased exposure to poverty in childhood is tied to greater deficits in these domains.6, 7 Despite numerous studies demonstrating the relationship between family resources and children's educational outcomes, little is known about mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.