Sentences with phrase «interested in test scores»

I got interested in test scores at the end of the 1980s when we had 10 - year - old data collected through test scores when young people were ages 14 - 21.

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What predicted a leader's success far better than tech skills or test scores, they found, was simply making a human connection with followers, being interested in their lives and careers, and being accessible to them.

I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

We'll have kids who aren't interested in learning and we'll deal with them by writing IEPs (or whatever they're called) to lower the bar so that our dumbbells can maybe crawl over it.We'll have administrators lie and cheat their way to better test scores to get people like Bloomberg off their backs.

Among those with Tourette's who met the cutoff for autism, 83 percent also met criteria for OCD, the researchers found, noting that high scores were especially evident in the part of the autism test that measures restrictive interests and repetitive behavior.

Others, however, question whether a greater reliance on video games is in students» best interests, indicating there is little proof that skillful game play translates into better test scores or broader cognitive development.

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Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

In order to take a piece down ~ the class has to average 90 or above on tests.The students naturally became motivated (because they were interested) ~ and my test scores benefited.

Such offsetting behavior would be of interest in its own right, and we stress that our test - score results below reflect the effects of any such changes.

In addition, if they describe a plan for generating student - level scores as workable, they risk alienating the organized interests in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!In addition, if they describe a plan for generating student - level scores as workable, they risk alienating the organized interests in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!in California who relish the prospect of a year without test scores (even if it's not a year a without testing!).

The researcher wrote: «When students were given choices, they reported feeling more interested in their homework, felt more confident about their homework and they scored higher on their unit tests.»

Contributors to the Magnuson and Waldfogel collection are interested only in the third of those questions, with specific reference to the test - score gap between African American and white children.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

After teachers like Joseph - Charles and Philkhana began applying the Rutgers techniques in the classroom, students showed more interest in math, and the math test scores at what were among the lowest - performing schools in the state began to soar.

[13] Our outcome of interest is the third or fifth - grade score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)[14] taken in the relevant year between 1999 and 2012, which we standardize statewide at the grade and year level to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

It will be interesting to see what happens with test scores as Success's enrollment grows; how its high school performs (some suggest that Success's elementary schools are outstanding but that instruction weakens in later grades); and how Success graduates fare in the college admissions process and in college.

In the detailed analysis, we are primarily interested in two main outcome measures: the percentage of children reaching the expected standard for their age in English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernIn the detailed analysis, we are primarily interested in two main outcome measures: the percentage of children reaching the expected standard for their age in English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernin two main outcome measures: the percentage of children reaching the expected standard for their age in English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernin English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernin reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernin the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concernin reading were of particular concern).

The high level of interest in local school test scores raises some interesting issues:

The release of test scores for schools in the hypothetical state of Idyllia has piqued the interest of almost everyone — from school superintendents to realtors.

Of particular interest are the report's points about the variation in state cut scores for licensure tests (like Praxis), the need for smarter recruitment efforts for potential school leaders, and the teacher - prep path taken by Finland.

This evidence, along with a new federal requirement that state accountability systems include an indicator of school quality or student success not based on test scores, has sparked interest in incorporating such «non-cognitive» or «social - emotional» skills into school accountability systems.

To address this challenge, we are planning an innovative approach to standard - setting that will take advantage of our online testing platform to allow the participation of as many constituents as interested to review exemplar test items and weigh in on where they think the «cut scores» should be set.

In Zhao's words, «Without interest, you can get good science test scores, but you can't get great scientists.»

Sage is among a group of people interested in education who find many aspects of The Mind Trust plan they agree with, yet are frustrated by the sense that standardized test scores will remain the way success for students — and even teachers and schools — is defined.

I also found it interesting to see that the average White test score in the District is 276.

Value - added measures have caught the interest of policymakers because, unlike many of the uses of test scores in current accountability systems, it purports to «level the playing field» so that value - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the students.

Race to the Top began in 2009, requiring states interested in competing for a slice of $ 4.35 billion in stimulus money to prepare plans that satisfied the Obama administration's education - reform criteria, which include the growth of charter schools and linking student standardized test scores to teacher evaluations.

States interested in competing for a slice of $ 4.35 billion in stimulus money had to prepare plans that satisfied the administration's education - reform criteria, which included encouraging the growth of charter schools and linking student test scores to teacher evaluations.

When your third grader just isn't up to par with reading comprehension (you know that he or she is struggling because of a lack of interest in books, poor test scores, and teacher input) what are you supposed to do about it?

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The multi-billion dollar testing industry — dominated by a few large corporations that specialize in the making and scoring of standardized tests — has become an entrenched interest, a powerful component of a growing education - industrial complex.

He is particularly interested in data - driven educational evaluation, policy - making & analysis, and decision - making systems in K - 12 education that apply both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, mostly using assessment test scores.

We're more interested in raising test scores and «gap closing» than in pushing black and brown minds to solve tangible problems.

Teachers credit the program with renewing their students» interest in science, as well as improving their scores on Michigan's standardized science tests.

Both, he says, «bring about large increases in achievement test scores and continuing student interest in learning.»

«When it comes to the test scores, I think the nitty - gritty is most interesting to parents,» said Kristina Turley, whose children attend school in San Diego's Clairemont neighborhood.

One is devised by Wall Street financiers and politicians who believe in rigidly defined numerical goals and return on investment; they blame lazy teachers and self - interested unions when test scores are low.

The Atlanta report's conclusion that cheating resulted from a culture of fear, one spurred by rising test - score targets, fuels the argument that policies determined by test scores provide perverse incentives that are not in the best interests of students.

Michelle: It's really interesting, seeing what can happen when you use gaming as a vehicle instead of just as looking at gaming for an increase in test scores for a certain content level.

She intuitively understands that while recording her students» singing test scores on a «spreadsheet» might be «interesting,» the real value in administering these assessments is to know more about how her students» singing has changed «over the course of the year.»

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We tend to weight our own experiences using a device much higher than benchmark scores, but for those interested, in the Quadrant benchmark test, the One X performed incredibly well, scoring an average of about 5,000, which is the highest score we've seen other than the One S, which posted near identical results.

For those interested in benchmark test results, my Geekbench 4 tests on the Galaxy S9 + averaged a single - core score of 2390 and a multi-core score of 7861.

Moving onto another CPU test and this time, AnTuTu reveals some quite interesting results, with the G5 ranking higher than the Galaxy S7 Edge which achieved a maximum score of 127938 in our testing.

One thing that is interesting to note is that there is only one phone that scores worse in the multi-core test than in the single core test.

For those interested in benchmarking tests, we ran the Quadrant test on the 7.0 Plus and it scored better than any other Samsung tablets and dual - core phones we've tested.

If you're interested in seeing the scores from those tests you can view them in the gallery down below.

Additionally, test takers that score well on the exam will receive a mentoring session with leading employers in their chosen field of interest.