Sentences with phrase «just about the test score»

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«I ask our coaches to go in and visit with classroom teachers about the youngster's presence in the classroom — not just how he does on test scores, but his presence.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Just about the same percentage of voters say teacher tenure should not be based on test scores either.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

With all the media chatter about test scores, merit pay, failing schools, and teacher quality, it's sometimes easy for those outside the school system to forget that it's people — just everyday people with a calling for education — who make up that system.

Educating people who have spent years behind bars is just as much about compassion and humanity as it is about effective study habits and good test scores, say their counselors and teachers.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

Just as we found no evidence in the 2002 and 2004 elections that a large block of voters held incumbents accountable for poor test scores, we failed to find any indication that incumbents in 2002 and 2004 based their decisions about running for reelection on student learning trends.

So, you just sit down and visit or go out and purposefully talk about anything other than school, school kids, teachers, staff members, test scores.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Just as we should be humble about using test scores to identify quality schools, we should be humble about knowing the ideal political or regulatory strategy.

And as Andy Smarick has argued, voucher programs need something akin to authorizers, too, so that decisions about participating schools can be informed by nuance and human judgment, not just by test scores and other data points.

All of those times are important because they help me get to know more about my students rather than just their test scores.

However, while both California [xviii] and national [xix] voters are very enthusiastic about annual testing (with two - thirds or more of both parties» voters supporting this position), they are more leery about the role of test scores in accountability, with just 36 percent indicating this is very important.

For him, the best evidence of this is not just improved test scores or faster mastery of content but when parents say that their children are excited about learning and can't wait to get up in the morning and go to school.

But the more this degree attainment is divorced from knowledge attainment (and test scores), the weaker this effect might become over time (unless employers really just care about conscientiousness, which may very well be the case).

A big change seen in about half the states is a focus on growth — how fast test scores are moving and in which direction, not just how many kids have passed a specific score on the tests.

In addition, the law creates flexibility for state and local leaders to think creatively — beyond just test scores and graduation rates — about how to measure school quality.

You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

Some districts which had curriculum dedicated to the Common Core and teachers who taught to it diligently had low test scores, and some districts that just about ignored the Common Core in curriculum and practice had good scores.

Just recently, the American Statistical Association said: «Most VAM studies find that teachers account for about 1 % to 14 % of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in the system - level conditions.

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

Collecting and sharing data on how their community is mastering learning standards (rather than just scoring on tests) changes both kids» and teachers» thinking about the purpose of assessment.

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?

It's not just focusing on data about the test scores and so on.

Just as soon as the state's new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New York.

The story that resulted — «Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal» — is wrong on just about every point that matters.

WEINGARTEN: Take what Justin just said about test scores.

Just about anyone in education would agree schools should be judged on more than just test scoJust about anyone in education would agree schools should be judged on more than just test scojust test scores.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

School officials said they still have questions about how the rating system will work and whether it truly reflects a school's performance, though they mostly agree it provides a more comprehensive picture than just using test scores.

By Tunji Adebayo The California State Board of Education just adopted a new accountability system acknowledging that the quality of a school is about more than just test scores.

Finally, recognizing that learning is not just about getting high scores on tests, BVP's focus on a positive and joyful classroom environment has led to significant social and cultural outcomes.

When such test scores are reported via press and media outlets, more than just test scores, hierarchical rankings of test scores, and the like are to be reported, given the people of Vermont more holistic understandings about schools in their state.

But there are exceptions that show families don't make decisions about schools just on the basis of test scores.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

A few years ago, working with Muñoz, and looking at racial imbalances, Marshall moved about 200 elementary - school - age Latino students into the advanced track in their schools, even though the students had just missed the test score criteria for entry.

Did I mention these schools score well on standardized tests and other metrics (let's face it, if they've got their act together and have developed a reputation, they do just about everything better....

I worry about people just focusing on that number and getting that number up, when it's not about moving the needle on the test score.

Since I'm so good at prognostication: I predict that state test scores, in New York and elsewhere, will continue to be used as a basis for important policy decisions, despite the fact that test scores tell us just a little bit about the things we care about.

The California State Board of Education just adopted a new accountability system acknowledging that the quality of a school is about more than just test scores.

In addition to the Raptor DCX's test scores, we're also enthusiastic about its core features, although just a bit less so.

Usually when I write a review I'll just add the value for money in the score bar at the bottom and not mention much about it other than in a summary, this games pricing has been set up differently to what we usually see, for example you can buy the full game for about # 30 OR if you're an online multiplayer fanatic and only want to play that part of the game you can buy the Multiplayer version for # 20, now if you've bought the multiplayer and fancy expanding to the full game it will cost you # 15 for the single player being # 5 over the original price, most will think that this is fair, you can get the multiplayer element cheaper and test it out, if you like it you can then grab the campaign, well, this is where it gets dark.

DO NOT USE DRIVE - RITE SCHOOL - And having read the two previous reviews I can only say that I had chosen more wisely and read reviews before wasting $ 400 on an over-advertised and understaffed driving school - we have still not been scheduled for our behind the wheel training after six weeks of beginning our classroom lessons - their communications are non-existent - I had to call several times to finally get a return call about the smallest of issues - their excuse of a limited staff and inability to get students behind the wheel for the required time is ridiculous - I would never, ever use their service again and I would highly recommend that any of you looking to enroll your son or daughter for a driving school NOT USE DRIVE - RITE DRIVING SCHOOL - every individual I have spoken with that used another school had everything completed in six weeks or less - now when you contact Drive - Rite after six week having passed you can not even get a reply - DO NOT SEND YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER TO DRIVE - RITE - YOU WILL REGRET IT - just read on about others» experiences with them as well to see more personal opinions and experiences such as ours!!!! And to add insult to injury, I innocently asked when my son would get his behind the wheel training that we had paid $ 400 back in December and it is now the end of January only to finally be told «we pulled his folder and he did not pass the required state test - the state of Ohio requires a 75 % score and he scored only70 %.

Thanks to detailed case renders from Olixar, just - leaked Geekbench testing scores, and a SamMobile report about the phone's battery, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus have practically been revealed.

With a score of 5,456 in the Geekbench test, the Performance either beat or just about met the speed of the Galaxy S7 (5,498), the iPhone 6s (4,385), the LG G5 (5,357) and the Nexus 6p (4,289).

Geekbench 4 scores that just hit the web confirm as much — Google's Pixels score a 1580 on the single - core test and about 4100 on the multi-core test, while Apple's latest iPhones score 3430 and about 5600.

The Droid DNA, for example, just scored 8,100 and the Galaxy S3 (another phone) scored about 5,000 in tests earlier this year.

Talking about the benchmark scores, just to check the potential of the device, we tested it out for Anututu and Vellamo scores.