Sentences with phrase «just standardized test scores»

, besides just standardized test scores, class rank, grades, and essays, that are essential to understanding potential student success in college and later in life.

In 2015, Trinity College developed a test - optional policy that allows application readers to get to know the applicant well beyond just their grades and test scores.This change in policy stemmed from growing research in the area of non-cognitive skills, which leads us to believe that there are alternative factors, besides just standardized test scores, class rank, grades, and essays, that are essential to understanding potential student success in college and later in life.

ASCD recently provided the House education committee with a letter (PDF) including its recommendations for accountability systems that are based on more than just standardized test scores.

Not exact matches

While Cassin's GRE score was competitive enough to secure her admission to two top business programs — just shy of 700 — she said one thing she wished she had known was how much your standardized test scores follow you, even after the admissions process.

Infants would be examined by medical providers at regular intervals for the presence of atopic dermatitis (using standardized scoring methods) as well as food allergic symptoms and other allergic disease (confirmed by IgE testing), and not just the presence of allergic sensitization.

In 2011, the second year of more rigorous scoring of state standardized tests, achievement dipped slightly across the state, according to figures just released by the state education department.

After just six weeks of the study, all of the children improved their scores in a standardized fifty question national test.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

But for Core proponents, the timing couldn't be worse: Just as states began implementing the new standards, 40 states receiving No Child waivers are also launching new systems to evaluate teachers, which will incorporate some measures of student achievement, including, where available, scores from standardized tests.

Merseth says the aim isn't just to create a charter that must meets state guidelines and scores well on standardized tests but also to focus on the qualitative, social, moral, and emotional questions facing school design.

But now the CFR study says that teachers who are unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests today aren't just unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests tomorrow.

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.

One young woman, Makayla, was a sophomore who had earned just half a credit but scored on par with other students on standardized tests.

The recent ubiquity of standardized test scores has provided new data on just how poorly some schools are performing — particularly schools filled with lower - income and minority students, whose parents make up an important Democratic voting base.

A long - running education poll's latest results this September find «Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.»

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

The true measure of student proficiency, educator effectiveness, and school quality must be based on more than just students» test scores on a few state standardized tests.

In WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration, a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students score «Proficient or Above» when compared to all students (not just economically disadvantaged students) at the district and state level, across multiple grade levels, and across multiple subject areas on standardized tests.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has just asked for a «pause» in implementation of a controversial new teacher evaluation system that uses student standardized test scores to assess teachers as well creation of a task force to study the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

State board President Michael Kirst and other members have made it clear that they intend to replace the API, which calculates a three - digit number based primarily on a school's or district's standardized test scores, with a new system in which test scores would be just one of many measures of student achievement and school performance.

That Apgar score is just the first of dozens of standardized test scores that children will accumulate.

California's Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth - grade mathematics and triple students» math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years.

Districts» pension costs are set to double by 2021 — just as growth in the state education budget is projected to slow down and as pressure mounts for schools to boost standardized test scores.

(Incidentally, former Washington D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee instituted a teacher evaluation system a few years ago that had 50 percent of individual assessments linked to student test scores — in courses where standardized tests were given — but her successor, Kaya Henderson, just dropped it down to 35 percent because of problems with the system.)

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....

Just a few short months after implementing the online differentiated reading program, the K - 8 school saw significant jumps in standardized testing scores despite the fact that it was their students» first year taking the Smarter Balanced assessment.

Another key indicator of success will be if more students, and particularly high - needs students, are not just scoring better on standardized tests but are graduating at a higher rate.

If recent news of California's lackluster standardized test scores was sobering, just wait until individual student results reach household mailboxes.

California just released its third round of scores on new, tougher standardized tests, and now the state is on the hook.

In a sense, the expansion of independent teacher education programs like Relay furthers the creation of a second - class system of education for children living in poverty while middle class children continue to be taught by professionally prepared teachers and have more access to a genuine education that aims for much more than just raising standardized test scores.

Clearly, physical exercise is just one of the necessary ingredients for improving student scores on standardized tests.

As for making student test scores a big part of that process, he says «it's a tough situation because performance on a standardized test can really just reflect that year's mix of kids, or the luck of the draw.

By only examining standardized test scores, the Report Cards miss other, just as vital components of a school that impact a student's life and subsequent success.