Sentences with phrase «just test score»

«One of the big shifts is just acknowledging that, more than just a test score, you really have to look at a child's entire experience and ability to learn,» said Cecelia Leong, associate director of programs for Attendance Works, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing student success by reducing chronic absenteeism.

Parents choose St. Martin of Tours because of its rigorous academic program and safe, nurturing environment; students are never just a test score or enrollment number, but valued as made in God's own image.

The true measure of student success is much more than just a test score and such success requires support well beyond effective instruction.

The problem is that school quality is much broader than just test score results.

These lessons focus primarily on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just test scores.

We also need to continue explorations of data of all types (not just test scores), building on, for example, important research that's helping us develop early warning indicators to prevent students from dropping out.

Finally — and many would say most importantly — Her Majesty's inspectors (based in a free - standing agency) constantly visit schools, appraising their performance on multiple indicators (not just test scores), giving them detailed feedback on what they need to do differently, and making all of that public.

The law requires that states consider additional measures beyond just test scores to assess student progress and school quality.

Luke Reynolds (recommended by Adam Steiner - @steineredtech) thinks students are «more than just test scores,» and hence focuses less on the test and more on overall classwork.

I think good teachers reflect on their practices — and not just test scores.

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

When the students come first, and not just their test scores, the result means that every child regardless of background gets the help and support she or he needs to succeed.

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.

The whole point of collecting all of this information — and DQC is clear that they mean much more than just test scores — is to use it to inform inquiry, human judgment, and decision - making.

She says many parents elect to send their kids there because they recognize school is more than just test scores.

The API, which scores a school's academic success based on test scores, has been suspended for two years to allow for the transition as well as a makeover of the index itself to include more than just test scores.

For example, ESSA requires states to include a broader set of factors in school accountability systems rather than just test scores; provides funding for states and districts to audit and streamline their testing regimes; and allows states to cap the amount of instructional time devoted to testing.

The test score issue comes as California's school accountability system is undergoing a broad revision, as the Brown administration and state schools chief Tom Torlakson search for more achievement measures than just test scores.

This bill moves the API scores towards broader and more holistic measures than just test scores.

It's not just test scores, it's an array of perspectives and hard data that help drive positive student outcomes.

When educating the whole child, you need many different data points and not just test scores.

We must redefine success as more than just test scores.

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

«They would lead to creation of high - quality assessment systems that use a rich range of evidence to help schools improve, not just test scores to label them passing or failing.»

• 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.

In fact, the Every Student Succeeds Act he signed last December will also require states to measure school and district performance on more than just test scores.

Around that table, we were devising a better way to measure success for all kids, focused not on the inputs, but on the outcomes — and outcomes beyond just 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.

We already have a new system of authorizing that provides the structure necessary to review charter schools at all levels, not just test scores.

Using multiple measures, instead of just test scores, to determine an education endeavor's success can lead to enhanced student performance, better decision making, and a more comprehensive view of school quality and student achievement.

One of the main freedoms CORE wants from the federal regulations that currently govern NCLB are, according to Superintendent John Deasy, «a more balanced accountability system that deals with things other than just test scores.»

If we want to improve educational outcomes we must work to improve the entire system — not just test scores!!!

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.

«This evaluation is much more holistic than just test scores,» said Palmer.

For example, states need the flexibility to evaluate school performance across multiple academic indicators — not just test scores — and to focus resources in the schools that need the most help.

The recognized Schools of Opportunity demonstrate that school quality can be measured by far more than just test scores.

The study is a unique analysis, which for the first time compares K - 12 education internationally on an array of social and economic indicators, not just test scores.

After months of negotiations, Congress outlined new requirements for statewide accountability systems that give states the opportunity to design their own systems that move beyond just test scores, while maintaining a clear federal role to protect historically underserved students.

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed by President Obama in December 2015, also requires states to hold schools accountable based on more than just test scores.

Student perceptions are a powerful complementary measure of academic rigor, beyond just test scores.

Redefining Ready: How to focus on whole student, not just test scores New York State School Boards Association November 7, 2016

It's more than just test scores.»

There is subset of teachers who laments that there is «more to teaching than just test scores.»

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.

Not exact matches

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

'' [Besides] saving time, there's no real incentive to cheat on these tests because typically it's just to get a certification of «hours» for internal compliance training, so your score doesn't matter, and if you don't pass, you can take it again.

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.

Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.'s and test scores, but we don't anymore, unless you're just a few years out of school.

I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let children around the world starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.

The fact that I scored 100 % on the little online multiple - guess sub-sample of the test is not a testament to my intelligence, just my general knowledge of religions.