Sentences with phrase «less on standardized testing»

It is for this reason that we should keep an eye on New Hampshire's pilot of a new kind of assessment, one that more holistically examines multiple measures of student performance and focuses less on standardized testing.

The new law focuses less on standardized testing requirements and transfers federal control of school accountability to the states.

Test Drive: New Hampshire teachers build new ways to measure deeper learning Schools across the country are watching as some New Hampshire schools start relying less on standardized testing and more on performance - based assessments.

And now, eight districts are also exploring a way to assess student learning that relies less on standardized tests, and more on locally developed performance tasks.

The report recommends changing accountability systems so schools concentrate less on standardized tests and more on developing the «host of non-cognitive skills found to be related to later success.»

Not exact matches

Research shows that kids who get fed are sick less, pay more attention in class, and even do better on standardized achievement tests.

Researchers believe growth in the time kids spend on computers and watching TV, plus a trend in schools toward rote learning and standardized testing, are crowding out the less structured activities that foster creativity.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

Studies have shown that students who eat breakfast at school score better on standardized tests and skip school or are tardy less often.

Research shows that kids who eat breakfast at school perform better on standardized tests, exhibit better classroom behavior, and are less likely to be overweight.

Three new regents elected by the legislature this week are expected to help lead an ongoing reversal in education policy in New York to less emphasis on controversial standardized tests.

The comptroller promised the parents that his Department of Education would include direct input from the parents and community education councils and less emphasis on standardized tests.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

So in addition to doing worse on standardized tests, having higher BMIs, or being less socially competent, the marshmallow test predicts that impulsive individuals may have brain activity similar to those of drug users.

Students who consumed breakfast tested higher in standardized test scores, were absent less from school and were more on time to class.

Even so, 81 percent of BASIS DC students were proficient in reading and 77 percent were proficient in math on the D.C. standardized test results released in July 2013, less than a year after the school opened.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

Book Claims Negative Impact of SATs In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

As school systems add more and more curricula for teachers to cover — and put more and more emphasis on standardized test scores — many teacher say they have less time to be creative.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

In fact, groups of less - affluent students out - performed groups of more - affluent students on standardized tests in the eighth grade if they attended a smaller school

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.

Less than one - third are reading and writing at grade level, and barely more than one - third are performing at grade level in math, according to results on California's standardized tests.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

For example, California, the country's largest and most financially distressed state, spends less than $ 14 out of its $ 8,955 per - pupil total educational outlay on statewide standardized testing.

Most parents want to see their neighborhood public schools strengthened, with small classes and less emphasis on standardized testing.

So too did the Palm Beach County School board in its resolution calling for a testing overhaul and less reliance on standardized tests.

Often more progressive and with less emphasis on standardized tests, unzoned schools are popular with a wealthier, more educated parent demographic.

Jon, AF pays its teachers about 10 % more than their host district pays its teachers on average, spends slightly less total $ $ on a per pupil basis, and academically outperforms its host districts by wide margins in terms of standardized tests in reading, writing, and math, graduation rates, and college entrance.

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

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.»

For elementary and middle schools, the grades will largely represent how well a school's students performed on standardized tests at one given time (that will be 80 percent of the grade), and, to a lesser degree, how much students» performance on those tests has improved over time (20 percent of the grade).

Part of Cuomo's frustration is that 95.6 percent of teachers in New York were rated «effective» or «highly effective» during the 2013 - 14 academic year despite less than 40 percent of grade 3 - 8 students being assessed «proficient» on their standardized tests the same year.

Like a lot of teachers, she gets frustrated by the «experts» and the politicians who are constantly proposing «No Child Left Behind» and «Race to the Top» schemes, along with other grand plans that invariably add up to more standardized testing and less focus on actual education.

This could allow schools to spend less time on standardized testing and teaching to the test, and instead devote more time and resources to formative assessment designed to help develop more appropriate services and interventions for students.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

The No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) narrow, regimented approach to accountability led to reduced attention for subjects other than English language arts and math, overreliance on standardized testing, and less focus on meeting students» all - around needs.

In discussing the need for a kids - first agenda, Austin cites data points that show that less than half of 2016 graduates were eligible for the state's public university system and that 71 percent of LA Unified students were not proficient in math on state standardized tests last year.

Most of the 40,000 teachers who responded to a 2009 online questionaire sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Scholastic said that state standardized tests are far less important in gauging student achievement than formative, ongoing assessments in class, class participation, and performance on class assignments.

Without being held accountable to the incessant pressure of increasing student performance on a standardized test (see Hew & Brush, 2007; Walker & Shepard, 2011; Zhao, 2007), Mike found technology use to be «definitely less prescriptive, especially for us.»

Latinos are less likely than the average American to believe students spend too much time on standardized testing.

And to the issue of standardized testing, more than 60 % of Florida's school districts have now signed onto the national petition demanding that government rely less on high - stakes standardized testing.

Parents, teachers and community members were overjoyed; headlines ecstatically proclaimed new guidelines under ESSA meant less time spent on standardized testing in schools.

Chinn and her administrator debate if it is better to cover less material, but truly master it, or teach everything that will be covered on the end - of - year standardized tests, knowing the pace would be too fast for most students to grasp the concepts.

And with these students less distracted and more engaged in school, they do better on their academics; they average 11 percentile points higher on standardized test scores than do students without SEL training.

Lack of proficiency in reading and writing in social studies is exacerbated by the fact that schools are spending far less time on social studies instruction in the face of increasing pressure to improve standardized test scores in reading and mathematics (Manzo, 2005).