Sentences with phrase «less student testing»

Michigan's plan includes less student testing, focuses on student academic growth and gives schools more flexibility.

Many Democrats, for example, are currying favor with union interests by insisting on less student testing and more federal funding.

Not exact matches

But after everything they've been through, Stoneman Douglas students say waiving the testing requirement would give them one less thing to worry about.

As my good friend Peter Lawler would say,» studies show» that students who believe in a «harsh, punitive, vengeful, and punishing» God are less likely to cheat on a test than are non-believers or students who believe in a «loving, caring, and forgiving» God....

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

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

«We're talking about doing something in the budget so the testing that take place in April will be less traumatic for the students,» Silver said.

Afterward, Elia, speaking to reporters, said there is a real threat that the state could lose federal funds if less than 95 percent of students take the tests in April.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

Then the tests are moved to an earlier date in April (even less time to teach) because this private company who we're paying big bucks to can't get the job done in time to evaluate the teachers and have the student information so we can properly place them.

«Moreover, for any student, the more unnecessary complexity added to a test question, the less accessible the question is likely to be.»

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.

That can involve pulling the student - athlete out of school or providing a longer testing time or less reading and homework.

T - ray test Clough, an R.P.I. doctoral student in electrical, computer and systems engineering who hopes to complete his PhD within a year, has demonstrated a cost - effective technique for using sound waves to boost the effective distance of terahertz spectroscopy from less than a meter to several meters.

The researchers devised an academic game to test the students» competitiveness and found that the girls, on average, are significantly less competitive than the boys.

«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.

Compared to White students, Latino students were 45 percent less likely to take the test, Black students were 35 percent less likely, and Asian students were 32 percent more likely.

He makes a convincing case for incorporating valuable but less easily measured attributes into our view of intelligence, such as the persistence that can propel driven students to higher test scores than their less committed peers and the creativity demonstrated by individuals more in tune with intuition than intellect.

Yet another study found that students who exercise perform better on tests than their less athletic peers.

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

If studies show a definite decrease in comprehension when people read e-texts, then we are doing a disservice to our students, teachers and schools by imposing less beneficial testing on them.

Asking students to recall these values nurtures a broader sense of self and makes individual threats, such as a math test, seem less daunting, says Stanford psychologist Greg Walton.

They are experimenters and tinkerers by nature and the more you can engage students in that and less checking off things that are going to be tested, the better.

Likewise, a study at a Ohio high school revealed that students who received handouts with less - legible type performed better on tests than the students who were given more readable materials.

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

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

One girl ~ whenever receiving anything less than a 90 percent on her tests ~ would crawl up under her desk in a ball and cry for an hour until I could coax her out (boy ~ I was happy to get a C in geometrynot the best student when I reached high school).

Gary Natriello and Aaron Pallas, of Columbia's Teachers College, show that under high - stakes testing policies in New York, Texas, and Minnesota poor and minority students will be less likely to receive a high school diploma.

New analyses of opt - out movement offer fresh perspectives Although less likely to be economically disadvantaged, opt - out students tended to be lower - achieving than test takers in New York State last year

Research suggests that the whole - class weekly spelling test is much less effective than an approach in which different students have different sets of words depending on their stage of spelling development, and emphasis is placed on analyzing and using the words rather than taking a test on them (see Palmer & Invernizzi, 2015 for a review).

At the same time, retention is ineffective: students who are retained ultimately learn less than students with similar test scores who are promoted.

To pay companies like K12 more or less depending on how their students perform on state tests or depending on their graduation rates?

The extent to which a school is above or below that line indicates whether the average test - score improvement among its students has been greater or less than would be predicted based on their fluid cognitive skills.

Adding a student test score made blacks less likely to be identified; Hispanics and Asians remained less likely to be identified as well.

Overall, public says teacher salaries and tenure should be based heavily on student test performance; public has less confidence in teachers than previously reported

Worse, they can result in unintended responses by schools, such as teaching only what is to be assessed and withholding less able students from testing.

In sum, Krueger and Zhu take three methodological steps to generate results that are not statistically significant: 1) changing the definition of the group to be studied, 2) adding students without baseline test scores, and 3) ignoring the available information on baseline test scores, even though this yields less precise results.

Although less likely to be economically disadvantaged, opt - out students tended to be lower - achieving than test takers in New York State last year

Try this thought experiment with another observed practice to illustrate my point about how the results are being mis - reported... The correlation between student observations that «My teacher seems to know if something is bothering me» and value added was.153, which was less than the.195 correlation for «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for [the state test].»

While the No Child Left Behind Act has a detailed formula for bringing students to proficiency on state reading and mathematics tests by the 2013 - 14 school year, it's much less precise on states» goals for English - language learners.

But students in Greece decline much more rapidly across the test, which means that those students are less willing to exert consistent effort.

Even if these students make incredible gains in their sixth -, seventh -, and eighth - grade years, they still won't be at grade level, much less «proficient,» when they sit for the state test.

As June Kronholz reported in Education Next, studies have long found that disadvantaged students who participate in such activities are less likely to drop out, use tobacco or alcohol, or get pregnant; they are also more likely to score well on tests, enroll in college, and complete college.

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.

The sweet spot for Rosetta Stone Korea is in serving students who are in Grades 1 to 4 because they are young enough that the parents are less focused on how the language learning will prepare students for the suneung, or the College Scholastic Aptitude Test.

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.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

By contrast, negative teacher - student relations seem to undermine students» confidence and lead to greater anxiety: On average across countries, students are about 62 per cent more likely to get very tense when they study, and about 31 per cent more likely to feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.