Sentences with phrase «lower standardized test»

Less qualified teachers, large learning gaps, and lower standardized test scores all translate into one thing — a lower school rating.

Canine and feline roundworms are common locally and have human health implications, including causing liver and eye infections in people (especially children) and have been recently linked with lower standardized test scores in people.

Mental health issues such as attention difficulties, delinquency, and substance use are associated with lower academic achievement and attainment.77 Likewise, experiencing trauma is associated with lower standardized test scores and an increased risk of being diagnosed with a learning disability or behavioral disorder.78 When children experience trauma, it not only affects their own learning but also that of their classmates.

Mental health issues such as attention difficulties, delinquency, and substance misuse are associated with lower academic achievement and attainment.91 Likewise, trauma is associated with lower standardized test scores and an increased risk of being diagnosed with a learning disability or behavioral disorder.92 While mental health and traumatic events can be devastating to individual academic achievement, research indicates that traumatic events also affect the entire class.

We know that the factors that lead to lower standardized test scores are poverty, language barriers and lack of parent or guardian involvement.

Schools with lower standardized test scores had higher rates of teacher exits, meaning that these schools were disproportionately impacted.

As any trained researcher would recognize, the relationship between a lack of collective bargaining and lower standardized test results is not necessarily causal.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Low standardized test scores are a reflection of being uninspired, not unknowledgeable.

Students designated as English language learners (ELL) tend to go to public schools that have low standardized test scores.

Our country has serious economic, social and environmental issues and yet we continue to dither around with these very low standardized tests.

Because of the high stakes of the SBAC tests, English teachers, especially in schools with a history of low standardized test scores,, prepare students for the test by adhering to the pedagogy prescribed by the Common Core.

In addition, the National Association for College Admissions Counseling found that students with elevated high school GPAs and low standardized test scores generally do well in colleges.

The school has the lowest standardized test scores in Adelanto, with fewer than half the students proficient in math and English.

Not exact matches

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

What's more, a study conducted by the University of Virginia showed that kids who attend a school with a severe climate of bullying often have lower scores on standardized tests.

«Children who have been in extended daycare and preschool programs have: poorer work habits, inferior peer relationships, substandard emotional health, lower grades and standardized test scores, and are more difficult to discipline.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

In fact, studies have shown that school - age children who were fed low - iron formula as infants tend not to do as well on standardized developmental tests as children who received iron - fortified formula.

I don't believe in fast food, and was intrigued when I read a study that suggested that the more often kids eat the junk, the lower they score on standardized tests.

The FDA maintains that studies using standardized toxicity tests have shown BPA to be safe at the current low levels of human exposure.

Although Rise schools made improvement on a number of metrics, the schools are still posting low proficiency on standardized tests.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

The lower - class kids do better on standardized tests and come up close to the middle - class kids, and all the kids do better on things like intellectual self - confidence, creativity, problem - solving, teamwork, collaboration, tolerance, empathy.

Cuomo maintains that too many teachers are getting great evaluations despite students scoring low on standardized tests.

The researchers sought to develop a standardized approach to testing vision at low light levels.

There's a great study of 2 million Danish standardized tests that revealed that students who'd been randomly assigned to take standardized tests in the afternoon scored significantly lower than those randomly assigned to take them in the morning.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

The dinner before each study day was standardized for quantity and quality of food items (low - fiber and HGI carbohydrate sources) for all the subjects and before each test.

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

Given the concerns raised by the Klein study regarding the validity of the TAAS exams in Texas, I decided to use the same analytical technique as Klein: comparing results on the FCAT with results on low - stakes standardized tests given at around the same time and in the same grade.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Teaching students mindfulness can help them counteract the negative emotions and low self - esteem associated with a culture of standardized testing.

They can pass the standardized tests with their eyes closed, so we tell high - ability kids that their job is to sit still and stay quiet while the teacher focuses on low - achievers.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.

Our findings from Florida suggest that the use of standardized testing policies to end social promotion can help low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

Moreover, graduation rates in the district are strikingly low, as is student performance on standardized tests.

As their responses to other questions about testing might indicate, teachers hold standardized tests in the lowest regard.

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

Student standardized test scores are among the lowest in Michigan.

Both GPA and standardized - test - score averages are lower for black students than for white students.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.