Sentences with phrase «lower standardized test results»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Or it could simply be low motivation, since many students never hear about their standardized test results from previous years?

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

Low performance on the Smarter Balanced standardized tests combined with high levels of chronic absenteeism and suspension rates were the most common factors that resulted in the low CORE scorLow performance on the Smarter Balanced standardized tests combined with high levels of chronic absenteeism and suspension rates were the most common factors that resulted in the low CORE scorlow CORE scores.

And the Aspire Public Schools ranked first in California among large districts with two - thirds or more low - income students, based on 2010 - 11 standardized test results, with 100 percent of graduating seniors accepted to four - year colleges or universities.

Using the Iowa Assessments (Iowa Test; ITBS), a nationally - recognized standardized test by the College of Education of the University of Iowa, our Lower School (Primary and Elementary classrooms) and our Middle School (Intermediate and Middle School classrooms) students» results were outstandTest; ITBS), a nationally - recognized standardized test by the College of Education of the University of Iowa, our Lower School (Primary and Elementary classrooms) and our Middle School (Intermediate and Middle School classrooms) students» results were outstandtest by the College of Education of the University of Iowa, our Lower School (Primary and Elementary classrooms) and our Middle School (Intermediate and Middle School classrooms) students» results were outstanding.

«The harm to California's low - income students of a short gap without a state standardized test score is dwarfed by the life - long effects that millions of low - income and minority students nationwide will experience as a result of the Department's failure to monitor and enforce their right to equitable access to qualified, experienced, and effective teachers.»

«The harm to California's low - income students of a short gap without a state standardized test score is dwarfed by the life - long effects that millions of low - income and minority students nationwide will experience as a result of the Department's failure to monitor and enforce their right... Read More

But all too often, the result is that low - income students never acquire the knowledge they need to do well on standardized reading tests, not to mention in high school and beyond.

The letter grade is based 80 percent on the school's achievement score (which uses various data including student performance on end - of - grade and end - of - course standardized test scores) and 20 percent on students» academic growth (a measure of students» performance in relation to their expected performance based on the prior year's test results), resulting in a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. «Low - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performiLow - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performilow - performing.

Yet a StateImpact Indiana analysis of results from the state's standardized test released Tuesday also show passage rates among charter schools with high percentages of low - income students are slightly worse than passage rates in public schools, as the graph after the jump shows.

Our results suggest that in the absence of immediate incentives, many students put forth low effort on the standardized tests that we study.