Sentences with phrase «mainly on test scores»

We realized that others were telling the story of the school where we teach — and focusing mainly on test scores and demographics (we're a high - poverty school).

To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and other academic achievement data.

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In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

An additional $ 135 million was provided for college scholarships to 11th graders who scored high on the Stanford 9, despite concerns that the Stanford 9 tests mainly basic skills, while college - bound high schoolers are expected to take courses focusing on English literature and algebra.

A few (mainly in New York) rely exclusively on test scores.

The effects of minimum - competency exams on average 8th grade NAEP test scores were positive but small and mainly insignificant.

Rausch noted that certain localities, such as Indianapolis, have had many charter - school leaders of color, but the movement, particularly on the coasts, is mainly the province of white school leaders and organizational heads who tend to hold homogeneous views on test scores, school structure, and «what works.»

Ms. Ravitch shows that claims of improving scores on state tests have actually been produced mainly by ever - lower test score requirements, so low in one instance that many students could get to an acceptable level by random guessing.

A high - poverty, previously low - performing elementary school in Maine shifted its from looking mainly at achievement and test scores to focusing on ways to create motivated, confident, engaged students.

The validation study of the French version of the test (Guédeney and Fermanian, 1998) established a score of 11 points as a cutoff for clinical depression; however, we mainly focused on the continuous scores on the scale in the present study.