And our follow - up conversations with districts revealed a complex situation, in terms of the use of this measure and its implications for equity in
math placement decisions.
It is also worth noting that a majority of districts also rely on parental requests for
math placement decisions (62 %).
Not exact matches
In some schools, for example, teachers used diagnostic and formative assessment data to make
decisions about student
placement in remedial reading or
math programs, or in school - based tutoring programs.
High - performance districts predominately rely on test scores and student
math GPA in their
placement decisions.
Dr Dunne and her colleagues, who presented their findings to the British Educational Research Association's annual conference, examined pupil -
placement decisions in English and
Maths in 44 secondary schools and 124 primaries.