Sentences with phrase «mean student scores on standardized tests»

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Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

When they speak of «effective teachers,» what they mean is teachers whose students produce higher scores on standardized tests every year, not teachers who inspire their students to love learning.

To account for the limitations of the tests, Louisiana allows an exception if students score between one and a half and two standard deviations above the mean on three separate tests: the IQ test and the standardized math and English exams.

To be labeled gifted in Louisiana, by and large, students must score at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized reading and math test chosen by the district or on an intelligence test (two standard deviations above the mean translates to a score of 130 on the IQ test and is near the 98th percentile).

This means that similar students (i.e. students that score similarly on state standardized tests) have been making more progress (score better the next year than students with similar scores in the past) in Denver than Boulder across all student groups.

Building on research presented during the Kinder Institute's October KIForum, Reardon's working paper uses a measure of educational opportunity meant to track student growth from grades three through eight utilizing standardized test scores for roughly 45 million students in more than 11,000 school districts across the country.

Within the U.S., how school performance is measured is with standardized test scores meant to indicate student achievement, so whether or not a school is considered to be successful or failing at educating students is based on how students at that school score.

If the announcement is as impressive as suggested, it would mean that the leadership of Connecticut's teacher unions have finally moved 180 degrees from the position they held on January 25, 2012 when the CEA and AFT joined with the other members of Governor Malloy's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to approve the so - called «teacher evaluation framework» that inappropriately and unfairly mandates that student's standardized test scores be a major factor in the teacher evaluation process.

But when the researchers compared California schools districts, based on their English learners» standardized test scores and mastery of English proficiency, and then followed up with site visits and interviews with administrators, they discovered that many of the most successful districts viewed the Common Core as a means to higher achievement for these students, and used strategies in line with its goals to achieve their good results.

After all — if accountability to a classroom teacher means they are at risk of losing their job if students perform poorly on standardized tests — then what is the reason scores of library media specialists are losing their jobs across the country?