Sentences with phrase «means testing student»

In most state tests, «difficult» means testing student achievement in conventional academic subjects at an earlier age, such as algebra in grade 8.

Not exact matches

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

«This certification means that the student has the skills and knowledge needed to begin a career without additional testing,» said Martina Hilldorfer, culinary arts program co-coordinator and chair of the accreditation process.

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...

The CEP allows districts and schools to serve free meals without paperwork if at least 40 percent of their students are already automatically enrolled for free school meals due to their participation in other means - tested programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Students, for example, can focus on the root of the stress (preparing for the test) and not the self - flagellation around what the stress might mean («I'm not smart enough»).

That might mean a slower menu roll - out than LAUSD attempted; it might mean more menu - testing and student input; it might mean using Brian Wansink's consumer psychology to encourage better choices; and it most certainly means nutrition education at every possible juncture, from classroom lessons to school gardens to volunteer «food boosters» in the lunch room encouraging experimentation.

Students across the region began taking New York State Regents tests Tuesday and a Buffalo Public Schools teacher is using digital means to help students review for their History Students across the region began taking New York State Regents tests Tuesday and a Buffalo Public Schools teacher is using digital means to help students review for their History students review for their History Regents.

It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

ALBANY — A drive to repeal New York's legal requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on students» state tests scores ignited debate Monday over the question of whether repeal could mean «double testing» for students.

That would mean tens of thousands of students will continue to be tested against standards that don't tell them or their families whether they are prepared for college.

In this case, failing means student test scores are in the bottom 5 percent, test scores are getting worse instead of better, or the schools» graduation rates are below 60 percent for three consecutive years.

In addition, the Student's t test was used to compare mean change of three indices from baseline in both treatment groups.

The team also tested the students» understanding of genetics and found that the genetics - first effect either increased genetics understanding as well or made no difference, meaning that teaching genetics first doesn't harm students» appreciation of this subject.

Data are shown as mean ± s.d. Statistics were performed using Student's t - test.

Data are shown as mean ± s.d. Statistics were performed using Student's t - test (a), one - way ANOVA (b) and Mann — Whitney U test (d, f).

Geometric mean titers for those given a nonadjuvanted or alum adjuvanted vaccine were not different for the double - inactivated whole virus vaccine (DIV), and the VLP vaccine, (p > 0.05, student's t - test), but were different for the S protein vaccine (SV)(p = 0.001, student's t test).

EVERETT, Wash. — For 13 months, Engineering Club students at Washington State University Everett have spent countless hours designing, building, testing and rebuilding a Mars rover meant to be able to work alongside human explorers on the surface of the Red Planet.

SDs between the mean vectors were found with Hotelling's T2 test for vector analysis, which is a multivariate extension of Student's test for unpaired data in comparisons of mean vectors from 2 groups.

a, b: Because A × P was significant, means were then compared using an unpaired Student's t test; values with the same letter are not different, P ≤ 0.05.

a, b: Because N × P was significant (case of liver), means were then compared using an unpaired Student's t test; values are means ± sem, n = 16; values with the same letter are not different, P ≤ 0.05.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

However, he admitted that there are challenges to teaching vocabulary such as teachers not having the time to sit one on one with a student to review words and meanings, difficulty testing vocabulary, and determining what words to teach.

In my view, these descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming.

Of course, it's possible that both of these claims are true, but this raises a question: do means - tested choice programs serve only the most advantaged among the disadvantaged, or do they disproportionately attract disadvantaged students even among the eligible populations?

Australian Parents Council Executive Director, Ian Dalton, told Education Matters parents were pleased with the move to online NAPLAN testing as it will provide the capacity for students to be tested according to their level of ability and faster availability of results means that remedial programs can be put into place more quickly.

Like my students, I was never taught the true meaning of standardized tests.

«Using student test scores to sanction teachers and schools makes it more likely they will adjust their behaviour to protect themselves, which may mean leaving the weakest learners behind,» explains Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report.

Third, students in the program also may have benefited from having more mixed - income peers than is typical in most public prekindergarten programs, which are means tested and therefore tend to include mostly low - income students.

Not doing so means that struggling students are knowingly left behind to fail, and advanced students are left adrift with few opportunities for testing their true potential.

By good I mean that they score comparatively well on state tests, have a goodly number of students who receive passing scores on Advanced Placement tests, send a majority of graduates off to college, and enjoy the support of their respective communities.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

This means that all Year 1 students may soon be tested on their reading and maths two years before sitting the NAPLAN test.

Providing a more honest assessment of student performance was one of the goals of the Common Core initiative and the new tests created by states that are meant to align to the new, higher standards.

Don't lead students to believe that contributing to curriculum decisions means that they will have sole power over every assignment, test, and project.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

That inevitably means more testing — and real consequences linked to student performance.

This document can be used as a unit test to close the Regular Verb Unit and is meant for FSL students.

However, it would be a waste not to use the transition year to tell students, teachers and parents where they stand relative to the new standards, and that means giving all students the opportunity to participate in the test, scoring all their tests and providing them with a score.

This is not to dispute the value of serious testing, which I support, but testing must be presented to students as a means to an end rather than an end in itself.

One of the most passionately debated topics of 21st Century education surrounds the primary tenet of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: All students, and that means 100 percent of enrolled students, will test at or above proficiency levels by the 2013 - 2014 school year.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

But students in Greece decline much more rapidly across the test, which means that those students are less willing to exert consistent effort.

Although practice tests and classroom drills have raised the pass rate for the reading section of the TAAS in high schools, few students are able to use those same skills to complete actual reading assignments outside of class, to make meaning of literature, or to connect reading assignments to other parts of the course such as discussion and writing.

In fact, Miller v. Skumanick (eventually Miller v. Mitchell in the appeals court) got even more interesting because the prosecutor told the dozen students caught up in the affair, that he would not prosecute them if they accepted school suspension, submitted to drug tests, wrote an essay about their infractions, and attended a five - week re-education program in which they would admit that what they did was wrong and — for the girls — had learned what it meant to be a girl in today's society.

«These descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming,» Wolf says.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

Then there are the tests and examinations that are meant to be a robust, objective measure of students» and schools» performance.

With respect to students and test scores, reversion to the mean suggests that students with scores in the upper or lower tail of the test - score distribution are likely to perform closer to the average when tested more than once.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.