Sentences with phrase «meet target scores»

Were teachers, we wanted to know, focusing their attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving students in an effort to meet target scores?

Schools participating in the bonus program received awards based on their progress toward meeting target scores.

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The difference between a target centre forward and a striker is that «A target man waits for the ball to be put at his foot or his head for him to score and most times a centre forward holds on to the ball with his back to goal waiting for runners to run in to receive a pass from him so he can position or free himself to score but a STRIKER is a player who runs to meet the ball.

If the target was to parody the crazy - forwarded - email - meets - Fox News view of the Democratic - nominee - to - be, they scored a very difficult headshot.

Organizing all the forest friends they have met along the way, Boog and Elliot form an oddball army that particularly targets Shaw (Gary Sinise), a trigger - happy brute with whom they have a personal score in need of settling.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

In addition to our main experiment testing the ECO-C Intervention's effects on our target group of high - achieving, low - income students, we also used the same approach to study its effects on students who meet the same test - score criteria but who have estimated family income above the bottom one - third or attended a feeder high school.

The natural question is, how will that subgroup of students meet the performance targets when students who score at proficient levels are quickly taken from the group?

For several days in early January, Michaelis and support staff members met with classroom teachers in grades three to six charged with identifying students in different subgroups (Hispanic, African American, English language learners, special education) at levels 1 and 2 with the best chance of scoring at a higher level on the math, reading, or writing section of the CMTs, if they received intensive, targeted remediation.

A number of countries have used test scores to allocate financial rewards for school improvement, performance pay for teachers, and to identify and intervene in schools that fail to meet annual improvement targets.

CORE would also roll back the clock on the percentage of students who must score at proficient or better for a school to meet the annual growth target to the 2010 - 11 level of 67 percent, rather than the current rate of 90 percent, giving schools time to implement the new system and see some results.

Because of the improvement in CST scores, Locke met its API targets in 2009, against long odds for low performing schools in Los Angeles County....

First - year scores on the new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards showed that 34 percent of California's students met achievement targets in math, and 44 percent met achievement targets in English language arts.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

That is, the proportion of a school's students scoring above a state - determined proficiency threshold in math and English language arts, and whether this proportion met state targets.

Teachers must fight, politically and legally, against evaluations where the administrators who set policies unilaterally determine whether it was the fault of those policies or the individual teacher for not meeting test score growth targets.

Principal fellows must also demonstrate the ability to meet budgeted target enrollment goals and consistently score well on CSUSA staff / parent survey results.

The law requires that targets for percentages of students scoring above that mark, known as proficiency rates, rise annually until meeting about 100 percent proficiency in 2014.

Schools across D.C. struggled to meet those targets for physical education, but those that provided about 90 minutes each week saw higher standardized math scores, according to the report.

Once they meet a target, they score 3.

To get the score, the number of students who pass the test are counted, and then the number of students who met their expected growth targets are counted.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

If a school does not meet or exceed its growth targets and is ranked in the lower tiers of the state's base API scores, it may be identified for participation in state intervention programs, and also risk losing federal funds.

In the school year before AYD was implemented, scaled scores for those students had increased by only 1 point on the Measures of Adequate Progress (MAP) test, and just 20 % met district growth targets.

Leadership High School in San Francisco (with a 2013 API score is 646) failed to meet school - wide or subgroup API growth targets and earned statewide and similar school rankings in the lowest two deciles in each of the last three years.

Accountability ratings are determined by assessing whether a school or charter operator meets or exceeds target index scores.

Superintendent Beverly Hall promised to fire principals who failed to meet test - score targets, and principals passed that pressure on to teachers, a state investigative report said.

Looking at California's Immediate Intervention Underperforming Schools Program, the author points out that only 83 of the 430 schools involved met their students» test score growth targets for two consecutive years.

In a meeting of the assembly's Children, Young People and Education Committee on Wednesday, the education secretary was asked by Plaid Cymru education spokesman Llyr Gruffydd whether the Welsh Government still retained the 500 score target.

It earned a C from the state based on student test scores in 2015, with an overall proficiency rate of 65 percent, and failed to meet state targets for student growth.

Along with their other sins, value - added evaluations would mean collective punishment of some teachers merely for teaching in schools and classes where it is harder to meet dubious test score growth targets.

Although that score remains 43 points below the state median, Los Angeles educators said they were very pleased that 90 % of their elementary campuses met their state targets this year, up from 87 % last year.

However, two students whom we name Rafael and Yrina, met their district's reclassification criteria, reached the target score of 350 and were reclassified as fluent English proficient.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

That is, more precisely and as indicated in the actual study, SLOs were «not significantly correlated with a teacher's value - added student test scores;» hence, «a teacher is no more likely to meet his or her SLO targets if [his / her] students have higher levels of achievement [over time].»

Euro NCAP in particular commends these hybrid vehicles for their impressive pedestrian scores that not only fulfil Euro NCAP's current five star requirements, but already meet the organisation's challenging 2012 targets.

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