Sentences with phrase «more standardized language»

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Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

Develop streamlined IRB and clinical trials agreements with standardized language for digital protocols to enable more efficient delivery of information and services to cooperating agents / entities and regulatory bodies.

What isn't represented in that statistic, says doctoral student Maria Martiniello, is that — for English - language learners — success on the math section of a standardized test may have little to do with numbers and more to do with words.

The state now knows how much federal funding it stands to lose by declining to give state standardized tests in math and English language arts next spring to all students: at least $ 15 million — and potentially tens of millions of dollars more.

But no matter the statutory language, in practice, the question of how much standardized testing is too much can become even more complex.

California also clashed with federal officials last year when it discontinued the standardized tests in math and English language arts students have been taking for more than a decade.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the State Board of Education are using multiple cues to send a uniform message: Parents shouldn't compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are, they say, more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards.

On standardized tests almost every question is a «word problem» of some sort, which makes language even more important for scoring well on the tests.

The current, high - stakes, standardized testing regiment places more value on three of the CCSS pillars (reading, writing, and language), and it appears to devalue the fourth (speaking & listening).

I would love to hear your thoughts on any other ways in which these artistic programs can be incorporated into more modern, standardized curriculums for language arts and math.

As technology becomes more of a presence in educational settings, teachers are becoming aware that they will need to address the proliferation of computer - based, standardized, «teacher - proof» English language arts curriculum marketed to schools and school districts.

In spring 2014, CORE conducted a pilot test of its SEL measures with approximately 9,000 students and more than 300 teachers from all grade levels.33 The districts found that on average, students» self - reported survey responses on all four competencies were correlated with GPA and standardized test scores in English language arts and mathematics.

Fewer standardized tests and more arts and foreign language.

And, sure enough, E4E's «declaration» includes language endorsing teacher assessments using value added modeling of standardized test scores, a method which is only slightly more reliable than throwing darts randomly at a wall.

So now, the school in which 1 in 4 four students aren't fluent in English, 4 in 10 go home to households where English is not the primary language and more than 1 in 10 have disabilities that require special education services, remains a «low - performing» school when it comes to standardized test scores.

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