Sentences with phrase «more test preparation»

With increased requirements for federal and state testing, schools are integrating more and more test preparation into their schedules.

But it saddens me when I hear about schools abandoning the arts and social studies for more test preparation.

They can let me know if students need more test preparation so that the standardized isn't unfamiliar or intimidating as well as knowing if students have learning the content or skill.

in favor of more test preparation time.

They have already had a friendly in Russia, where they beat Argentina, and they also managed to persuade CAF to postpone their 2019 African Nations Cup qualifier in the Seychelles in March so that they can get themselves some more testing preparation before the World Cup finals.

A prospective growth area is the use of the Beyond High School library to offer more testing preparation for students with post-secondary goals ranging from competitive colleges to vocational programs and the military.

Not exact matches

MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace has delayed delivery of its first new CSeries commercial aircraft by several months and potentially more than a year, saying it needs more time for testing and preparation.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Program focuses on test preparation, helping with homework, advocacy, parent leadership and more.

This happens extensively with ability testing in the US, and the results can be seen to have more to do with preparation and practice than actual ability.

Test preparations took more than a year.

Update, November 11, 2014, 9:30 p.m. EST: Rosetta and Philae have passed through more go - no - go tests in preparation for the comet landing.

However, the results of an examination of the SEs (20 compared with 5) and the number of subjects tested (5 compared with 8) suggest that the latest value for carrots is more reliable, although differences in nutrient content and preparation methods contributed somewhat to this variation.

Occasionally, Altman tested himself by adhering to a genre closely without detonating it, embracing convention as a way of reverse engineering his usually «free» style, which, like jazz or improvisational comedy, requires more preparation and structure than is generally understood.

The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

The Seattle Times reported in 2014 that more than 18 percent of time in U.S. classrooms was devoted to test preparation.

The vast majority of students, even those in elementary school, claimed that rigorous study habits and test preparation impinged on their ability to get more than seven hours of sleep each night.

I urge universities to join together to negotiate with the College Board for a more appropriate test or to look to an alternative test that adequately gauges mathematics preparation.

Of course, test preparation can range from teaching the content likely to be tested all the way to teaching explicit test - taking strategies (e.g., write longer essays because those get you more points).

Koretz uses this precept to frame the discussion of test - based accountability efforts as well as more in - depth discussion in later chapters about some of the more pernicious corruptions of test - based accountability: artificial test - score inflation, undesirable types of test preparation, and outright cheating.

Survey items focusing on test preparation activities were much more weakly related to student achievement gains than items focusing on instructional quality.

I explain that 25 years of research has shown that score inflation is common, that it is often very large, and that the limited research on its distribution suggests that both inflation and bad test preparation affect disadvantaged students more than others.

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

«The report finds that classrooms have become even more focused on exam and test preparation, especially in the subjects that are most heavily weighed in the Progress 8 basket.

The teacher suggests that, instead of just reading the textbook the night before the exam, the students will spend class time brainstorming strategies for more effective test preparation.

But whether or not you're a supporter of high - stakes testing, the fact remains that for now, these assessments exist; so perhaps the more important inquiry to pursue is how do teachers balance preparation for...

Make sure your young test - taker knows that the more and better preparation he or she puts in, the better his or her resulting test grade is going to be.

In addition to reassuring your kid that test anxiety is something that everybody experiences, it's important to link preparation and results in your kid's mind, so that the testing does what it really should do — make your kid a more industrious student!

But we also know that some schools test far more than this, and that too many schools devote excessive time to narrow test - preparation activities in an attempt to avoid federally mandated accountability sanctions.

The boot camp approach to test preparation is becoming more popular as educators strive to make reviewing material more interesting and even fun.

Can outcomes like student test performance reliably identify more or less effective teacher - preparation programs?

When judging school quality, the public gives much more weight to students» job preparation and interpersonal development than to their standardized test scores, the poll shows.

But in some cases, that federal requirement piled onto state and local testing rules, resulting in many more hours of preparation and test taking than No Child Left Behind mandated.

... $ 10.00 Analyzes research proving that good test preparation programs raise average scores by 100 points or more.

By 1999 almost two - thirds of all teachers in the 3rd and 8th grades reported spending more than 20 hours a year on test preparation.

When test scores are «inflated» - by, say, cheating or intense preparation that is geared to a specific exam - observed achievement gains are misleading because they do not reflect a more general mastery of the subject.

Did they focus more on test preparation, or did they change how they taught or what they taught so that students learned more?

Project - based learning is becoming more valuable than test preparation.

If teachers perceive a new practice as supporting test - preparation goals, such as teaching to the test, they are more likely to adopt the new practice.

If the practice does not seem to support testing, teachers may not implement the new practice or will adapt it to be more aligned with test preparation goals.

We found that becoming «Smarter Balanced Ready» is about more than test preparation.

It became apparent to observers that private schools, without so much attention to preparation for high - stakes testing, were able to permit students to put more time into the projects during school hours.

They can let me know if students need more preparation so that the test isn't unfamiliar or intimidating, and they can indicate whether students have learned the content or skill.

College Board President David Coleman (who was a lead author of the Common Core standards) stated that the test will be «more focused and useful, more clear and open than ever before,» and that the College Board will expand access by offering new test - preparation tutorials for free online.

One can't ascertain the strength of an educator based upon results on one stringent standardized test during the teacher preparation process, no more than one can ascertain a strong student by how well he or she does on English Language Arts, Math, or Regents exams.

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High stakes attached to them have led schools to not engage in more challenging and engaging curriculum but to limit school experiences to those that focus on test preparation.

Editor's Note: This story was updated to indicate that comparing college readiness rates based on the previous Early Assessment Program with those based on the current EAP is misleading because only students who were more advanced in math preparation took the earlier test.

«During the forums, it soon became amply clear that IDEA's «direct teaching» curriculum consisted of little more than constant preparation for standardized tests with the students endlessly parroting answers to questions anticipated to be on the state's Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).