Sentences with phrase «more than standardized test»

The new formula aims to focus on more than standardized test scores, with 60 percent of student progress measured by academics and 40 percent measured by «social - emotional and culture - climate» factors, such as suspension and expulsion rates and student and parent surveys.

Pryor's tenure has been dedicated to a preoccupation with turning our schools into little more than standardized testing factories.

Not exact matches

We've partnered with industry leaders and certified instructors to create mobile test prep apps for more than 20 different fields of study, from standardized tests to highly - specialized certifications.»

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

From 1960 to 1988 standardized test scores fell significantly, teenage suicide and homicide rates more than doubled and obesity increased by 50 percent.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Beyond Standardized Tests — Teaching Empathy More than ever children need skills in how to work with changing teams of collaborators and how to seek solutions rooted in the needs of others.

More students in Glen Ellyn District 89 passed a standardized test this year than last year, data released by the district this month shows.

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

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.

Two new Quinnipiac University polls show that New York voters trust the teachers» unions more than Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve education in the state, and two thirds of New York State voters say the Common Core aligned standardized tests are not an accurate way to measure how well students are learning.

In October, for example, after more than 80 % of the parents voted to have their kids not take the exams, Castle Bridge Elementary School canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests.

New scrutiny (and more than a little scorn) was placed on the state's standardized tests after the now - infamous pineapple question made its way onto an English exam.

Schools in the city's Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city's schools, but that doesn't mean they're all safe from the chopping block, the mayor said.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

It did, however, note that by its calculations, New York spends more per student than any other state in the country, even as performance on standardized testing continues to lag.

Magee says teachers will be working in the next two years to make sure adopting the Common Core becomes more than just prepping students for standardized tests.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

More than half of school districts on Long Island now have at least some board members emphatically against Common Core - aligned standardized tests and how they are weighted in teacher evaluations.

My concern derives from more than a bad day with a standardized test.

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.

Invivoscribe standardized assays are the industry leading solutions for clonality testing, used in more than 650 laboratories in 65 countries.

If we want to change education in the U.S. — more profoundly than we can by reforming curricula or standardized tests or teacher - certification policies — we have to believe, too.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

They were hard — much more cognitively demanding than anything students had encountered on standardized tests since the inception of No Child Left Behind.

• An earlier study in Illinois found that students exposed to more authentic intellectual work saw greater gains on the standardized tests than those not exposed to this content.

«With more than 50 years of experience in assessment..., we felt ourselves to be the logical choice to spearhead a campaign against academic dishonesty — cheating that goes beyond standardized tests,» said Kevin Gonzales of ETS told Education World.

In fact, he shows that student non-response on surveys in grades 7 - 9 is more strongly predictive of graduating high school and completing a bachelors degree than math and science standardized test results.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

The board — which oversees the country's largest standardized - testing programs, including the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associatTests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associatTests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associattests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associations.

This also invites the students to consider the fact that on a standardized test all questions are equal, with no single question having more value than the others.

Let's aim higher than what a standardized test might ask of our students, ensuring that they're not only ready for the test, but more than ready for college, career and life!

AVID students outperformed their classmates on various standardized tests and attended school more often than their classmates.

,» published by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, students whose teachers routinely gave «authentic intellectual assignments» increased their scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (a widely used standardized test) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationaTest of Basic Skills (a widely used standardized test) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationatest) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationally.

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) are creating computer - adaptive exams that will offer customized questions based on student responses, which will measure what students do and do not know more efficiently and accurately than standardized tests have in the past.

But critics also say that the No Child Left Behind focus on testing has narrowed and standardized curricula, and discouraged teachers from experimenting with lesson plans that do more than get kids past a test.

In Switzerland, policies vary from one locality to the next, and admissions tend to be more personalized through teacher recommendations than through standardized tests.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

Needless to say, they include a vastly more rigorous curriculum, higher expectations for all students, a knowledge - based rather than a methods - based emphasis in teacher education, and a more thoughtful system of assessment rather than the relatively mindless fill - in - the - blank approach of so many conventional standardized tests.

Opt - out leaders believe they are protecting all children from a measurement system that does more harm than good, and they have said they will opt in to standardized tests when the state rectifies the problems.

This research does not show that private or charter schools are always more effective than district schools in raising student performance on standardized tests — the indicator that is often put forth as a measure of a school's success.

In fact, he told the Hechinger Report and U.S. News & World Report that most of the 70 OECD nations give their students more standardized tests than we do in the United States.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

Although more than half the students who spend an extra year in the same grade and attend summer school improve their scores on standardized tests, the remaining students held back continue to struggle.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.