Sentences with phrase «mostly on student test scores»

While the state is moving toward a more robust and comprehensive accountability system instead of relying mostly on student test scores, CORE says its breakdown uses more parameters to measure a school's performance.

Immediately following Act 10, the governor pursued a statewide teacher evaluation system that would have been based mostly on student test scores.

Not exact matches

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

When she had these same students in eighth grade the next year, where they mostly worked on high - school level material, all of them passed the tenth grade Regents test and fully one - third had perfect scores.

However, schools that focus primarily on raising test scores, implement RTI as a series of discrete actions rather than an on - going process, implement RTI mostly to comply with the law, or see student failure as a failure in learning will struggle to reap the benefits of RTI.

On the wall of the room I saw some student work displayed, mostly recent tests, and saw that the tests making the wall had scores in the low 80s.

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

As a group, these mostly Hispanic students have long scored significantly lower than their white peers on standardized tests like the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation's report card.