Sentences with phrase «much about test scores»

Don't understand much about test scores?

In my experience, it is not unusual for teachers to 1) not really know that much about the test scores they are attempting to explain, and 2) be civil toward me yet completely discount most of the questions I ask and the concerns I raise.

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And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

A percentage score achieved in a properly validated test makes for much clearer thinking about personal characteristics than terms such as «satisfactory», «sufficient», or «high - flyer».

Their thoughts about their daughters» maths ability were much more tied to actual maths achievements, such as test scores.

Even poorly educated parents may have much more information about quality than analysts and regulators sitting in their offices looking at spreadsheets of test scores.

Nor did the public's evaluation of American schools change much between 2007 and 2009, despite the media drumbeat of negative information about dropout rates and test scores.

One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

Educating people who have spent years behind bars is just as much about compassion and humanity as it is about effective study habits and good test scores, say their counselors and teachers.

This component makes up 50 and 75 percent of the overall evaluation scores in the districts we studied, and much less is known about observation - based measures of teacher performance than about value - added measures based on test scores.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

A detailed analysis means that an app will be storing all the data about you, such as how much of your syllabus is completed, what topics you have searched, how many online tests you have taken and what your scores are in those, or how was your ranking among all.

While the scores from good standardized tests tell us something about a student, they hardly tell us everything about that student, much less that student's school.

Consequently, test scores often indicate much more about demography than about schools.

-- those kinds of conversations around data can lead to much more productive work than the ones that are focused on «[let's use] data to think about how we're going to improve test scores».

For years, student test scores drove much of the conversation about school quality and student learning.

She cautioned, however, about putting too much stock in one year of test scores and noted that the Highline School District is also doing impressive work in meeting kids where they are academically.

There was — and will continue to be — much to argue about, including test scores, graduation rates, and class sizes (see Diane Ravitch and / or Sol Stern at «related posts» below), but there is no doubt that Klein and Bloomberg have introduced some much needed common sense, business management practices, accountability, and, yes, a laser - like focus on student achievement, to a system that had become unmanageable and unproductive.

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

The guidelines will include recommendations for how much weight to give test scores; he has said in the past that it should count for about 30 %.

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

Diane writes again: «Much has happened since Gordon, Kane, and Staiger speculated about how to identify effective teachers by performance measures such as student test scores.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

He's instructed his staff to prepare materials for families telling them not to put much credence into the Florida Standards Assessments scores and school grades this year, particularly in light of a recent validity study that raised many questions about the test's reliability.

Teachers in states that mandate the use of high - stakes test scores for teacher evaluations reported: 1) More negative feelings about testing 2) Much lower job satisfaction, and 3) Much higher percentage thought of leaving the profession due to testing.

The President always talks about too much testing, but he endorses performance pay based on test scores.

Never before in the history of education and public schools is there so much data flying around about students and test scores and even behavior.

The Bay State Banner reports on results of the new MCAS tests, and BTU President Jessica Tang... Read more about So Much More to Student Learning: Low Scores on New MCAS tests, and BTU President Jessica Tang... Read more about So Much More to Student Learning: Low Scores on New MCAS TestsTests

Windham Federation of Teachers President Randall Prose said: «We're concerned about much more than test scores, but these latest numbers provide an urgent opportunity to ask some tough questions.

Consequently, test scores often tell us much more about demography than about schools.

«I wouldn't have put so much time into this if I was a racist and a segregationist,» Murphy said, adding that she is concerned about the school's slipping test scores and the fact that many of the poor children live too far from the school to participate in after - school activities and summer programs.

Much of the discussion about the use of student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers has centered on how unfair the «value - added» method is to teachers because it is unreliable and can — and does — label effective teachers as ineffective too often.

Test scores can tell you some things about what the students need, but they don't give you much useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of your teachers and other staff you might seek to support.

I have way too much first hand knowledge about the use of accommodations as a technique to raise test scores.

Besides a score, which gives quantitative data about how much of the material tested a students has mastered, information about student misconceptions can be determined by analyzing which distractors they chose and why.

But different value - added models make different assumptions about how much variation in test scores should be attributed to teachers.

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

The new online homepage will be a place where parents can search for all kinds of information about their schools, such as how often kids and teachers come to school, how fast schools are getting their English learners ready to learn at grade level, how test scores are improving, how long students with special needs are receiving extra help, how much money is sent to underperforming schools, and where early education is available.

The newspaper analyzed seven years of student test scores in English and math to determine how much students» performance improved under about 6,000 third - through fifth - grade teachers.

Teachers and administrators don't have to worry as much about student test scores as their public school counterparts do, because DoDEA is exempt from No Child Left Behind.

No matter how much you groan and moan until enough controversy is raised about the need for this test and it is discontinued, it is the score that will tell your college admissions officers where you fit within the requirements for entrance into their schools.

Usually when I write a review I'll just add the value for money in the score bar at the bottom and not mention much about it other than in a summary, this games pricing has been set up differently to what we usually see, for example you can buy the full game for about # 30 OR if you're an online multiplayer fanatic and only want to play that part of the game you can buy the Multiplayer version for # 20, now if you've bought the multiplayer and fancy expanding to the full game it will cost you # 15 for the single player being # 5 over the original price, most will think that this is fair, you can get the multiplayer element cheaper and test it out, if you like it you can then grab the campaign, well, this is where it gets dark.

We tend to weight our own experiences using a device much higher than benchmark scores, but for those interested, in the Quadrant benchmark test, the One X performed incredibly well, scoring an average of about 5,000, which is the highest score we've seen other than the One S, which posted near identical results.

Geekbench 4 scores that just hit the web confirm as much — Google's Pixels score a 1580 on the single - core test and about 4100 on the multi-core test, while Apple's latest iPhones score 3430 and about 5600.

Although scores of parenting programs for young children have been and are currently being used in communities throughout North America, in only a relatively few cases has their long - term efficacy been tested using comparison groups, much less with a randomized control trial (RCT).17, 18 Thus, drawing firm conclusions about their effectiveness in improving young children's social and emotional outcomes is limited to a few investigators who have used more rigorous methods.