Sentences with phrase «much student test»

For instance, you should mention how much student test scores have improved, how many reading levels the class has advanced, or how many students you have helped bring up to a passing grade.

And the district has not yet proposed how much student test scores would count in a teacher's effectiveness score.

«I've heard complaints from many parents and students over the past few years about lost learning time and the impact of too much student testing, especially for 11th - graders, who have some of the heaviest testing burdens with the SBAC, SAT and Advanced Placement exams,» Senator Bye said.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get those students to college and raise their future wages than were the much celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of stressed - out students, slogging through hours of homework and blizzards of standardized tests.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

The School Nutrition Department has found that students were much more inclined to choose new items on the serving line after they've had the opportunity to taste test it.

Chicago teachers don't like the hot new trend of rating teachers by how much their students improve on standardized tests.

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.»

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get their students to college and raise their future wages than were the much - celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

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.

While he still appreciates Canada's work, Tough feels the research indicates that ongoing success requires much more than the cognitive skills that students demonstrate on tests.

Proponents of this approach note that Massachusetts, which has the highest student scores in the nation, leaves to local districts the decision on how much weight to give test scores.

There's continued dissatisfaction over the state's implementation of the new Common Core standards, which parents, students and teachers have complained has led to too much testing.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Paz said the tests can be especially difficult for special education students, who can take twice as much time on a test they take over three days.

We are concerned that the mayor errs too much on the side of testing to measure school and student achievement, but those tests do show that there has been substantial improvement.

But one contested item that won't make too much of a difference for school districts is the rate at which students have chosen to opt out of state standardized tests.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to change the agreement by calling for an increased emphasis on student achievement on tests, much to the dismay of NYSUT.

After years of complaints from teachers, parents and students alike, the Obama administration announced new guidelines toward standardized tests, saying kids spend too much time taking «unnecessary» exams in schools.

Cuomo's task force on academic standards and testing expects to hand in its much anticipated report this month, amid a continuing push by teachers unions to end the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Wednesday that students in grades three to eight will have as much time as they need to complete their state - mandated tests this year — as long as they are «working productively.»

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Members of the group say students spend too much time on tests and they aren't a good way to evaluate teachers.

One example was if special - ed students are given a test written to a much higher reading level than they can ever achieve.

As New York state leaders work to fix the much - maligned Common Core education standards, one group with a seat at the table says standardized tests are causing anxiety among students — and now there's data to back it up.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

But she said it sounds like the plan is being sold as a «matrix» when it's actually not much different than the current system, which is based on student test scores and observations.

Flanagan says he wants to modify the rules so that teachers and students can see the test results much earlier, within a couple of months of the exam dates, instead of waiting until August for their release.

She believes there's too much stress on students and teachers from tests that are badly created, and she doesn't like tying those test results to teacher evaluations.

«The information given out about the test questions does not provide a complete picture, making it hard to judge how much progress students made last year,» said Fred Smith, a former testing analyst for city schools.

In a phone interview, Dr. Rosa, 64, said she believed there was too much emphasis on standardized tests as measures of students» and schools» performance.

Even DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña acknowledged as much, going as far as to say that students with disabilities are «never [going to] get to a certain level on this kind of test» and would consider opting out her own child if she were the mother of a student with a disability.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, told state legislators today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for evaluating teachers relies too much on testing students for a static standard.

1) That while it's possible that genes may play some role in explaining these differences, much of it comes down to culture, environment, and the fact that the questions on IQ tests are all written by graduate students from Connecticut and begin, «Teddy leaves Sag Harbor on the brunchtime jitney...»

When your students take the online test, their responses will become part of a national dataset that will give us a much clearer picture of what students at different education levels understand about weather and climate and about the prevalence and persistence of common misconceptions.

That was a good impulse, but they were asking students to make a decision about whether to get genetically tested without much information about the program.

«Prior to this, there has never been an easy way to measure teachers» knowledge of student thinking, while we have probably been placing too much emphasis on testing for advanced scientific knowledge.

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

On a follow - up test administered eight months later, students still remembered the information they had been quizzed on much better than the information they had reviewed.

Those students who were admitted to the high - performing schools went on to perform much better on standardized tests.

In one of Cunningham's activities, designed to fit the standards, elementary students clean up a hypothetical oil spill much the way an environmental engineer would: by proposing solutions and conducting hands - on tests.

Tests indicate the robot can boost how much students remember from their lessons.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

«Students who actually got to hold this bicycle wheel did much better — in a statistically significant way — when tested on angular momentum problems,» Singer said.

I usually don't go to the gym, and don't have an access to weights, but I won't have much trouble for testing, and if it carries over well, I'll probably keep it up and try to lift (with one leg) one of my students who's 200 lb.

Students learn so much during the teacher training process, it's hard to know what to focus on while you are studying for your final test out.