Sentences with phrase «much test score»

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

It makes more sense to focus on how much test scores have grown at a school rather than whether scores rise to a uniform standard.

Not exact matches

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

While Cassin's GRE score was competitive enough to secure her admission to two top business programs — just shy of 700 — she said one thing she wished she had known was how much your standardized test scores follow you, even after the admissions process.

the ability to test yourself a second time (at no additional charge) after you've applied the strategies to see how much your scores have improved.

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

If it truly was (in part) because of a lack of intelligence then the Wonderlic score (as much as I personally don't trust intelligence tests) should have mellowed out some people's expectations.

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It is the first time Wales have scored six since beating San Marino 6 - 0 in 1996, and they will now face either Uruguay or Czech Republic in the final in Nanning on Monday in what will surely be a much sterner test for Giggs» side.

Toni Kroos has been the player of the tournament so far, Manuel Neuer has barely been tested and Mario Gómez looked much sharper versus Slovakia than in his first start against Northern Ireland, but he scored in both regardless.

I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

And in each one, the situation is the same — there's one neighborhood where poverty is concentrated, where crime rates are higher and test scores are lower and good jobs are pretty much nonexistent.

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.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

In an education system that places so much emphasis on perfect test scores and behavior, it's refreshing that the performing arts typically don't involve set rules.

Nevermind, I found a test and Peter scored a 9 for Spirited and a 6 for Textbook, so pretty much what I would have guessed.

But so much of those substances have been cut out of their diets, it's no wonder they have trouble paying attention, develop mood and behavior disorders (ADD, ADHD, and autism), and continue to display low testing scores.

His findings offer some surprising answers to the questions every parent asks: How much do test scores really matter?

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.»

But focusing so much on standardized test scores is the opposite of how members of most professions are evaluated.»

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.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

While much of what the book asserts is reassuring — standardized test scores are not determinant; IQ isn't all - important; character can be taught — none of it is easy.

See our Ease of Cleaning scores for the tested chairs; we take into account not only the tray's configuration, but also that of any tray insert, the upholstery, and much more.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

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.

Earlier this year, Cuomo pushed for test scores to account for as much as 50 percent of a teacher's assessment.

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.

There isn't going to be much, if any, growth in test scores for some kids.

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

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.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

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.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

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.

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».

Moreover, the researchers report, lithium chloride - treated mice were much less likely to show the 25 percent drop in memory and cognitive test scores seen in untreated mice given the same amount of alcohol.

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

A further benefit is that while usual approaches require heavy use of cross-validation data or testing data to evaluate the predictors, the I - score approach does not rely as much on this as much.

This was an uncontrolled and open study, and so it is difficult to know how much significance we should place on the small improvements in neuropsychological test scores observed in the mild cognitive impairment participants who underwent the training.

According to the researchers, people with long - term low physical activity, as well as people with long - term high television viewing, scored much worse on the tests compared to those who were more active and watched less television.

The conversation covers a lot of ground, touching on why Wahlberg almost fired his agent over Fifty Shades of Grey, Roven showing Heath Ledger the IMAX prologue for The Dark Knight, Entourage salary disputes, horrible test scores for Boogie Nights, and so much more.

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.

But writing, scoring, and analyzing the tests took so much time that they quickly abandoned the effort.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.

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.