Sentences with phrase «national achievement tests»

With its showing on the gold standard of national achievement tests, the Duval County School District is now reaping the considerable benefits of former School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti's bold and aggressive style of leadership.

There was a positive improvement in academic performance on state and national achievement tests.

Student scores on national achievement tests are flat, and we are one of very few states with a growing achievement gap.

Supporters also point to high test scores, but the editorial claims «there is no way to accurately compare voucher [sic] students with Florida public school students» because the latter are required to take the state achievement test while the former are required to take one of several national achievement tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test or PSAT.

As a group, Hispanics perform well below average on national achievement tests, and their high school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.

A new group, Educate America Inc., announces plans to develop a national achievement test for all high - school seniors, and to ask the Congress to fund it and make it mandatory.

A required national achievement test required once in the elementary, once in the middle school, and once in the high school

Not exact matches

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

And in 1992, the U.S. Department of Education found that attending to a child's learning style was one of the few strategies that improved achievement of special education students on national tests.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Lucero feels that there is not enough emphasis on science in classes at LES, and students typically have a poor showing in achievement tests on science and math compared to the national average.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

President Bill Clinton has called for national education standards and voluntary achievement testing.

In Australia, for example, writing is included as one of four core areas assessed in the nationwide tests of student achievement (National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy [NAPLAN]-RRB-, and students are expected to know how to write within diverse creative, informative, and persuasive genres.

The review of Denmark Primary School said achievement standards were «unsatisfactory» and progress of capable students on national literacy and numeracy tests was «alarmingly slow».

Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency on their state tests to results on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of achievement required to be declared proficient in many states has been dropping over the last decade.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

While other tests (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress) show that U.S. student achievement is improving, TIMSS makes clear that these improvements are not rapid enough to keep pace with other nations in an increasingly global economy.

These achievements in Massachusetts and Florida aren't simply improvements on state tests, which could be subject to manipulation, but are confirmed by progress on national tests administered in those states.

Since about 1970, the achievement levels of U.S. students on the reading and math tests of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have remained largely flat despite massive financial and other efforts to improve them.

Research by Fred M. Newmann and his colleagues on «intellectual works» (previously called «authentic achievement») showed how more real - world and complex performance assessment improves student achievement as measured by national and state tests.

As an example of the limitation of this measure, note that the United States is coded as a country where teacher salaries can be adjusted for outstanding performance in teaching on the grounds that salary adjustments are possible for achieving the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or for increases in student achievement test scores.

The governing board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress has awarded a $ 1.5 million contract to ACT Inc. of Iowa City to help set new achievement levels for the NAEP math test in grade 12.

A study of more than three dozen countries, including the United States, challenges the popular belief that superior student achievement on international mathematics and science tests breeds national economic success.

Washington — Efforts to provide state - by - state comparisons of student - achievement data moved forward last week with the announced formation by the Council of Chief State School Officers of a planning group for a new, expanded National Assessment of Educational Progress test in mathematics in 1990.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

The long term trend test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (LTT NAEP) is the longest running test of student achievement that provides a scientifically valid estimate of what American students have learned.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

In this report, we use 2007 test - score information to evaluate the rigor of each state's proficiency standards against the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an achievement measure that is recognized nationally and has international credibility as well.

Members of these groups were told about either the state ranking of the average student in the respondent's district on standardized tests of achievement or the national ranking of the performance of the average student in the district.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

With few exceptions, including Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C., the achievement gap on the national tests has remained constant in all major cities.

This study presents evidence on whether NCLB has influenced student achievement based on an analysis of state - level panel data on student test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

Achievement can be measured quantitatively, and we have seen gains in state and national testing results such as the SAT and AP test scores.

Michigan schools continue to trail most states in academic achievement, according to the national NAEP test.

They also embrace standardized testing as a way to measure student achievement, and both call for all states to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), called «the nation's report card,» which tests students in grades four, eight, and twelve in various subject areas.

Schools must use a range of assessment tools, not standardized tests alone, to measure students» «authentic» achievement levels, a new report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals concludes.

Eric Hanushek, joined by nationally recognized school finance lawyer Alfred Lindseth: Since about 1970, the achievement levels of U.S. students on the reading and math tests of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have remained largely flat despite massive financial and other efforts to improve them.

A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter school fourth graders had lower scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test, than their counterparts in regular public schools.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

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Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

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Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

Ofqual also says exam boards will use test results from national curriculum tests (Sats) taken at the end of primary school to predict the likely achievement at the new grades of one, four and seven.

The New York City Department of Education's stunning announcement that it intends to release teacher ratings based on student test scores and academic achievement is the latest example of a growing national movement to fix our country's broken public education system...

Nationally normed elementary achievement testing in America's public schools: How all 50 states are above the national average