Sentences with phrase «national standardized tests»

Although overall scores on national standardized tests have been among the fastest - rising in the nation, there are still stark achievement gaps separating white and black students and the wealthy and poor.

Several new research projects demonstrate how information technology can both deepen and broaden assessment practices in elementary and secondary education by both assessing more comprehensively and assessing new skills and concepts — all of which can strengthen state assessments, national standardized tests like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and classroom - based tests meant to help teachers improve their instruction.

The Department of Education's continued emphasis on comparing students across state lines is clearly aimed at implementing a scheme of national standardized testing controlled, at least in a de facto fashion, by the federal government.

So says Fed Ed Head Arne Duncan, in the bully pulpit calling for national standards (and, of course, the inevitable national standardized tests for all).

National standardized tests linked to the Common Core will be released in 2014, and Minnich thinks that many states will see dramatic changes that school year.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests and high school graduation rates; or performance in closing achievement gaps between a school's subgroups and all students over the past five years while increasing graduation rates for each subgroup.

Educators in Nevada seem to agree the state could do a lot more to improve the academic achievement of the roughly 400,000 public school students in pre-K-12th grade this year, who, on average, lag behind their peers in most other states on national standardized tests and graduation rates.

It is possible that TAAS, which is based on the mandated Texas curriculum, tests different skills than those tested by the national standardized tests.

«National standardized testing is a bold step towards instituting a national curriculum,» Family Research Council President Gary Bauer said in a Sept. 9 statement.

Lithuania Policy Research Capacity Project In this project (2001 - 2003), 3 policy research studies were carried: 1) How do school and student factors explain variation in a national standardized test; 2) Why is the national test result not correlated with international test results?

Our study is based on student - level data from Chile's national standardized test, Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (Educational Quality Measurement System — SIMCE), which assesses students in grades 4, 8, and 10 in language, mathematics, history and geography, and natural sciences.

Bay State Blues Though Massachusetts leads the nation on national standardized tests, new findings by Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux indicate that there is room for significant improvement.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

The Global Report Card was calculated using state accountability tests, national standardized tests, and international tests taken in other countries.

The gains show up on national standardized tests and the city's own tests in reading and math, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The vendors also fail to tell us that the national standardized tests will be driving all decision - making about special populations anyway and that all special populations will have to take the same test as non-special populations.

Maryland's public school students made greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers in nearly every other state, although the achievement gap between white and minority students persists.

We fear that following Mr. Duncan's lead will move us at a breakneck speed down a $ 5 billion - dollar path to privatization, national standardized tests, and loss of local control over schools, leaving our children even farther behind.

The voucher schools do have to administer a national standardized test, but it doesn't matter which one and the school is not required to report those results to the state unless it has a certain number of voucher students.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests; or schools with at least 40 percent of students from disadvantaged backgrounds that raise achievement as measured by state assessments or national standardized tests.

Genethia Hudley Hayes and Jose Huizar, the school board members who proposed the motion, say they question whether a national standardized test like the Stanford 9, on which many low - income black and Latino children do poorly, is the best measure.

They are making huge profits from the manufacture of the national standardized tests and from the publishing of test prep materials that schools are compelled to buy.