Sentences with phrase «new academic achievement tests»

Technology needed to administer new academic achievement tests, such as computer labs, cost about $ 391,500.

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School pupils could be tested for drugs as part of a new government study to determine whether testing can affect youngsters» behaviour, attendance and academic achievements.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

A new movement is trying to refocus admissions away from purely individual academic achievement and toward something you can't measure with SAT tests or resumes padded with public service points: real concern for others and the common good.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing the change in his or her achievement on the state standardized assessment from one year to the student's «academic peers» (all other students in the state who had similar historical test results).

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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...

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

And, Fletcher said, the program's key measure of student achievement — known as Academic Growth Over Time — is based on state standardized tests that will be phased out in the next few years as California moves toward a new national curriculum and assessments.