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High Achievement New York, a group that has been supportive of the Common Core standards, praised on Tuesday the state's transparency in releasing some English Language Arts and math test questions this year.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

Think it sounds tough to take the New York state student achievement tests?

Last year, 20 percent of New York students refused to take state tests, aligned to the Common Core standards for higher achievement.

«If we're saying that the only thing that's a valid measure of student achievement is a test score, versus all the other work they do, it's going to be a sad day for the students of New York state,» Mulgrew said.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

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.

But for Core proponents, the timing couldn't be worse: Just as states began implementing the new standards, 40 states receiving No Child waivers are also launching new systems to evaluate teachers, which will incorporate some measures of student achievement, including, where available, scores from standardized tests.

An analysis in our recently published book examines the NAEP test - score trends in the four states that have implemented court remedies the longest, and demonstrates that, despite spending increases amounting to billions of dollars, the achievement patterns in three of them — Wyoming, New Jersey, and Kentucky — are largely unchanged from what they were in the early 1990s, before the court - ordered remedies commenced.

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.»

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

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 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 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 State School Officers of a planning group for a new, expanded National Assessment of Educational Progress test in mathematics in 1990.

But when a state switches to a new test, first - year results can't be used to compare achievement to that of previous years.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

If you look at student achievement data, say in New York state, results on the typical New York state test correlate to socioeconomic status in reading, one and a half to two times as much as they do in math.

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).

For the 2002 - 2003 through the 2005 - 2006 school year test administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade letest administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade leTest (NYSESLAT) for their grade level.

The New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) continues New York State's efforts to provide English Language Learners with a test that is consistent with the Common Core, the New Language Progressions, and current advances in the field of language assessmTest (NYSESLAT) continues New York State's efforts to provide English Language Learners with a test that is consistent with the Common Core, the New Language Progressions, and current advances in the field of language assessmtest that is consistent with the Common Core, the New Language Progressions, and current advances in the field of language assessment.

The suit filed in state Supreme Court in Albany by the STA and about 30 city teachers, and supported by New York State United Teachers, argues SED did not properly account for the devastating effects of student poverty on achievement when it set growth scores on state tests in grades 4 - 8 math and English Language state Supreme Court in Albany by the STA and about 30 city teachers, and supported by New York State United Teachers, argues SED did not properly account for the devastating effects of student poverty on achievement when it set growth scores on state tests in grades 4 - 8 math and English Language State United Teachers, argues SED did not properly account for the devastating effects of student poverty on achievement when it set growth scores on state tests in grades 4 - 8 math and English Language state tests in grades 4 - 8 math and English Language Arts.

A new study of Massachusetts middle schools contends schools that don't track students of the same grade into multiple course levels based on their achievement have fewer students scoring at the advanced level on state standardized tests in mathematics.

Test - Refusal Movement's Success Hampers Analysis of New York State Exam Results New York Times, 8/14/15» «I remember the bad old days when achievement gaps between groups of students or between schools and school districts were hidden as if they were a dirty secret,» Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an email.

«Here's the reason to stand up and take notice from third grade through high school, Union City students» scores on the state's achievement tests approxi ¬ mate the New Jersey averages.

are an annual list, going this year to schools that in the 2011 - 2012 state tests either showed high achievement levels overall or the greatest progress as indicated by the state's new system of «student growth percentiles» (SGP).

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

Common grade - level achievement tests include the Terra Nova / CTBS, Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), California Achievement (CAT), Stanford Achievement (SAT), and all state mandated grade level achievement tests such as PSSA in Pennsylvania, NJASK, GEPA, and HSPA in New Jersey, TAAS and TAKS in Texas, achievement tests include the Terra Nova / CTBS, Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), California Achievement (CAT), Stanford Achievement (SAT), and all state mandated grade level achievement tests such as PSSA in Pennsylvania, NJASK, GEPA, and HSPA in New Jersey, TAAS and TAKS in Texas, Achievement (CAT), Stanford Achievement (SAT), and all state mandated grade level achievement tests such as PSSA in Pennsylvania, NJASK, GEPA, and HSPA in New Jersey, TAAS and TAKS in Texas, Achievement (SAT), and all state mandated grade level achievement tests such as PSSA in Pennsylvania, NJASK, GEPA, and HSPA in New Jersey, TAAS and TAKS in Texas, achievement tests such as PSSA in Pennsylvania, NJASK, GEPA, and HSPA in New Jersey, TAAS and TAKS in Texas, and others.

See: Educational Testing Service, Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards, 2012.

Just as soon as the state's new test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New Yonew test scores were released — and even before, in the case of mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — reactions started flying about the sobering news about student achievement in New YoNew York.

And now, a pair of ESEA rewrite bills headed to conference in Congress would give states acres of new running room when it comes to setting student achievement goals, figuring out how much tests matter, evaluating teachers, and more.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

State board President Michael Kirst and other members have made it clear that they intend to replace the API, which calculates a three - digit number based primarily on a school's or district's standardized test scores, with a new system in which test scores would be just one of many measures of student achievement and school performance.

A key strategy to improving educational outcomes and closing achievement gaps for children from low - income families is improving state finance systems to ensure equitable funding and increased access to resources, according to a new study from Educational Testing Service (ETS).

The new study in Educational Researcher shows test format explains about 25 percent of the variation in state - and district - level gender achievement gaps in the United States.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

For example, if there is not a physics test in your state and the AP test doesn't seem appropriate, CMs could consider using the New York Regents» Exam as a summative assessment that would represent meaningful achievement in physics.

Two - thirds of states are in the process of adopting new evaluations, and many will include student achievement — usually as measured by standardized tests — along with intensive classroom observations.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is being dropped by half of Massachusetts school districts in favour of a new test (PARCC) which the Commissioner of the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said would «help the state reduce the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, white and minority, by giving teachers better information about which kids need extra support».

Today they are among the highest performers on New York state achievement tests.

Most impressive is a new requirement that states intervene in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest and in high schools where fewer than 67 percent of students graduate on time.

Has the new writing curriculum been chosen to increase our focus on writing achievement as measured by our state testing?

Beginning this fall, in Collier County Florida as per the state of Florida's new teacher accountability policy, district teachers / administrators are to create new tests for each and every class it offers (including all electives) to hold all teachers accountable for the value they purportedly add to student learning and achievement over time.

High - quality implementation of standards - based reform requires the following: specificity in stating the content goals of teaching and learning; consistency / alignment among the policies and practices put in place to pursue those goals (e.g. content standards, student achievement tests, performance standards, curriculum materials, professional development, accountability); authority / legitimacy to those charged with implementation; power through rewards and sanctions; and stability — when policies, practices, and leadership are in a state of flux, it is difficult to take each new thing that comes along seriously.

Related: Common Core tests will widen the achievement gap at first Thirty - five states have no exit exam at all and seven have exit exams of some other kind — end - of - course tests, New York's Regents tests, California's CAHSEE, a civics exam, etc. — but will not be using a sole test score to allow seniors to graduate or not.

The new law requires states to design rating systems that rely heavily on student achievement, including proficiency rates on standardized math and reading tests, year - to - year growth on those tests and graduation rates.

Varsity Tutors provides intensive 4 and 6 week test prep programs for Texas students, helping them achieve new levels of achievement on the state standardized exams.

We would get rid of our messy, different 50 - state variations of standards, and make our kids smarter by incentivizing them to aspire to a higher bar of achievement, make them all college - ready, enable them to rank higher on international tests, and enable them to better compete in the new global economy.

Additionally, ESSA requires states to annually test 95 percent of students in reading and math, to use the participation rate to calculate the achievement indicator, and to factor assessment participation into the statewide accountability system another way.21 For example, four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont — plan to lower a school's classification for not meeting this requirement.22 In three states — Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee — schools that do not have a 95 percent participation rate can not score at the highest level of proficiency; receive zero points for proficiency; or receive an F on the achievement indicator for the given group of students, respectively.23

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.

Another screening is conducted in the spring of each year when students take the New York State Assessment of English Language as a Second Language Achievement Test.