Sentences with phrase «numbers of students tested in»

Small numbers of students tested in several MassInsight award - winning schools suggest that MCAS score gains may reflect little more than variations in the testing pool.

DPI said comparisons are «unreliable,» though, because of the small number of students tested in the statewide voucher program.

Note: For 2013 Free and Reduced lunch percents were calculated by dividing the number of students tested in third grade who were economically disadvantaged by the total number of students tested in third grade.

Not exact matches

The teacher blows the whistle and everyone jumps in the pool and starts dog paddling during the tread water portion of the test and as you are keeping yourself afloat you look around and see a large number of students wearing inflated water wings and just napping as they float through the exam.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

The program must require the testing of a statistically significant number of students multiple times throughout the year at approximately 30 percent of high schools that participate in athletic competitions sponsored by the League.

In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 In 2009, 82 % of students in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 in grades three to eight had supposedly performed at grade level on the math tests; but on the 2010 tests, that number fell to 54 %.

The movement has had a stark impact on the number of students in grades 3 - 8 in Nassau and Suffolk counties taking state tests since 2012 — the last year that non-Common Core tests were given.

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Numbers for 2017 test attendance will not be released until the summer, but Newsday already is reporting that about half of Long Island students boycotted the English exams given in late March.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

Upstate districts such as Fairport and Chateaugay increased their participation by 14 percent and 27 percent, respectively, and the number of students taking the test improved in 15 of 16 districts in the Rochester area, the organization said.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa say they've been in touch with testing vendor Questar Assessment since Wednesday, when testing was delayed for an unknown number of third - through eighth - grade students as they sat for the mandatory tests.

A large number of New York's students refused to participate in state tests this year.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

By contrast, Moskowitz kept her schools open for one reason: In a city where the overwhelming number of black and Latino students are failing their proficiency tests, she believes students can not afford to miss the precious education they get.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iIn the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets inin.

Test scores for third through eighth graders were released Wednesday and they show a dramatic drop in the number of New York state students who are considered proficient in math and English.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's report comes on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state are expected to once again boycott the required third through eighth grade math tests.

Numbers for attendance at the 2017 tests will not be released until the summer, but already Newsday is reporting that around half of Long Island students boycotted the English exams given in late March.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

In addition, the number of students opting out of the state tests slightly declined for the first time in five years, according to data r.In addition, the number of students opting out of the state tests slightly declined for the first time in five years, according to data r.in five years, according to data r...

Medical students are required to memorize such a huge number of facts — from the anatomy and physiology of every structure in the human body to the fine details of thousands of tests, diagnoses, and treatments — that they generally do not have time to critique the information they must cram into their heads.

A growing number of parents are withdrawing their children from the annual state tests; the epicenter of the «opt - out» movement may be New York State, where as many as 90 percent of students in some districts reportedly refused to take the year - end examination last spring.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

As a result, NAEP never collected in its long - term trend assessment a representative sample of students for any specific state, and the median number of tested students in each state was very small.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

More students are taking and passing AP exams: the number of test - takers grew from 7,636 in 2010 to 10,756 in 2016, and the number of students passing the tests increased from 5,266 in 2010 to 6,440 in 2016.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

With this logic in mind, we examined the effect of the New York City school - wide merit pay program at schools with different numbers of teachers with test - taking students.

It turns out that the effectiveness of school - wide bonus programs may, in fact, depend on the number of teachers with tested students in a school (see Figure 1).

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

Towards an adaptive education system in Australia says that, despite individual bright spots, overall student performance is declining in international tests, and an unacceptably high number of students are not ready for life after school.

If we know that not all students learn at the same pace and may not process skills and concepts in the same way, then differentiation is the solution to maximizing the number of students who can apply their understanding of standards on high - stakes tests.

It is required to report whatever metrics its state chooses not only for all its tested grades (3 - 5), but also for a number of distinct «subgroups» including those defined by race / ethnicity, as long as there are more students in each subgroup than the minimum n - size the state has chosen.

[2] I use total enrollment in grades 3 - 8 to estimate the percentage of students who opted out (i.e. the number of opt - outs, which are presumably for tests in grades 3 - 8, divided by the number of students enrolled in those grades).

University of Washington researchers use state test scores, rates of free and reduced lunch, and the number of AP classes that students enroll in to determine the general level of school achievement for comparison.

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

A study by Joshua Goodman that was published in Education Next found that the number of snow days in a given year do not have an impact on student test scores.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

Studies show that more than one - third of all first - year college students are required — as a result of placement tests — to take some form of remedial coursework in either English or mathematics; the number is far higher at some institutions.

In looking over the numbers of students opting out of tests in different states, Bermudez finds support for poll results showing that most Americans don't support pulling children out of testIn looking over the numbers of students opting out of tests in different states, Bermudez finds support for poll results showing that most Americans don't support pulling children out of testin different states, Bermudez finds support for poll results showing that most Americans don't support pulling children out of tests.

But gains in precision obtained by increasing the number of students observed will be offset by losses associated with failing to control for baseline test scores.

As critics contend, the state's aggregate test - score improvements on the 4th - grade FCAT reading exam — and likely on the NAEP exam as well — are inflated by the change in the number of students who were retained in 3rd grade in accordance with the state's new test - based promotion policy.

The relevance of including students with disabilities in assessment and accountability has been demonstrated by the increase in the number of students with disabilities in many states who took and passed the standardized tests and an increase in graduation rates in recent years.