Sentences with phrase «objective test scores»

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

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More objective, more detailed, and more expensive is «Software Digest Ratings Newsletter» (800-223-7093; $ 445 for 15 IBM issues; $ 185 for 12 Mac issues), which runs each product mentioned through exhaustive tests and assigns a relative overall score.

Straticyte is the first and only molecular diagnostic test for oral precancerous lesions that provides an objective and accurate prediction score as evidenced by retrospective clinical studies.

A significant positive correlation was found between the amount of prayer the agents did and their scores on the five objective tests.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

Evaluations will be based 40 percent on objective measures like test scores and 60 percent on subjective measures like classroom observation.

These papers add to a growing body of information suggesting that widely used «objective» admissions measures, such as GRE test scores and GPA, are exactly the wrong way to go about picking future contributors to scientific progress.

To make the task manageable, the first round of the process consists of discarding the great majority of candidates on the basis of two quantifiable, and therefore supposedly objective, standards: grade point average and GRE scores, including those in specific subject matter tests.

This evidence - based checklist includes seven objective measures - including physical exam findings, functional testing (hop and agility testing, movement assessment for jumping and landing mechanics), and a functional outcome score.

One test that is the best objective marker of blood vessel health is the Coronary Artery Calcium Score or CAC.

Objective To test the association of a polygenic risk score for waist - to - hip ratio (WHR) adjusted for body mass index (BMI), a measure of abdominal adiposity, with type 2 diabetes and CHD through the potential intermediates of blood lipids, blood pressure, and glycemic phenotypes.

Recent government education policies seem to assume that academic achievement as measured by test scores is the primary objective of public education.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Not surprisingly, examination of the district's test scores objective - by - objective showed that students did well in areas where the textbooks were strong and performed poorly in other areas.

He wrote that «undue emphasis upon average test results, upon school - to - school and teacher - to - teacher comparisons... may cause the teacher... to neglect the interests of the pupils, and to be concerned instead with subject matter objectives and with higher average scores for their own sake.

The failure of the United States to close the international test - score gap, despite assiduous public assertions that every effort would be undertaken to produce that objective, raises questions about the nation's overall reform strategy.

Providing readers with an understanding of the role of assessment in the instructional process, this book helps students learn how to construct effective test questions that are aligned with learning objectives, evaluate published tests and properly interpret scores of standardised tests.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

Faced with these challenges, the administration has relaxed its aggressive timetables for states to begin evaluating all teachers based on objective measures of student learning, such as standardized test scores.

(Lee Harvey Times Higher Education Supplement 2008-08-28) Test scores are objective, scientific, and easy to understand — so what's the problem?

Advocates contend that test scores offer a more objective measure of a teacher's performance than most evaluations currently in place, which rarely consider student progress and rate nearly all teachers as successful.

Although NCLB has brought greater attention to the needs of children who perform poorly in school, the primary objective for many teachers has become attaining the state - prescribed test scores.

Objective measures of student learning — often, test scores — frequently account for 25 percent to 50 percent of the teacher's evaluation.

In addition to the legal action, the union has distributed letters for teachers to give to their principals, expressing opposition to the new evaluations and the use of standardized test scores in setting objectives for teachers in initial planning conferences.

In addition, Hespe said the state will add an appeal process for the current year around the use of so - called «student growth objectives,» a separate measure that uses assessments other than standardized test scores.

For one, they ignore the key reason why the Obama Administration declined to renew Washington State's waiver: The state's failure to meet its promise to replace its shoddy observation - based evaluations with more - objective data - based performance management tools using test score growth data.

You write, «I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that the closest thing states have to an objective measure of student achievement [value - added growth scores based on standardized tests] should not be part of the equation.»

With regards to actual metrics, NCLB relies on objective measurement criteria such as standardized test scores that are then used to track student and school performance over time.

Therefore, a key issue in determining alignment is the degree to which assessment results lead to correct classification of test scores and, by extension, correct interpretations of student performance relative to learning objectives and standards.

Unions say there is no objective way to evaluate teachers, arguing principals can be biased and incompetent, and test scores are influenced by factors outside of a teacher's control (such as poverty).

But our private school had been given objective documentation that Simbuilder's math skills were considerably out of grade level: he had scored near the top of 5th grade on the Woodcock - Johnson individual achievement tests the summer before 1st grade.

A large part of the performance based pay objectives rest in standardized test scores.

«Education reformers claim that standardized test scores are an objective measure of student performance, and school and teacher quality; thus it is reasonable to attach severe consequences to them.

Under the new Indiana law, schools must use an assessment that includes some kind of objective data — like scores on standardized tests — and link teacher performance to pay.

Teaching with the objective of assuring higher standardized test scores has failed to produce well - rounded, knowledgeable students able to do well in College and beyond.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

Critics point to a report released last week showing how school districts in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties ignore objective data like test scores and grades, and they often place black and Latino ninth - graders in math classes below their level.

The drawback of objective measures, such as test scores, is that they may be biased against students who are not good test takers, as well as against low - income and / or minority students, who tend to have lower scores that do not reflect actual knowledge or predict future success (Steele 1997; Rothstein 2004; Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005; Madaus and Clarke 2001).

In too many places, and in too many minds, school improvement has become a checklist of objectives and test scores.

This technically excellent, turnkey assessment solution provides the instrument needed for objective measurement of achievement coupled with the automation of online testing, scoring, and reporting.

The student demonstrated intellectual giftedness as evidenced by any of the following: standardized achievement test scores (90th + percentile), scores on tests of general aptitude (125 + IQ), or other objective and subjective indicators of potential for well - above - average academic performance.

SGO in one paragraph: The «student growth objective» is a second measure that will look at student achievement beyond state test scores.

And, at least in reading, it's unlikely even to achieve the desired objective of boosting test scores.

For example, a rubric would likely not be necessary for a multiple - choice math test with an objective score; however, a rubric would be perfectly suited to assess a multi-step problem solving test which is more subjectively graded.

«Multimetric accountability systems should use formative assessments, evidence of student learning, and progress toward personal growth objectives to measure student and teacher success rather than rely on standardized test scores as the primary reference point.»

Along with observations, scores on student learning objectives, and survey responses, [10] they might also include the value that teachers bring to student outcomes other than achievement test scores.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and other state officials, for example, promised to roll out teacher and school leader evaluation systems using objective student test score growth data.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

Nonetheless, there is substantial evidence to the contrary, especially from research in which organizational effectiveness is defined as the organization «s bottom line (some measure of productivity) and assessed using objective indicators, such as student test scores.

These documents describe what they call an objective teacher evaluation process that is based on student test scores, takes into account students» prior performance, and arrives at a score that is able to measure teacher effectiveness.