Sentences with phrase «of standardized test data»

This report will also include a summary of standardized test data, attendance information and samples of classroom performance.

She stoutly defends teachers unions, questions the value of standardized test data and calls the president's affinity for independently operated charter schools «puzzling.»

Among their objections: the requirement of a statewide teacher evaluation system that includes the use of standardized test data.

In August, the Los Angeles Times was the subject of intense criticism and praise for its series that included value - added scores for individual teachers based on years of standardized test data — a project that newspapers in New York City now want to replicate.

(The group has also filed a case challenging 13 California districts» teachers contracts that prohibit the use of standardized test data in teacher evaluations, which they say violates a 1971 law.)

Ravitch opposes the use of standardized test data to fire teachers or close schools.

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

But there is an even more important reason to reduce the role of standardized testing data in teacher evaluation.

There was a small - scale analysis of standardized testing data based on MAP testing at 32 of the schools.

Not exact matches

To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

While donor human milk undergoes extensive screening and testing to ensure its safety, a first - of - its - kind study by the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, published in the Journal of Human Lactation (JHL), has found a serious lack of standardized data among donor milk banks across North America.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

On the subject of altering the current mandates, including increased standardized testing, Common Core curriculum and the especially controversial data sharing, Tkaczyk said she is certain that these topics will be hotly debated during this legislative session.

The authors analyzed data from 1,752 participants (average age 68) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) who underwent an in - home polysomnography (sleep) study, completed standardized sleep questions, and a battery of tests to measure their cognition.

Standardized exploration of physiological functions, scientific and ethical considerations, study design, analysis and data management, alternative imaging method tests / Preclinical approaches with mouse models, a first step toward the man, interest and limits

Incredibly, the data also indicated that ClariMem ® effectively reversed the equivalent of 9 years of brain aging, based on performance on a standardized cognitive test.

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

The companies should be required to then forward these instructional data, along with test scores, subscores on specific components of the test, and student demographic information, to the state in a standardized format.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

The corporate world provides useful data about simulations designed to change behavior and obtain results (which is exactly what we hope will be learned in many situations but is something that few, if any, of our standardized achievement tests measure).

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

We lack systematic data on the amount of time students nationwide spend taking standardized tests, nor do we know how much would be optimal.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

These data are from a nationally representative sample of roughly 6,000 students from the cohort of students who were in 10th grade in 2002, and include information from student surveys, teacher surveys, standardized tests, and administrative data from schools.

SGPs calculate how a student's performance on a standardized test compares to the performance of all students who received the same score in the previous year (or who have the same score history in cases with multiple years of data).

Yes, that standardized testing data can be useful; however, we teachers spend the entire year collecting all sorts of immediate and valuable information about students that informs and influences how we teach, as well as where and what we review, readjust, and reteach.

Statewide standardized tests, mandated by the federal government under No Child Left Behind, have provided mounds of data for educators to analyze.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

From standardized testing to common formative assessments, we have an expansive amount of data on student ability.

If getting the data using frequent standardized tests occupies up to one - third of all available time to teach, that will alone prevent students from making the marks they should.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

An analysis of national and metropolitan data on public school populations and state standardized test scores for 84,077 schools in 2010 and 2011 reveals that:

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

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.

After analyzing a truly staggering amount of data, the researchers conclude that teacher effectiveness can be measured by using «value - added» analysis of student achievement growth on standardized tests.

The new standardized test data show that in each of the five states examined in this report about 90 % of the ELL students who took the state assessment test were educated in public schools that had at least a minimum threshold number of ELL students.

If the American public understood that the very concept of education was being disfigured into a mechanism to apply standardized testing and sort their children into data points on a normal curve, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

Our data also allow us to examine the impact of race matching on student performance on standardized math and reading tests.

He said standardized tests «will always be a less than perfect way of introducing data into an evaluation.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

The teacher leaders themselves were characterized as strong teachers of Everyday Math by virtue of the standardized student test data that showed they «did well» compared to these classrooms not using Everyday Math.

Last week, classroom teachers voted overwhelmingly to approve a new system of evaluations, which include data from California Standardized Tests.