Sentences with phrase «of test scores»

Already, the board has put in place a four - year moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

It's now opposed to high - stakes testing and the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

One solution, performance evaluation on the basis of test scores, is prevalent in many countries.

Reducing the weight of test scores is a step in the right direction, but I agree with you that tying the two together is not good educational policy.

I believe, as I did before this exercise, that programs that are making progress in terms of test scores are also helping students long - term.

First, we propose that the state board of education issue a moratorium stating that the first year of tests scores will not be used on teacher evaluations.

But let's say you don't believe me about the weak predictive power of test score gains and are determined to use tests as the main indicator of school quality.

First, mandated school performance reports should include value - added analyses of test scores.

The timing of the public release of the test scores is one.

These findings are consistent because the baseline levels of test scores tend to be lower for the lower income students, so a similar absolute test score effect can be a greater percentage effect.

For example, we estimate that the black - white graduation gap is about 5 percent larger in the absence of test score manipulation.

They promote «management» of teachers and they push the production model of test scores as useful data.

For many general education teachers, the impact of the test scores of students with disabilities on their value - added scores is relatively limited.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

I've always believed my own children — and the students I've taught — are more than the sum of their test scores.

The Academic Performance Index (API) is an annual measure of test score performance of schools and districts.

No longer will schools be threatened with takeover by the state strictly because of test scores.

These reports include warnings about interpretation and misuse of test scores.

But the report shows that they are predictive of test score gains.

Even poorly educated parents may have much more information about quality than analysts and regulators sitting in their offices looking at spreadsheets of test scores.

We should be considerably more humble about claiming to know which teachers, schools, and programs are good or bad based on an examination of their test scores.

Instead of test scores, these researchers used very different measures of success: long - term outcomes like educational attainment and a student's income in adulthood.

Now teachers receive one of four ratings, based on a mix of test scores, principal observations and other factors decided on locally, such as student surveys.

In another study, he finds that percentage effects of test scores tend to be somewhat greater for the lower income students.

With no previous track record of test scores, however, parents aversion to testing may leave prospective families with few ways to measure the schools academics.

Combining a professional assessment of test scores, in addition to an understanding of the learning and emotional child, is the key to find the right learning environment for your child.

The issue of test scores sometimes seems to come down to a matter of whom one wants to believe; there is evidence on both sides.

By contrast, teachers now avoid creative teaching in fear of test score declines.

One indicator of the volatility of test scores is the rarity of repeat winners.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

The state also released the results of principal evaluations, which were also based on a combination of test scores and observations by administrators.

He found the average score dropped by just two points, from 54 to 52, while 80 % of the test scores remained the same.

You will receive immediate notification of your test score.

However, a casual analysis of any group of test scores will nearly always show them to be highly correlated.

• Long - term benefits occur despite convergence of test scores.

A year later, reflecting on the growth of test scores reinforced the effectiveness of the model.

No one wakes up one morning with a fully formed plot in their head to change hundreds of test scores in dozens of schools.

This approach is also skeptical of test scores, but not of accountability per se.

The effect of the multiple exposure vocabulary method and the target reading / writing strategy of test scores.

I believe that if we focus solely upon the bottom - line of test scores, we completely miss the more fundamental importance of positive learning environments and strong curriculum.

So last spring the district decided to adhere strictly to a matrix of test scores and grades when making ninth - grade math placements.

Raising standardized achievement test scores and the origins of test score pollution.

As we go forward in a world that will reward teamwork, problem solving, and creativity more and more, my confidence in the absolute authority of test scores is trending down.

This measurement of test score gain is critical in controlling for innate cognitive ability.

We need schools to be human enterprises that have guidelines and expectations and focused not on results in the traditional sense of tests scores, but more broadly on human capital.

If enough of their test scores make big gains, add a bonus point.

Putting a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.