Not exact matches
These data
often provide a better measure of academic gain than do
state test results, and they accurately reflect the period of time the student was in school.
By and large, the
state - level
testing not only failed to report
results disaggregated by race and class but
often wasn't even administered to low performing students.
State test results are
often not useful to teachers because they arrive too late to inform instructional decisions, and in many cases, teachers can not access student performance by content standard.
* Author's note:
States often present
test results to one - tenth of a point.
Results were mixed at some of New York City's most highly touted charter schools,
often acclaimed as «miracle» schools because in years past, so many of their mostly poor and minority students aced the
state's proficiency
tests.
More
often, models have been
tested by hindcasting — they are forced with a known change starting at a past known climate
state, and asked whether they can accurately project the output (e.g., a temperature change
resulting from a change in CO2, solar forcing, etc.)?
Often in probability / statistics the skill is in
stating the hypothesis so that the
result of the
test is a direct answer to the question you want to pose.
These standards
often mandate that the
testing site is
state approved and parent is afforded an opportunity to challenge a positive
test result.