Sentences with phrase «old state tests»

In other districts, teachers are starting to teach the standards while still administering old state tests, or giving the old and new tests at the same time.

But while exams that test the Common Core are still in development, her kids will be taking the same old state tests.

Duncan's announcement comes in the wake of mounting pressure to address the timing misalignment among the implementation of the Common Core standards, the ongoing administration of old state tests aligned to previous standards, and teacher evaluation requirements that straddled the two.

Matt Barnum looks at what states are doing about their exit exams now that they are using Common Core - aligned tests, which are harder than the old state tests they used.

Their class had to pass the old state tests, which they first took as sophomores, in order to graduate.

Paul Richter, director of assessment for the Washoe County Schools in Reno, Nev., says the old state tests had to go.

For example at Kevin Glynn's school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Brookhaven, New York, most kids were proficient on the old state tests.

On Kentucky's old state tests, last given in 2011, about 75 percent percent of students were considered proficient in reading and math.

Last week, technical issues brought testing to a halt in three states, while in yet more states, thousands of parents refused to let their students sit for exams that are expected to be much harder than the old state tests they are replacing.

I came out very publicly against former Secretary Arne Duncan's Race To the Top initiative, not because I disagreed with everything in it but because it made no sense to me to implement the Common Core (which I favored) while still beholden to the NCLB accountability mechanisms based on the old state tests.

State researchers have chosen to define adequacy based on selected student outcomes — more specifically on the number of students passing tests that were part of the old state testing system, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

(California this year is not giving its old state tests as it transitions to the common - core aligned tests designed by Smarter Balanced.)

«The scores for the multiple - choice questions were on the low side of what you saw on the old state tests, but on the performance tasks we mostly saw 1s and 2s on the four - point rubric.»

«One - shot, year - end bubble tests administered on a single day, too often lead to a dummying down of curriculum,» Duncan said of the old state tests.

A RAND study published in 2012 looked at how well 17 of the old state tests gauged «higher - order skills,» such as abstract thinking skills and the ability to draw inferences from multiple sources.

The NAEP is considered far more rigorous than most of the old state tests, including the DC CAS.

The state dropped the PARCC exam altogether, launched a review of its Common Core standards and, in doing so, left teachers and students in districts like Kingsport in limbo, forcing them to use the old state test, which wasn't aligned to the standards they had been using, but would be used to evaluate teachers and impact their pay.

The state department of education has emphasized, as it did last year, that teaching to the Common Core will prepare students for the old state tests too — though student scores from last year's TCAP indicate otherwise.

Back in 2009, the old state tests showed 77 % of students statewide were proficient in English.

The bill, which Gov. Haslam signed much to the chagrin of Huffman, meant teachers and students in Tennessee would once again be responsible for teaching to the Common Core's more difficult standards while preparing students for the old state tests based on the old state standards.

There's no past year comparison for the test students took last spring, but Long Beach students» scores on the old state test had been improving steadily for more than a decade.