Sentences with phrase «old statewide tests»

By all accounts, the exams are harder than the old statewide tests and are designed to measure critical thinking in addition to basic math and reading skills.

Testing started Tuesday at the school, where a group of teachers, administrators, parents and students had earlier agreed to boycott the exams, called Smarter Balanced, which are replacing Washington's old statewide tests.

Not exact matches

Last week, California legislators took an unprecedented step: they voted to discontinue their old test and conduct a statewide field test of the Smarter Balanced Assessment in the spring of 2014.

Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion universities have studied our statewide implementations in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and have found that students in schools led by NISL - trained principals outperform their peers at matched schools in both math and English language arts as demonstrated on state tests.

The tests, called Smarter Balanced, are replacing Washington's old statewide exams in reading and math.

The Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M - STEP, is a replacement for the 40 - year old MEAP test and will begin statewide in spring 2Test of Educational Progress, or M - STEP, is a replacement for the 40 - year old MEAP test and will begin statewide in spring 2test and will begin statewide in spring 2015.

Comparability of old to new tests would provide estimates for what student scores would have been if the old tests were continued, highly recommended if not essential for large scale statewide assessment programs as good... Read More

Most public school parents (71 %) expected students to score at least as well on the new tests as on the old ones, according to a recent PPIC Statewide Survey.

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

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.

On the old Connecticut Mastery Tests, the average Madison student score ranged from 86 to 94, while the statewide averages hovered between 63 and 76 -LRB-