Sentences with phrase «on a single test score in»

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

Not exact matches

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

The two basic movements in the sitting - rising test — lowering to the floor and standing back up — are each scored on a 1 - to - 5 scale, with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0.5 points subtracted for loss of balance; this yields a single 10 - point scale.

Thus no system should rely solely on the snapshot of a single year's test scores in making decisions about incentives or consequences.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

When we clump children together into a single diagnostic category based on test scores, we not only fail to address what might be causing the dyslexia, but we also ignore variability in performance that limits our ability to identify individual differences.

By foregrounding the NAPLAN score scale and proficiency bands, NAPLAN would model and promote a growth mindset in assessment, an approach that follows naturally from recognition that learning occurs on a continuum and that a single year level test is inappropriate for most students.

The problem is that such consequences place too much weight on single - year changes in test scores at the school level.

The corporate reform narrative is based on three assertions, 1) that the collective voice of teachers is unwelcome in the discussion of the direction of education, 2) that a single metric — high stakes standardized test scores — can discern effective schooling, and 3) that the marketplace and profit motive are the best way to improve schools.

That's the case with dozens of other «screened» high schools in New York, too, which are selective — often highly so — but don't rely exclusively on a single test score to decide who gets in.

Therefore, when policymakers seek to reward schools for improvements in test scores, they should do so based on multiple years rather than a single year of data.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

Schools, and those of us working in them, are deemed «failing» based solely on a single test's scores, with no consideration of the growth in our students» scores.

When access to rigorous programs is limited, or entry into them is handled simplistically (e.g., a child's score on a single test), plenty of kids who might benefit don't get drawn into the pipeline that leads to later success at the AP level and in schools like TJ — of which there aren't enough, either.

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

The same is true on our Georgia Milestones testing: in every grade that's tested, the scores in math are higher, every single time — and that's district - wide on multiple measures in math.»

The single - subject focus was necessary in this case because the focus was on improving scores on a particular standardized test.

Within a single year, the school went from scoring in the 62nd percentile on state tests to the 89th percentile.

In contrast, if a student's performance on a reading test were reported as a single, overall «reading comprehension» score, this would be a large, whopper - level grain size.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

As if all of this wasn't clear enough, in what is undoubtedly one of the most incredible and shocking comments to come out of the Malloy administration yet, the representative of the State Department of Education told the SDE working group, «best practice dictates that educators should never make consequential decisions based on a single test score.»

But the scoring of the free - response items on the tests emphasizes a formulaic response, with the scoring instructions often looking for a single keyword in a response to garner credit.

It compared year - to - year changes in test scores and singled out grades within schools for which gains were 3 standard deviations or more from the average statewide gain on that test.

Last year, only 7 percent of New York City students with disabilities scored «proficient» or better in English and 12 percent in math, and statewide there were at least 190 school districts in which not a single special education student was proficient on the third - grade language arts test.

Instead of judging schools based on a snapshot of a single year's test scores, we compared results during a four - year period, looking for trends in student achievement.

Students in the District's traditional public schools scored higher than ever on the city's math and reading tests this year, also posting the largest single - year gain since 2008, according to test results released Tuesday.

The overall score decreases were quite small — roughly two points in math and a single point in reading — but continued a trend of lackluster 12th - grade performance on the national test.

In educational settings, a decision or characterization that will have major impact on a student should not be made on the basis of a single test score.

In this group, the SlateBook 10 x2's score of 607.5 was by far the highest here (and to date) on the single - threaded version of the test...

On Linpack, a test that measures CPU power, the Nexus 7 achieved a single - threaded score of 46.6 and a multi-threaded score of 128.26, way higher than the 38.5 and 51.5 tablet averages and even stronger than the 44.1 and 118.4 turned in by the Tegra 3 - powered Toshiba Excite 7.7.

The Huawei CMR - AL09, on the other hand, managed to score 1,647 points in a single - core test, while it reached 5,825 points a multi-core test.

Talking about the score, it managed to fetch 814 points on single core and 3898 points in multi-core tests.

Similar results occurred in the Geekbench 3 test, as the Dell tablet hit 2,887 on the multi-core score and 936 on the single core.

On Geekbench 4, which measures overall performance, the Z2 Force scored 6803 and 1938 in multi and single - core tests.

But crucially, the scores aren't enough to beat Apple's A11 Bionic system - on - chip, which scores over 4,200 in single - core tests and over 10,100 in multi-core tests.

Moving on to GeekBench 4 and the results are quite similar; the regular Mate 9 scores 1910 in the single - core test and 5311 in the multi-core test while the Porsche Design Mate 9 scores 1936 and 5921 respectively.

On the other hand, the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus have scored 3430 in the single core test and 5600 in the multi core tests.

When it comes to performance, InFocus Turbo 5 Plus scored 40,483 on Antutu, on GeekBench 4 it scored 617 in the single - core test while it scored 2,520 in the multi-core test.

It's true the iPhone 7 Plus scored much better than the Galaxy S8 on Geekbench's single - core test but overall, the S8's performance in our lab impresses, and that will be reflected in real - world use, too.

The device appeared on GeekBench where it scored 961 and 5215 in single core and multi-core tests respectively.

As for the scores on Geekbench, Blackshark scored a promising 2422 in single - core and 8351 in multi-core tests.

Similar results occurred in the Geekbench 3 test, as the Dell tablet hit 2,887 on the multi-core score and 936 on the single core.

For those interested in benchmark test results, my Geekbench 4 tests on the Galaxy S9 + averaged a single - core score of 2390 and a multi-core score of 7861.

On builds without this issue, the OnePlus X scores around 960 on the single core test, and around 2400 on the multi-core test (which is in line with how an S801 based phone would be expected to performOn builds without this issue, the OnePlus X scores around 960 on the single core test, and around 2400 on the multi-core test (which is in line with how an S801 based phone would be expected to performon the single core test, and around 2400 on the multi-core test (which is in line with how an S801 based phone would be expected to performon the multi-core test (which is in line with how an S801 based phone would be expected to perform).

OnePlus 5 managed to score 1963 in the single - core test and 6687 in the multi-core benchmark test, thus outscoring other flagships on the market.

The A10X is much more powerful — it scored 4,236 in single - core and 6,588 in multi-core tests on Geekbench, compared to A9's 2,397 and 4,013 in single - core and multi-core tests, respectively.

On the Geekbench 3 test, the iPhone 6 scored 1,622 in the single core test and 2,906 in the multi-core test.

The device was able to score 1,420 points in the single - core, and 3,420 points in the multi-core test on Geekbench.

Finally, on Geekbench 4, the Honor 7X scored 901 in the single - core test and 3336 in the multi-core test.

There's nothing more we get from the Geekbench benchmarks in terms of specs and features, but the listing has some scores for the single - core and multi-core tests performed on the alleged Nokia 9.