Sentences with phrase «on exams»

His IEP states that he should have extra time on exams, sit toward the front of the classroom, and have modified tests.

The city also benefited from Mr. Klein's role as a national symbol of school reform, Ms. Tisch said, with private donors giving millions of dollars to help create new projects and experiments, like teacher performance bonuses and cash rewards for students who did well on exams.

«Now that that there is going to be added emphasis from the teacher's perspective of performing well on these exams, students are going to feel that extra pressure.»

Arbitrarily impose cut scores on those exams that cast students, teachers and schools as failing, as was done by NYS Education Commissioner John King and Regent Meryl Tisch.

66 percent of Utah public schools students earned scores of 3, 4, or 5, good enough to earn college credit, on those exams, according to College Board data.

Students enrolled in either track will be offered, test - taking strategies, proctored practice tests, individualized assessments, and one - on - one tutoring for the core competencies measured on the exams.

Less than 48 percent passed or achieved advanced scores on the exams.

Apart from exceptions such as practical experiments in science, there will be a shift towards results depending fully on exams taken at the end of two years.

As a side note, the Post reported this afternoon that of the 3,371 high school graduates from the City's 31 Renewal high schools, 242 earned diplomas through a new «appeals process [approved by the Board of Regents] that allows for lower scores on exams or other side - door routes... This led to a tripling of the number of students graduating using the appeals process in 2016 over 2015, city data show.»

Miami - Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says a review of the Florida Standards Assessments released today shows that on some exams as many as one in three questions weren't testing Florida standards.

The tests have also been criticized by teachers and the state teachers union because students» grades on the exams are considered in evaluating teachers.

The college presidents said they will compare 11th grade scores on PARCC with those on exams like Accuplacer, SAT and ACT this year to see if they match up in determining who is college - ready.

Not all questions on these exams are trivial, for sure.

He says even if Kentucky doesn't go with one of the consortia tests, it's possible Kentucky students could see items written by PARCC or Smarter Balanced on their exams in the future.

Therefore, students who do not achieve mastery on these exams are unable to continue working toward mastery.

The new GCSEs courses include much less coursework than before, with grades in almost all subjects depending on exams.

Under the original plan, half of other teachers reviews would be linked to how students perform on exams and half on classroom observations.

Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test,» tended to make smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.

The report looked at states» standards on exams and found that some states set much higher bars for students proficiency in particular subjects.

Students in low - income contexts are asked to learn a second set of cultural codes that will be tested on exams normed to the majority population, or the middle class population.

The press was led to believe the Regents pulled back the passing scores on the Common Core English Language Arts and math exams for the Class of 2017 from 75 and 80 to a score of 65 on both exams.

Today, to earn a Regents diploma, students must score sixty - five out of one hundred points on exams in English, global history and geography, US history and geography, a math subject, and a science subject.

Because writing is a big part of Ohio's standardized tests, she hoped that the experience would also enhance their scores on those exams.

This might lead to the conclusion that the achievement gains on both exams were largely generalizable.

Only a fraction of students with disabilities receive accommodations on exams, and accommodations are only permitted if an IEP committee of school personnel requests them.

Since curriculum - based exams assess student performance in specific courses, the teachers of those courses (or course sequences) will inevitably feel responsible for how well their students do on the exams.

As a teacher, I frequently meet students who are used to being spoon - fed concepts and expect those same concepts to be tested and regurgitated on exams.

So far the focus has been mainly on the exams themselves, especially their validity and reliability, and hardly at all on their effects on teaching and curriculum.

The occasion is the triennial release of global scholastic achievement rankings based on exams administered by the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tests students in 65 countries in math, science, and languages.

At an appearance at Lindblom Wednesday, CPS CEO Forrest Claypool didn't answer a question about how the district expected to boost participation on the exams this year.

A former Costano teacher told the paper that a school administrator had encouraged him to cheat on the exams, and a subsequent examination of the students» actual answer sheets revealed an unusually high number of erasure marks where answers had been changed from wrong to right.

When used in classes, clickers typically have either a benign or positive effect on student performance on exams, depending on the method and extent of their use, and they create a more positive and active atmosphere in a large classroom.

This process also creates a constant discussion among School 21 teachers: How can we teach a topic in depth, while still covering all the content on the exams?

Calvary students would thus have to perform in the top 4 percent on exams like the SATII (being in the top 15 percent usually gets you into one of the university campuses).

A large majority of teachers have raised concerns that education reforms with an increased focus on exams are undermining student's health and wellbeing.

The authors infer solely from cost data that states with currently higher test scores on exams such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) should not need significant new resources.

The second one focuses on exams skills and provides some Reading tasks to extend vocab.

When parents get involved with their childrens education ~ they tend to succeed academically achievement ~ and tend to perform better on exams.

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

Suddenly America» s child poverty rate looks almost normal, and certainly can» t explain our lackluster international performance on exams.

Recall that the AP mission is to certify high school students who do well on its exams as having learned the equivalent of an introductory college class.

She completes most of her homework, despite struggling a bit on exams.

Theme questions are popular on all exams.

In both subjects, scores on both exams are at least as strongly correlated with college grades as the SAT, a widely used indicator of college readiness.

Whereas Charlotte Simmons is a brilliant young woman who wastes her mind and is corrupted by the culture of her classmates, Lee Fiora is a mediocre student who is lazy and cheats on her exams.

The test was designed to mirror what the Common Core requires of our students on the exams.»

Last year a record number of pupils from Scotland secured a university place on exams results day, with 28,300 confirming their position on the course they hoped for, but the charity is urging parents and teachers to remind children it is «not the end of the world» if they fail to earn the grades they were hoping for.

YoungMinds stated that the survey results suggest that the current education system is «fundamentally unbalanced», with an «over-emphasis on exams and too little focus on student mental health».

Around 80 per cent of teachers agreed that the focus on exams is becoming «disproportionate to the overall wellbeing of students», the survey suggests.

The focus on exams in schools is being prioritised over the wellbeing of pupils, according to a survey by the charity YoungMinds.