Sentences with phrase «on national exams»

After years of improved performance on the national exams, the city saw across - the - board declines.

As scores on international assessment have dropped, grades on national exams have risen.

It allows students to earn college credit in 38 subjects, if they take a rigorous class in high school and score high enough on a national exam afterwards.

Similarly, a 2017 study of voucher students in Washington, D.C. showed voucher recipients did significantly worse on a national exam of math skills and fell a bit behind in reading.

The state agreed to have researchers at Harvard University analyze the scores and compare them with results on national exams and Regents tests, the subject exams that high school students are required to take for graduation.

The data help explain the disconnect between the relatively high pass rates on many state tests and the low scores on the national exams, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The report in question, authored by Arizona State University researchers Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, purported to examine student - performance trends on national exams in states where legislators have attached «high stakes» to test scores.

And DCPS has caught up to the middle of the pack of other urban school districts at the fourth - grade level on the national exams.

For the first time, schools could be given an overall rating from «outstanding» to «inadequate», with fears that teachers will also be forced to focus on national exam targets.

Kentucky students continued to be mediocre on national exams.

The state scores poorly on national exams.

Student Achievement Criteria regarding graduation rates, job placement rates, and pass rates on the national exam.

There are 80 questions on the National Exam and 40 questions on the Virginia exam.

West Hartford students consistently score near the top on the Connecticut Mastery Tests, joining the likes of Avon and Greenwich students with over 79 percent attaining proficiency or higher on national exams.

California's poor students performed worse on a national exam than needy kids from all but one other state, according to results released this week by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Instead, Sawhill argues that reforms should first provide larger grants for those who achieve academic benchmarks and then phase in a «gradual denial of assistance to, say, the bottom - scoring 20 percent of applicants» on a national exam.

California's poor students performed worse on a national exam than needy kids from all but one other state, according to results released this week by the National Center for Education...