Sentences with phrase «on passing standardized tests»

Stephens said that the ability to apply knowledge to real - world situations is missing in many students — an apparent consequence of relaxed standards in the American educational system and a focus in the classroom on passing standardized tests, he said.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

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Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

That we arbitrarily give up on kids who can't — or won't — pass standardized tests and condemn them to the streets, jail and the grave?

Democratic State Senator Terry Gipson is calling on his senate colleagues to pass legislation restricting standardized testing in kindergarten through grade 2.

If passed, it would ban standardized testing on students in Pre-K through 2nd grade.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

They can pass the standardized tests with their eyes closed, so we tell high - ability kids that their job is to sit still and stay quiet while the teacher focuses on low - achievers.

«Another showed that students in Cambridge who passed more fitness tests performed better both on standardized testing as well as in their grades, holding all other variables constant.»

Throughout this process, the district has maintained its scores on Indiana's standardized tests; Lawrence Township's passing scores generally hover around 70 percent and fall within a few percentage points of the state average.

Scope: Compares the percentage of students passing or receiving high marks on standardized state tests in reading, math, writing, and science in various grade levels.

He found a surprisingly large correlation between how well teachers did on this relatively easy test (the pass rate was 97 percent) and their students» achievement on a standardized test.

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

Receiving college credit for a dual enrollment course is dependent on passing the course, effectively eliminating the unnecessary obstacle of having to pass a standardized test.

With the extra support, she passed a mandatory standardized test and even raised her grade - point - average in her senior year to 3.49 on a 4.0 scale, lifting her four - year GPA over the 2.0 required to graduate.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

On the city's standardized tests, the passing rate for charter middle schools was 13 percent higher on averagOn the city's standardized tests, the passing rate for charter middle schools was 13 percent higher on averagon average.

After months of debate, a somewhat water - downed version of the bill passed that places even greater emphasis on standardized testing.

If passed, this will take what was the state's teacher evaluation system requirement that 20 % of an educator's evaluation be based on «locally selected measures of achievement,» to a system whereas teachers» value - added as based on growth on the state's (Common Core) standardized test scores will be set at 50 %.

The elementary schools reached 87 % passing math and 85 % passing reading on standardized tests in the third year of Flippen implementation.

Some states made the standardized tests so easy or set passing scores so low that virtually all students were rated proficient even as they scored much lower on federal exams and showed up for college requiring remedial help.

There is also a flexibility rule that allows students with a minimum 2.75 to still be certified if they achieve a score on the required standardized Praxis test that is at least 10 percent higher than the minimum passing score.

Student scores on Indiana's ISTEP standardized exams were little changed from last year after pass rates tumbled two years ago with an overhaul of the test.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

In 2009, Florida began releasing rankings of education schools based on what percentage of a teacher's students passed the state standardized tests.

VCS students in grades 3 to 11 who regularly engaged with their teachers and the curriculum achieved an 80 % and higher pass rate on their state standardized tests.

Similarly, the development of 21st century skills is measured by percentage of students passing 3 out of 5 core subjects, which, again is only a meaningful goal if we know that core subject classes are rigorous, providing grade level instruction, and leading to high levels of performance on state standardized tests.

d) Download FairTest's infographic [link to infographic] on what's wrong with standardized tests and pass it around.

Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 in an effort to close the achievement gap, placing great emphasis on standardized testing.

When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

Even more astounding, despite the self - selecting and exclusive nature of charters, researcher Myron Orfield found that Chicago's public schools outperform charters on standardized test passing and growth rates in both reading and math, and high school graduation rates.

African American passing rates on state standardized tests were 10 points behind those of white students in reading and 16 points behind in math.

The district is ahead of the curve with regard to the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), creatively leveraging limited resources to help students truly grow individually as opposed to just performing well on standardized tests.

Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision - makers want to fail.

If a student can achieve a proficient score on the state standardized tests (and pass a writing test in many... Read More

Call on state lawmakers and school districts to formulate and pass legislation and policies that allow school employees to provide parents with their opinions on whether students would benefit from exclusion from a state / and or district standardized test and that no adverse action or discipline would be taken against employees who engage in such discussion.

A year after a switch to new standardized tests for public school students caused passing rates to plummet, leaders of both political parties in the New York Legislature on Tuesday called on the state to back away from plans to use those exams to grade teachers.

Call on state policymakers and local school districts to formulate and pass legislation and policies that allow school employees to discuss standardized tests with parents and inform them of their ability to exclude children from state and / or district standardized tests.

The scores are based on factors like how many students are passing state standardized tests.

The report comes as congress works to reauthorize and overhaul No Child Left Behind, and as states countrywide pass laws that link the hiring and firing of teachers to their students» performance on standardized tests.

To the dismay of Gov. David A. Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and various lawmakers, the Legislature failed to pass education reform legislation prior to the Race to the Top application deadline, to lift or increase the state's cap on charter schools and mandate the use of student standardized testing scores to evaluate teachers.

Depending on the state where you work or the employer, you may have to pass a standardized certification test from one of two different certifying institutions.