Sentences with phrase «on standardized»

Moreover, graduation rates in the district are strikingly low, as is student performance on standardized tests.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

Far too many of our students score in the bottom category on standardized tests, too few are Proficient and Advanced, and our student suspension rate is too high.

Students can receive college credit for such courses if they score high enough on standardized tests.

This is important to know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by scores on standardized tests, significantly affects student achievement.

Today, black and white adults with similar scores on standardized tests earn similar wages.

HFA scores on standardized tests are as much as four times higher than those of other Detroit schools, and 86 percent of the most recent graduated students were accepted at four - year universities.

«I would help schools implement programs that focus on the whole child and create productive members of society, by addressing components of education that can not be measured on standardized tests,» said Cossondra George.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

The correct wording would have been «include how well students progress» on standardized tests.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are ranked by the trend, not the absolute level, of their students» performance on the standardized reading and math tests.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

This game - based approach to math has been linked to significant improvement on standardized tests in schools, but unfortunately it is not available to families in the home.

PDK: «Some states require that teacher evaluations include how well a teacher's students perform on standardized tests.

Very likely, the difference is due to the fact that EdNext refers to «academic progress on state tests,» while PDK refers to how well students «perform on standardized test.»

We're implementing a brand new assessment and accountability system so that we are actually starting to evolve beyond what is just happening on a standardized test.

Today, the success of K - 12 schools is measured primarily by cut - off scores on standardized tests.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

In step four, faculty delve into various forms of student assessment data to identify a learner - centered problem, or problem of understanding common to many students and evident from performance on standardized assessments.

Classroom instruction in these charters frequently appeared to honor the acquisition of basic, fundamental skills exactly the topics and items commonly found on standardized tests — over more cognitively engaging tasks such as arguing, defending, supporting, valuing, or evaluating.

Mostly based on «value added,» a statistical measure of the contribution the teachers make to student achievement on standardized tests.

a broad agreement about their mission and purpose — everyone's there to get high scores on standardized tests, everyone's in agreement about the need for results, and everyone's bought into how these results will be obtained.

In the early grades, an older child will tend to perform better on standardized tests than his younger peers simply by virtue of being older.

In short order, he declared that students whose scores did not reach a certain level on standardized tests would be required to go to summer school and could be held back a year.

A 2011 study by David Figlio and Cassandra Hart of found that Florida's STC program had a small but statistically significant impact on public school performance on standardized math and reading tests.

For the city, Hansen says, the moral of the story was that most parents don't want to move their children from their neighborhood school, no matter how miserable its scores on standardized tests.

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardized tests.

Simply put, a child could be diagnosed with dyslexia if he or she shows an IQ in the «normal» range but falls at or below the 10th percentile on standardized reading tests.

Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher scores on standardized tests if they know the vocabulary of the standards.

Several large systems, including Chicago (beginning in 1996), New York (2004), and Philadelphia (2005), now require students in particular grades to demonstrate a benchmark level of mastery in basic skills on a standardized test before they can be promoted.

Achieving these expectations results in students who score well on standardized tests and go to college.

These students are the fastest growing subgroup in U.S. schools, but they remain among the lowest performing on standardized assessments and lag far behind peers in high school graduation rates.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

Studies reveal a correlation between daylight in school classrooms and the performance of students on standardized tests, and more and more new K - 12 design plans have sought to distribute as much natural light as possible.

«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.»

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

In particular, the report described the relationship between classroom practices, as observed by students, and value - added on the standardized tests.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Virginia is thought to be the first state to propose linking driving privileges to performance on a standardized test.

Last week, in State Tests Don't Make the Grade, a StarrPoints column on standardized testing, I wrote, «Perhaps the fault lies not in the teachers, but in the tests.»

Should teachers be evaluated based on their students» performance on standardized tests?

Feaster - Edison relies heavily on both standardized test scores and Edison's own benchmark assessments to inform and adjust instruction throughout the year.

In fact, on page 24, the report clearly says that the relationship between test prep and value - added on standardized tests is weaker than other observed practices, but does not claim that the relationship is negative:

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.