Sentences with phrase «on standardized language»

At Union County Teams Charter School, one of the city's five charter operators, fifty percent of students attained proficiency on standardized language arts tests last spring.

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Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

The quality of standardized tests and the English language proficiency of students also need to be considered, Rumore said, as well as how to evaluate teachers on the academic performance of special education students.

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

«We have focused efforts for children who are deaf or hard of hearing on obtaining a language level that is often considered in the normal or average range on standardized assessments,» says Jareen Meinzen - Derr, PhD, an epidemiologist at Cincinnati Children's and lead author of a new study.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

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.

What isn't represented in that statistic, says doctoral student Maria Martiniello, is that — for English - language learners — success on the math section of a standardized test may have little to do with numbers and more to do with words.

Students in «50 - 50» language - immersion schools, in which students spend half of their day learning in a nonnative language, perform as well as, or better than, students in monolingual schools on standardized tests, and these benefits extend to English - language learners as well as native English speakers (Gómez, Freeman, and Freeman, 2005; Palmer, 2009; Thomas and Collier, 2002).

Our study is based on student - level data from Chile's national standardized test, Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (Educational Quality Measurement System — SIMCE), which assesses students in grades 4, 8, and 10 in language, mathematics, history and geography, and natural sciences.

The impact on gains in language and literacy will be examined using standardized measures of language and reading administered at the fall and spring of the academic year.

Students participating in arts - integrated lessons show increased language and math scores on standardized tests and improved engagement, motivation, and sense of community (Smithrim and Upitis, 2005).

Because Maine's standardized tests focus heavily on mathematics and language skills, Salm said, middle school students would start taking their core courses every day instead of every other day as they have done in the past.

First - year scores on the new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards showed that 34 percent of California's students met achievement targets in math, and 44 percent met achievement targets in English language arts.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The technocratic approach to accountability requires that all schools are judged according to uniform metrics, therefore the technocrats rely heavily (indeed, almost exclusively) on standardized test scores, particularly in math and language arts.

In one study soon to be published in an education policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in the study.

On the 2015 Smarter Balanced standardized tests, 57 percent of Alliance juniors met or exceeded the English language arts standards, compared to 48 percent for juniors at district schools, and 28 percent met or exceeded the math standards, compared to 20 percent at district schools.

The plan still includes tracking performance on annual standardized tests in grade 3 - 8 and in specific high school courses, measuring how well non-native English speakers are learning the language, and breaking down student performance by subgroups such as ethnicity, economic status, and students with disabilities.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

It is also important that we make these investments in a way that supports smart, effective assessments and reduces over-testing, including language requiring states to limit classroom time spent on statewide standardized testing.

Tip of the Hat to union watchdog and critic Mike Antonucci for noting that, on the final day of the 2014 Representative Assembly, NEA members approved yet another change to the evaluation language, this time making it abundantly clear that standardized tests can never be used.

The teachers» questions indicated that, on the standardized reading assessment, they wanted 9th grade vocabulary and comprehension subskill results disaggregated for each of the 10th grade English language arts course sections so teachers would have a profile of students» reading ability in their current classes.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the State Board of Education are using multiple cues to send a uniform message: Parents shouldn't compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are, they say, more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards.

California has identified English learners based on how well they do on the language development test but has left it up to districts and students» teachers to also weigh a mix of factors, including teacher judgment, scores on other standardized academic tests and parent consultations.

The No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) narrow, regimented approach to accountability led to reduced attention for subjects other than English language arts and math, overreliance on standardized testing, and less focus on meeting students» all - around needs.

On the 2015 Smarter Balanced standardized tests, 14 percent of Grape Street students met or exceeded the English language arts test standard and 13 percent met or exceeded the math standard, compared to 33 percent for the district as a whole in English and 25 percent for the district in math.

IMPACT was designed to control for variables like the class's income level and English - language proficiency, and scores teachers on two major factors: classroom skill, as determined by multiple evaluations, and results, based on students» improvement on standardized tests.

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

Critics have pounced on some of the language, which has been used by corporate reformers to support their agenda of emphasizing standardized tests as a way to hold educators, students and schools accountable, as well as expanding school choice through charters.

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Houston Elementary fits the profile of a struggling school: Just 12 percent of students in third, fourth and fifth grade last year met expectations on the districtwide standardized math test, and 6 percent met expectations in English language arts.

Considering language barriers and special education needs are two of the three biggest factors in determining success on standardized tests, it is unclear why Commissioner Pryor or Superintendent Kishimoto would think the Jumoke Academy is the best entity to take over the Milner School.

[Starred review] Miller, a sixth - grade language arts and social studies teacher and blogger, has enabled students of many different backgrounds to enjoy reading and to be good at it; her students regularly score high on the Texas standardized tests.

The current, high - stakes, standardized testing regiment places more value on three of the CCSS pillars (reading, writing, and language), and it appears to devalue the fourth (speaking & listening).

I would love to hear your thoughts on any other ways in which these artistic programs can be incorporated into more modern, standardized curriculums for language arts and math.

The failure of most charter schools to fully embrace English - language learners draws into question the stellar results many of these schools achieve on state standardized tests.

The improvements Anderson cited were based on her own school rating criteria,» (but) based on state standardized test scores, Newark children had declined in proficiency since her arrival, in math in all tested grades, and in language arts in all but two.»

This language that mandates standardized education held accountable by testing goes on for many pages.

The Portland, Oregon, teachers» union's new contract «bars the use of student performance on standardized tests as a basis for involuntary transfers, layoffs, placement on the salary schedule, and / or disciplinary language.»

Yet Rafe Esquith's diverse fifth - grade students overcome language barriers and nonexistent funds to consistently score in the top five to 10 percent of the country in standardized tests and most go on to attend our most prestigious colleges and universities.

However, the Courant editorial board should be especially sensitive to the fact that there are people out there who have figured out how to game the system, while there are significant challenges facing those who are trying to teach math and science — in English — to non-English speaking students who must then turn around and take standardized tests on those subjects in a language in which they are not proficient.

For the second year in a row, LA Unified's independent charter schools outperformed the district's traditional schools on California's standardized math and English language arts (ELA) tests, according to data released Monday by the California Charter Schools Association.

Limited Reliability: Many factors can influence standardized test scores, including variations in test makeup, whether a student «tests well,» language and cultural factors and how a student happens to feel on testing day.

To create the listing, Newsweek and its research partner, Westat to First, considered public high schools» proficiency rates on standardized math and language arts tests to create an achievement index for each school.

The nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which fights the misuse of government - mandated standardized tests, says on its website that the average student takes 112 tests between kindergarten and 12th grade and that the assessments «are frequently used in ways that do not reflect the abilities of students of color, English language learners, children with disabilities, and low - income youth.»

On state standardized tests 48 % of students were proficient in language arts and 67 % were proficient in math.

On the state's standardized assessment (PARCC), students showed the highest growth in the entire state of Colorado for math, and the highest growth among Denver elementary schools in English language arts.

Since poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the demographics that have the greatest impact on standardized test scores, perhaps these charts and the CTMirror article will remind the media and public officials that next time Jumoke claims that schools like theirs are such a success, and schools like Milner are such failures, they will look deeper into the different populations schools serve.