Sentences with phrase «on standardized test performance»

The Common Core State Standards has led to an increased value on standardized test performance.

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.

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And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

My own children have been subjected to relentless test prep, bribery, teacher - induced guilt trips and even overt falsehoods designed to boost their performance on the standardized test that's linked to school rating / teacher performance.

Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

The kind of teaching that maximizes performance on our current standardized tests can actually be counterproductive.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

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.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

In face of this criticism, Moskowitz has time and again cited the network's high performance on standardized tests compared to traditional district schools.

The centerpiece of the agenda was a statewide teacher evaluation system that would tie half of a teacher's rating to their students» performance on standardized tests.

He also accused the governor of «demonizing» teachers and «moving down the wrong path» on standardized testing, though Cuomo has recently done an about - face on that issue, most notably calling — through his latest reform task force — for a moratorium on linking test results and teacher performance evaluations.

The budget also created a new teacher evaluation system that relies on a mix of in - classroom observation and at least one standardized test to assess performance.

It did, however, note that by its calculations, New York spends more per student than any other state in the country, even as performance on standardized testing continues to lag.

They argued that the fiscally conservative governor, in his effort to tie education funding to performance on standardized testing, has failed to fulfill the 2006 order of the state's highest court and allowed overcrowding and cuts to local schools» budgets.

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

Another 65 percent of voters also did not feel that teacher tenure should be based on student standardized test performance versus 30 percent who did.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

Student performance on standardized tests could soon account for up to half of a teacher's evaluation in New York State.

When Cuomo convinced the legislature to approve a new teacher evaluation system the relies more on standardized tests, his administration said that the State Board of Regents would have very limited power to make any changes including compliance with a November deadline to come up with new performance reviews.

The new state budget includes big changes for teacher performance reviews, which will be redesigned by schools and the New York State Education Department to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

The Chancellor's decision was applauded by the teacher's union, which has opposed the new performance reviews» dependence on the controversial standardized tests.

The new state budget includes big changes for teacher performance reviews, which will be redesigned by schools and the state education department to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized sPerformance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized sperformance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature revised the teacher performance rules as part of the budget, to put more emphasis on standardized testing.

The new law requires that the State Education Department develop new teacher performance reviews, that will be more heavily reliant on controversial standardized tests associated with the new Common Core learning standards.

He wants teacher performance reviews to rely more on standardized test results, and he'd like 100 more charter schools in New York.

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.

A review of the states implementing evaluations shows two central components to conduct and compare teacher evaluations: in - class observation and growth in student performance on assessments, including standardized tests.

Educators across the state are protesting Cuomo's demands, saying they rely too heavily on standardized testing, ignore the challenges of poverty in some districts and put the brunt of poor student performance too squarely on individual teachers.

In a phone interview, Dr. Rosa, 64, said she believed there was too much emphasis on standardized tests as measures of students» and schools» performance.

As part of his plan, Astorino also proposed reducing the reliance on standardized tests for evaluating the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Furthermore, these differences also correlated with one measure of academic achievement — performance on standardized tests.

Generally speaking, AYP is determined by student performance on standardized tests.

Incredibly, the data also indicated that ClariMem ® effectively reversed the equivalent of 9 years of brain aging, based on performance on a standardized cognitive test.

Greater focus on raising student performance on math and reading standardized tests may also lead schools to cut field trips.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

New teacher evaluation systems, meanwhile, judge educators on their students» performance on statewide standardized tests, or the pre - and post-assessments they've devised to determine how much their students have learned that year in their classrooms.

Under these policies, performance on standardized tests was not only made public but was also tied to rewards and sanctions.

The study assessed performance on standardized achievement tests as well as measures of various character strengths.

Meanwhile, a broader backlash against reform, fueled by concerns about over-reliance on standardized tests, the accuracy of new evaluations, and the efficacy of performance - based incentives, has led some states to reverse course.

There are also reasons to believe that subjective retention policies affect students differently than policies that use promotion criteria like performance on standardized tests.

Show Evidence also can be used to assess and archive the student work leading to the ability to collect and analyze student outcomes based on performance not just standardized tests.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.