Sentences with phrase «on standardized testing data»

The current list is based on standardized testing data from the era of No Child Left Behind, a federal law that graded schools heavily on math and reading scores.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

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To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

On the subject of altering the current mandates, including increased standardized testing, Common Core curriculum and the especially controversial data sharing, Tkaczyk said she is certain that these topics will be hotly debated during this legislative session.

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.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

The companies should be required to then forward these instructional data, along with test scores, subscores on specific components of the test, and student demographic information, to the state in a standardized format.

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

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.

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.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

We lack systematic data on the amount of time students nationwide spend taking standardized tests, nor do we know how much would be optimal.

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.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high - stakes standardized tests.

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

SGPs calculate how a student's performance on a standardized test compares to the performance of all students who received the same score in the previous year (or who have the same score history in cases with multiple years of data).

No standardized test will provide you with quality data on these questions.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

Compare past and present data on physical altercations, suspension rates and incidents, racial disparities in school discipline, standardized test scores, and truancy.

From standardized testing to common formative assessments, we have an expansive amount of data on student ability.

«It's a mistake to draw firm conclusions from a single data point, especially when students, parents and educators want the conversation... to go far beyond labeling them with a score based on unproven and disruptive standardized tests,» she said.

An analysis of national and metropolitan data on public school populations and state standardized test scores for 84,077 schools in 2010 and 2011 reveals that:

After analyzing a truly staggering amount of data, the researchers conclude that teacher effectiveness can be measured by using «value - added» analysis of student achievement growth on standardized tests.

If the American public understood that the very concept of education was being disfigured into a mechanism to apply standardized testing and sort their children into data points on a normal curve, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

It may not be popular or politically expedient, but annual, statewide standardized testing, and yes — even accountability and consequences based on that data — at least deserve a defense.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

Summary data also show that Noble students perform extremely well on standardized tests.

Our data also allow us to examine the impact of race matching on student performance on standardized math and reading tests.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

The recent ubiquity of standardized test scores has provided new data on just how poorly some schools are performing — particularly schools filled with lower - income and minority students, whose parents make up an important Democratic voting base.

The most controversial of them include what is known as value - added models1 that use data from standardized tests of students as part of the overall measure of the effect that a teacher has on student achievement.

Currently the primary focus of accountability systems, using standardized tests, is to provide data on student and school performance so as to sort, rate, and rank the performance of students, schools, and districts.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

We use student assessment and demographic data to predict how students would do on standardized tests under the guidance of «average» teachers.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students from consequences for student test scores on a standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.

Rather than leaning on standardized tests plus a handful of other measures, we included 34 unique measures — a combination of performance assessments, administrative data, and student and teacher surveys.

In August, the Los Angeles Times was the subject of intense criticism and praise for its series that included value - added scores for individual teachers based on years of standardized test data — a project that newspapers in New York City now want to replicate.

The academy is a K - 8 school where fewer than half the students scored proficient or above on standardized math and reading tests in 2014 - 2015, the most recent year for which state data are available.

Speakers opposed to the state's new public education policies whipped an audience of hundreds into a furor at Comsewogue High School on March 29, 2014 as Opt - Out supporters, preaching from the stage in the auditorium, vowed to «starve the beast» — calling on parents to have their children skip the rigorous standardized tests and deprive the school system of the data upon which the system depends.

Examples of outcome data that are also appropriate and necessary to assess teacher effectiveness are students» individual growth and progress as measured on valid and reliable standardized instruments, teacher made tests that aligned with the curriculum, student performance demonstrations in a variety of media, and portfolios of student work.