Sentences with phrase «on standardized tests for»

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.

Many schools use student scores on standardized tests for making decisions in terms of grouping and class placement as well as other generalizations about the student.

MARYLAND»S plunge in scores on standardized tests for elementary and middle school students has unsettled a state that, as a national leader in education, had become accustomed to yearly increases in student performance.

I saw how bad a bad education can be, with teachers cheating on standardized tests for their kids and where 5th graders could not read.

These schools had a few things in common: Scores on standardized tests for reading and math were far below the city averages.

The United States has 50 distinct states, which means there are 50 distinct definitions of «proficient» on standardized tests for students.

These include substantial spending to boost student achievement in urban schools, networks of charter schools as alternatives in urban public districts, and academic benchmarks on standardized tests for schools as well as students.

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.

The authors also investigate whether high - value - added teachers have benefited by being assigned students who would have made greater gains on standardized tests for unobserved reasons (such as family factors that can not be gleaned even from tax returns).

A list of vocabulary and terminology often seen on standardized tests for Grade 1 - 3.

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.

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

EW: Why do you think achievement gaps persist on some standardized tests for minority and female students?

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

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

It's an important issue and one that gets to the heart of the debate on standardized testing for accountability.

(Sizer, a friend to this publication, co-authored a piece with his wife, Nancy, on the misguided emphasis on standardized testing for the July 2008 issue of Common - Place.)

We support the ban on standardized testing for children in grades 2 and younger.

Not exact matches

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

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.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

For example, just six Jolly Rancher candies handed out as a classroom reward have almost 6 teaspoons of added sugar, while one Capri Sun juice pouch and five hard peppermint candies given to «boost energy» on standardized testing days contain almost 8 teaspoons.

A 2009 study shows that homeschoolers are, on average, in the 84th percentile for all subjects on standardized tests.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

And yet the problem with trying to put numbers on non-cognitive qualities is that we don't have measures for grit or self - control that are as reliable as the standardized tests are for cognitive skills.

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.

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.

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).

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

For example, research has found homeschoolers generally score 15 to 30 percentile points above public school students on standardized tests and they're achieving above average scores on the ACT and SAT tests.

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.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a permanent extension of mayoral control for city schools and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approach toward standardized testing and push to make it easier for the state to takeover struggling schools.

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.

«It's a major victory,» said Bob Schaeffer, a leading national advocate for limits on standardized testing.

«We're going to work to, no pun intended, educate my colleagues on the importance of not using a standardized test as the Holy Grail for evaluating kids,» Tedisco said.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

The move clashes with Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's policy on the statewide test given to students in grades 3 through 8 on April 5 - 7 for the English standardized test and April 13 - 15 for the math exam.

«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.»

Astorino, the Republican candidate for governor last year, announced on Tuesday that he was opting his children out of this week's standardized tests on English Language Arts.

For example, in the current state budget, Cuomo and lawmakers enacted amendments to the Board of Regents» implementation of the Common Core, specifically prohibiting students» standardized test scores from being included on their permanent records or used in promotion decisions.

One detail that is still «in flux,» Wagner said, is whether the education department will be required to design an additional standardized test for use in the evaluation system; the Cuomo administration said on Sunday that would be included in the budget.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also called on banning standardized testing for students in pre-K through second grade during his budget address Tuesday.

Still NYSUT has continue to fight for a moratorium for teachers on the consequences from standardized testing they say was created from poor implementation of the Common Core.