Sentences with phrase «on statewide standardized test»

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

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.

That system, like many under development around the country, will be based in part on how a teacher's students perform on statewide standardized tests.

For example, California, the country's largest and most financially distressed state, spends less than $ 14 out of its $ 8,955 per - pupil total educational outlay on statewide standardized testing.

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.

Robert Treat students consistently score among the highest of all students in New Jersey on statewide standardized tests.

Not exact matches

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 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.

Todd is also the statewide leader on access to diplomas for special needs students, as well as fixing New York's broken standardized testing system for public school students.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

If California wants to simply identify underperforming schools on the state's dashboard, as its accountability plan suggests, or if Arizona wants to allow schools to use any standardized test that fits their needs rather than a statewide test, as ESSA's pilot option also allows, DOE should move out of the way of these state laboratories.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

Those systems lean heavily on the results of standardized, statewide reading and math tests.

[13] Our outcome of interest is the third or fifth - grade score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)[14] taken in the relevant year between 1999 and 2012, which we standardize statewide at the grade and year level to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

In Massachusetts, «voca tional schools have steadily been increasing and are now exceeding the statewide average on standardized tests.»

The latest study focuses on six Boston schools that, in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements in students» performance in the statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

The law applies a series of sanctions, possibly culminating in closure, to schools where students don't show enough «Adequate Yearly Progress» on statewide, standardized tests.

The report also quantified the use of student performance measures known as «student growth objectives» (SGOs) that were based on more classroom - based assessments and not statewide standardized tests.

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.

Go beyond the boisterous press releases or slick websites, though, and these plans are feeding on a far more negative undercurrent: NCLB's requirement for statewide annual standardized tests for all kids is harmful and wrong.

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 current statewide standardized test, the ISTEP +, is based on the standards Indiana had before the Common Core.

This study found the percentage of students scoring «Proficient or Above» on standardized Language Arts and Mathematics Mississippi Curriculum Tests, Grade 4 Mississippi Writing Assessment Tests, and 5th Grade Mississippi Science Tests was significantly higher at schools participating in the Whole Schools Initiative that had effectively implemented the WSI integration model when compared to student performance statewide and when compared to district level student performance for the school district within which the WSI school was located.

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.

Academically, report card data shows HSA - McKinley Park students meet or exceed performance on standardized tests at about the same rates as statewide averages.

That answer depends on the interpretation of the term assessment — are you counting pop quizzes and spelling bees, essays and multimedia projects, teacher - made and standardized tests, entrance and exit tests, pre-tests and post-tests, interim and benchmark assessments, statewide and national tests, and preparation for the AP exam, SAT, and ACT?

Both the statewide accountability system and Indiana's teacher evaluation law draw on data collected from standardized tests.

Not too long ago, California released its statewide 2012 annual school rankings, listing the top - performing schools in the state, based on the Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated from standardized test results.

Despite this, Hiawatha's scholars, as they are called, do twice as well on state standardized tests as kids in neighboring schools and about as well as students statewide.

Formal Recommendations on Revising Statewide Testing Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in CaliTesting Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in Calitesting in California.

Before 2006, when First People's first came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, less than a quarter of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming's statewide standardized math tests.

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.

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