Sentences with phrase «on statewide standardized tests»

Instead of looking purely at passage rates, schools will be evaluated based on how many students improved their performance on statewide standardized tests.

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.

The first focuses on statewide standardized test scores and their uses, particularly how test scores are used in statistical models that evaluate the effectiveness of teachers and schools.

If we looked at which schools had the highest absolute performance on statewide standardized tests in 2016 - 17, we would find that many schools follow the socioeconomic trends across Oakland.

Under the deal, 60 percent of a teacher's evaluation will be based on subjective classroom observations by the principal or other school officials, and up to 40 percent will be based on student scores on statewide standardized tests.

Amid renewed allegations of cheating on statewide standardized tests in Texas, the Texas Education Agency is pressing ahead with plans for tighter testing security, while stressing that it uses a high threshold in making charges against schools or school districts that their students cheated on the state's 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.

Participating schools had high concentrations of students receiving free or reduced price lunch (approximately 90 %), minority students (approximately 87 %), and students who scored low on statewide standardized tests.

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

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.

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.

In exchange for this freedom, they generally get less funding than public schools (though they're free to look for private donations, and many do) and have to prove that they are making good on the promises set out in their charters, which often means showing that they improve their students» performance on statewide standardized tests.