Sentences with phrase «on statewide testing»

Equitas Academy's 2012 - 2013 API score: 894 The Academic Performance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewide testing.

And, perhaps most troubling of all, county and city schools, since 2008, have had no more than 31 percent and 47 percent, respectively, of students scoring at or above grade level on statewide testing.

Schools can build on statewide testing with their own «authentic» assessments of student learning, such as portfolios or demonstrations.

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.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

The reporters provide the reader with a host of mostly misleading state - provided test - score data, because the State of New York mis - constructed the proficiency scales on its statewide tests, thereby rendering interpretation of scores over time virtually impossible.

Maine's commissioner of education said last week that his sudden decision to pull the plug on a statewide test stemmed from his belief that questions about suicide were too sensitive a topic for high school juniors.

The 55 urban districts in the study showed more progress in mathematics than in reading on statewide tests.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

With improved educational materials readily available, home schoolers are winning spelling and geography bees, scoring off the charts on statewide tests, and gaining access to elite colleges.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

Given these higher stakes, are you worried about cheating on statewide tests in Indiana?

Ballard's office also cited The Project School's passage rates on statewide tests as a reason for its decision to close the school.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

Bethesda's collaborative efforts transformed student achievement: For the past two years, it has been among the top 10 percent of Georgia's Title I schools, making the most progress in improving the performance of all students on statewide tests.

ATI's ongoing research routinely demonstrates that Galileo assessments demonstrate high reliability, predictive validity, and accuracy in forecasting student performance on statewide tests.

They have some of the city's highest scores on statewide tests, and more than 90 percent of Sci Academy seniors have already been accepted to a four - year college or university.

New Mexico divides all teachers into three categories — group A teachers have scores based on the statewide test (mathematics, English / language arts (ELA)-RRB-, group B teachers (e.g. music or history) do not have a corresponding statewide test, and group C teachers teach grades K - 2.

Former state superintendent Tony Bennett crafted this model with the intention of including metrics beyond a simple pass - fail rate on statewide tests in a school's letter grade.

The present study examined the validity of a teacher observation measure, the Classroom Strategies Scale — Observer Form (CSS), as a predictor of student performance on statewide tests of mathematics

She is intent on making sure every bit of instructional time is dedicated to helping children learn the material that will be covered on the statewide tests that will be administered this spring.

Evidence for academic improvement comes almost exclusively from scores on statewide tests, which assess relatively basic skills that many no - excuses schools target with intensive drilling.

Last year, Desert Trails earned a 1 on a statewide test - score ranking called API, placing the school in California's bottom 10 percent academically.

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Remarkably, 71 percent of students were proficient in reading on statewide tests in 2013 compared with 46 percent of all students in the district.

Citing data from the California Charter Schools Association, the authors argue that charter students generally score better on statewide tests and have higher graduation rates even though it has widely been demonstrated that not all charter schools out - perform all traditional schools.

The median academic domain score is a score out of 60 measuring the performance of the schools on statewide tests.

Last year, Ritz warned that scores on a statewide test would plummet because of changes to the test.

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

State officials look at all of the students who scored the same on statewide tests in a given year.

One analysis of Milwaukee's voucher program in 2013 revealed that only 13 percent of voucher students scored proficient in math and only 11 percent scored proficient in reading on statewide tests.

Not exact matches

This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

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.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

In state Senate races, antipathy toward Common Core education standards and annual state tests cuts across party lines: both Democrats and Republicans find reasons to pile on to statewide criticism.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

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.

Gibson's position on testing puts him closer to the union (which is fighting to keep testing - based evaluations of its members) than many Democrats — including Cuomo — and NYSUT president Karen Magee told the New York Times that Gibson would have a «good chance» at winning it in a statewide run.

About 250 park officers statewide are trained to assist with search and rescues (including on ice), do field sobriety tests, respond to accidents and serve as liaisons with snowmobile clubs that help maintain the trails.

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

The test refusals have continued despite the moratorium on evaluations: This marked the third year of massive statewide boycotts, with the Island at the epicenter.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.