Sentences with phrase «on statewide tests»

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

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

Both the initial and scaled up cohorts show increases in science content understanding and process skills over their peers, and significantly higher pass rates on the statewide test.

Indeed, schools that score high on statewide tests receive high evaluations from those surveyed.

During the 2009 - 10 school year, only 65 percent of students were proficient in reading and just 40 percent were proficient in math on statewide tests.

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

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

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.

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

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.»

In his State of the State address, he noted that while low percentages of students scored well on statewide tests, high percentages of teachers were rated effective.

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.

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 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.

Students at the first easily exceeded Virginia's academic standards 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.

On statewide tests last spring, the students at Rainier Prep, which is in South Seattle but within Highline School District boundaries, outperformed students at neighboring schools, in the district and statewide.

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

School Improvement Bottom line: Interventions for the bottom 5 percent of schools as measured on the statewide testing.

Predictive validity of the classroom strategies scale - observer form on statewide testing scores: an initial investigation.

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.

One such policy would require every student in the state to score proficiently on statewide tests, where fewer than half of students actually did last year.

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.

Discussions focused on how to present data differently or asked teachers to predict the percentage of students who might fall into various performance categories on the statewide test — with no reflection on how to change instruction to boost achievement.

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

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

Academic Performance Index (API) scores are based on statewide testing and are determined by the California Department of Education.

During the 2009 - 10 school year, only 32 percent of Rose Ferrero Elementary School students were proficient in English language arts, and just 40 percent were proficient in math on statewide tests.

Benchmarks can also be designed and analyzed in ways that allow the data to be used both in tracking student progress toward and mastery of standards and in forecasting performance on statewide tests.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's important to understand the changes because — while the new grading system has been controversial and criticized — state officials say the growth model puts a higher premium on closing the socioeconomic achievement gap and tracking individual students» performance 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.

Dale Chu, assistant superintendent at the Indiana Department of Education, says the new growth model corrects flaws in the old system, which allowed schools with relatively low passage rates on statewide tests to still earn A's and B's.