Sentences with phrase «on student test scores»

And the state recently refused to include a teacher evaluation system based on student test scores in its application for a waiver from the mandates of No Child Left Behind laws.

Yet research shows little positive effect on student test scores.

The researchers assessed teacher quality by looking at value - added measures of teacher impact on student test scores between the 2000 — 01 and 2008 — 09 school years.

It earned a C from the state based on student test scores in 2015, with an overall proficiency rate of 65 percent, and failed to meet state targets for student growth.

The reason, she says, is that her marks were based in part on student test scores.

He's transformed the way educators are evaluated, putting much more emphasis on student test scores as a measure of effective teaching.

Teachers see states and districts implement policies that largely base their performance evaluations on student test scores.

In particular, they've noticed that teachers and others have expressed strong reservations about any evaluation system that relies too heavily on student test scores.

Only one indicator focuses on student test scores; the others cover a range of processes and structures related to student performance and to internal and external support for student learning.

Their evaluations will now be based 50 % on observations rather than the previous reliance on student test scores.

The changes placed greater emphasis on student test scores as a component of evaluations and established financial penalties for any school districts that did not comply.

While the jury is still out on the effects of these programs on student test scores, there is significant evidence that they positively influence how far students continue in their schooling.

This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores.

One teacher asked for more details about a complex algorithm the state will use to measure a teacher's effect on student test score growth known as value - added measurement.

As part of the 2015 state budget lawmakers voted to create the new teacher evaluation system that places a greater emphasis on student test scores when evaluating the job performance of teachers and principals.

Some say it's unfair to base teacher personnel decisions on student test scores.

In 2000, the release of scores so close to the election date and the media coverage that followed may have primed voters to evaluate candidates on student test scores.

Our focus of attention on student test scores has been effective for learning and achievement.

A 2004 study established the positive effect of even modest increases in family income on student test scores.

However, this research is based entirely on student test scores.

Across the country, evaluating teachers partly based on student test scores remains very controversial.

From these data they calculate estimated effects of the respective responsibilities on student test scores.

This study examines the impact of school closures on student test scores and attendance rates.

Recent studies using lottery data — that is, comparing applicants who gained a seat in a charter school versus those who were turned away — show positive impacts on student test scores.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.

A school's overall score is based in part on student test scores.

But many also say they are uncomfortable with the emphasis on student test scores.

But the association is disappointed that the new application allows districts» educator evaluation systems to base more than 50 percent of an educator's effectiveness rating on student test scores.

The Student Success Act, adopted in 2011, established a value - added formula for judging teacher performance and relies on student test scores from statewide assessments as the primary measure.

Joining the ASA and others, the American Educational Research Association recently declared that it is almost impossible to disentangle this tiny teacher effect on student test scores from other in - school and out - of - school factors.

New laws requiring that teacher evaluations be based partly on student test scores further stoked anxieties, and a growing number of parents, balking at what they view as an oppressive testing culture, have opted their children out of standardized tests altogether.

Plans that rely solely on student test scores have the most opponents, including many parents, who scorn «teaching to the test,» in which students are drilled to increase their test scores rather than taught to understand the underlying material and learning skills to last a lifetime.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

Value - added goes deeper than grading schools on student test scores by looking at how individual teachers and schools as a whole contribute to improvements in the test scores.

Because DoDEA is funded through the Defense Department rather than the Education Department, it is exempt from the federal No Child Left Behind Law, which laid out escalating sanctions for schools and districts that fail to show adequate progress on student test scores.

But Ladd says: «Evaluations that place heavy weight on student test scores are likely to do more harm than good.»

This study presents evidence on whether NCLB has influenced student achievement based on an analysis of state - level panel data on student test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In cities and suburbs from Pennsylvania to Colorado to Arizona, charters and traditional public schools are locked in fierce competition - for students, for funding and for their very survival, with outcomes often hinging on student test scores.

This year, for example, 34 school districts in Illinois will begin evaluating teachers based in part on student test scores for the first time.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

While the state is moving toward a more robust and comprehensive accountability system instead of relying mostly on student test scores, CORE says its breakdown uses more parameters to measure a school's performance.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

Now, this is all within a pretty limited context of thinking about teacher performance in terms of value - added on student test scores, and that could be missing a lot about what makes a teacher great.

Most states have systems that assign a fixed value to each part of the evaluation.1 For example, 50 percent might be based on principal observations, 35 percent on student test scores and 15 percent on student surveys.

This paper analyzes households» response to the introduction of intra-district school choice and examines the impact of this choice on student test scores in Pinellas County Schools, one of the largest school districts in the United States.

One statute requires that only reverse seniority to be considered in times of layoffs, rather that measures of teacher effectiveness that depend on student test scores.

«Evaluation of the Effect of Tennessee's Achievement School District on Student Test Scores.»

Under his reform plan, Mr. Cuomo is suggesting that 50 percent of teacher assessments be based on student test scores instead of the current 20 percent.