Sentences with phrase «on test scores»

Teachers have filed suit in a half - dozen states to block complicated new evaluation formulas that in some cases have rated them based on the test scores of students they never taught.

What does a focus on test scores in the name of data driven instruction mean for teachers in certain districts?

How can we reconcile the lack of persistence of impacts on test scores with the later emergence of impacts on important life outcomes?

We find some small differences across charter types, but none of the charter school enrollment effects on test score growth for any cohort were positive among any of the three types examined.

The predictive effects for test scores based on the test scores of other classes are and.

If the public or national government put too much emphasis on test scores, teachers are possibly to teach only for tests.

As with any accountability system, we shouldn't rely on test scores alone.

I do see problems with judging teachers solely on test score gains in reading and math, but we've got to start somewhere.

The extensive focus on test scores as the only measure of student progress is forcing educators to teach to the test.

However, it is not clear that a sole reliance on test scores in teacher recommendations would meet the law's equity goals.

The recently released study of the program examines its effects on test scores for students that have used vouchers for one, two, three, or four years.

Design and provide ongoing, sustained professional development for teachers based on test score data.

For the first three cohorts studied, charter school effects on test score growth were negative and significant.

Those benefits included short - term gains on test scores as well as higher college - going rates and higher early - career earnings.

His team is also expected to continue focusing heavily on test scores as a performance measure, one of the more controversial aspects of his education reforms.

If regulators were to rely primarily on test scores when deciding which programs or schools to shutter and which to expand, they would make some horrible mistakes.

So I return to my proposition: Let's not make high - stakes decisions about schools or programs based on test scores alone.

Teachers are increasingly judged and evaluated on test scores alone.

These schools had fewer than 10 percent of their students scoring at or above national norms and had shown no improvement on test scores while on probation.

Student and school performance has since the late 1990s been expressed with the Academic Performance Index — based exclusively on test scores.

It may be that control group students are in schools that will fare as well or better on test score measures.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

A growing number of studies show a disconnect between short - term progress on test scores and long - term success.

The principal is not nurturing and is focused only on test scores.

The peer - reviewed paper focuses on test scores at public middle schools near a state boundary.

Her evaluation now depends on the test scores of her students as well as the scores of students under the teachers she leads.

Students who use vouchers score significantly higher on test scores than their public school peers - just as they are more tolerant and their parents are more satisfied.

Ironically, just as teachers are set to be judged by test scores for the first time, new principal evaluations will rely less on test score data.

Just a reminder here that schools like this are labeled as «failing» based solely on their test scores by the corporate reform crowd, but these schools are in no way failing.

We see pretty dramatic returns to experience on the order of 15 - 20 percent of a standard deviation on test scores over the first five years.

They also are based on test scores from last fall that reflect learning from the previous school year.

The database contains individual - level information on test scores and background characteristics for all students in grades 3 through 8 in the state's public schools, charter and traditional.

The state rated school and district performance based in part on these test scores allowing parents, taxpayers and others to see how their schools are doing.

I therefore separate the students in my sample by years of age and estimate the effect of start time on test scores separately for each group.

In most cases, that would still leave 70 % of a school's rating dependent on test scores.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

It is also possible that the researchers who raise serious concerns about the emphasis being placed on test score measures have not effectively stated or publicized their objections.

There is just too much riding on the test scores, she says, and no way for schools to avoid the test prep trap.

Hardy accepts that her school, and her tenure as principal, will be evaluated largely on test scores.

You're getting 100 percent on your test scores.

Most of the grade would rely on test scores with added weights for reading achievement and at - risk student performance.

How much emphasis do you believe your higher education institutions put on test scores versus other attributes and accomplishments?

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

She noted that many previous studies have examined the effect of teacher quality on test scores, but few have examined the effect of teacher quality on attendance.

We realized that others were telling the story of the school where we teach — and focusing mainly on test scores and demographics (we're a high - poverty school).

These systems draw on test scores and other quantitative data, reviews of student work, and intensive visits by master educators to rate schools and provide practical guidance on improvement.