Sentences with phrase «on the standardized tests make»

After all, performance tasks and constructed responses are the basis of classroom instruction, and reflecting the norm of educational activity on standardized tests makes basic educational sense.

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Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

At school, there is growing pressure on teachers to make their classes achieve certain thresholds on standardized tests.

Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

There are too many problems with standardized tests — how they are constructed, the baggage students bring into the testing room from their regular lives, etc. — to make any serious decisions based on their score of a single test.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a permanent extension of mayoral control for city schools and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approach toward standardized testing and push to make it easier for the state to takeover struggling schools.

Although Rise schools made improvement on a number of metrics, the schools are still posting low proficiency on standardized tests.

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

New scrutiny (and more than a little scorn) was placed on the state's standardized tests after the now - infamous pineapple question made its way onto an English exam.

The bill reflects an unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers who see the Common Core Learning Standards as a federal intrusion on local decision - making and Democratic lawmakers who oppose the use of standardized tests to sanction teachers and schools.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

When Cuomo convinced the legislature to approve a new teacher evaluation system the relies more on standardized tests, his administration said that the State Board of Regents would have very limited power to make any changes including compliance with a November deadline to come up with new performance reviews.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

Cuomo has told lawmakers that they must accept education policy changes — including adding authorization for 100 new charter schools and making teacher evaluations more dependent on standardized tests — in order for him to agree to give the state's schools more money.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

Sadly, many of them never make the connection between mind and body, and just keep sinking into those self - defeating thoughts as they worry about how they will measure up on the next standardized test.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Knowing that this and related subjects make up about a quarter of the math content on California's standardized assessments, Medina used released test questions in this first phase.

«But what education looks like, to be truly prepared for college, probably is not the routinized learning that makes many of these schools, including us, really successful on standardized tests.

Under these policies, performance on standardized tests was not only made public but was also tied to rewards and sanctions.

Last week, in State Tests Don't Make the Grade, a StarrPoints column on standardized testing, I wrote, «Perhaps the fault lies not in the teachers, but in the tests.&rTests Don't Make the Grade, a StarrPoints column on standardized testing, I wrote, «Perhaps the fault lies not in the teachers, but in the tests.&rtests.»

Mostly based on «value added,» a statistical measure of the contribution the teachers make to student achievement on standardized tests.

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectiveness.

She notes that teachers are busy preparing students for the writing found on state standardized tests, making it hard to squeeze playwriting in.

Measuring student growth has been made somewhat easier by recent advances in the tracking of student performance on standardized tests over time.

Give Congress the ninth grade Stanford 9, and make the results public, and the discourse on standardized testing will change in a day.»

Some innovation schools have made remarkable progress, but as a group, they have not performed nearly as well as charter schools on standardized tests, according to two separate studies.

With a better understanding of why it is so inane — and destructive — to evaluate schools using students» scores on the wrong species of standardized tests, you can persuade anyone who'll listen that policy makers need to make better choices.

Standardized testing has its place, but there is no way a single test, on a single day, should be used to make life decisions for children, and that's what's happening in too many states.

Although the school still ranks as «low achieving,» students have made progress on standardized test scores, according to O'Blines.

That said, standardized tests obviously don't measure the myriad other ways children need to develop to be contributing members of society, and we need to make sure that schools don't overly focus on core subjects and fail to educate the whole child.

The authors also investigate whether high - value - added teachers have benefited by being assigned students who would have made greater gains on standardized tests for unobserved reasons (such as family factors that can not be gleaned even from tax returns).

While thinking they were listening to a local FM station to determine what makes a good commerical ~ the DJ gave a shout out ~ congratulating my class and the students at the school where I work for their hard work on Florida's standardized test ~ the FCAT.

Attending a Boston charter school makes special education students 1.4 times more likely to score proficient or higher on their standardized tests, resulting in a 30 percent reduction of the special education achievement gap.

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

And then we asked Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, which supports the use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, to make an argument for why kids shouldn't opt out of tests.

Among the report's recommendations for reducing undue pressure on high - school students are making standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice, raising awareness of overloading on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and prioritizing quality, not quantity, of extracurricular activities.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

Project - based learning and standardized tests don't mix The Hechinger Report This article recently made the rounds on social media — it focuses on PBL schools around Philadelphia and highlights the various alternative ways they measure student learning.

NYSUT's board also withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as implemented and interpreted in New York state until SED makes major course corrections to its failed implementation plan and supports a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences from standardized testing.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

The new system, which requires test - takers to sit at computer terminals and answer questions electronically, is likely to revolutionize the whole standardized - testing field, making current paper - and - pencil methods obsolete, those working on the idea believe.