Sentences with phrase «on the test scores of»

To measure the effect on test scores of the retirements resulting from the ERI program, we exploit the fact that teachers with more years of experience were much more likely to be affected by the program.

In The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), we and our colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.

Can one believe that the practices of those millions can be changed for the better by the competition of charter schools (1.5 million children versus 50 million in district schools), by promotion and compensation and dismissal based on test scores of their classes, by the elimination of «last in, first out» layoff rules?

The original evaluation identified, after three years, large positive effects of the voucher opportunity on the test scores of African Americans but not on the test scores of students from other ethnic groups.

The ideal situation to assess the impact of tracking on test scores of different groups of students would be one in which students were assigned to tracking or nontracking schools randomly, and the performance of students could be compared across school types.

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

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

One of the teachers bringing this suit is getting evaluated on the test scores of students who aren't even in her school.»

Washington Post Blog: The Answer Sheet: Lawsuit: Stop evaluating teachers on test scores of students they never taught

The lawsuit contends that teachers» evaluations based on the test scores of students they do not teach or based on subjects they do no teach violate the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

When I look within a three - mile radius, I find no evidence of spillover effects on test scores of students at district schools, positive or negative.

And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers — based on the test scores of the schools they oversee — is a good conversation starter.

The LTT presents a perfect opportunity to fulfill that Strategic Vision by explaining trends in the achievement gap among various populations, and demonstrating the effects on test scores of changing demographics.

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

It requires teachers to be dismissed, retained, promoted, demoted, and paid based primarily on the test scores of their students.

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

Fifty percent of my performance label was based on school test scores (not on the test scores of my homeroom students).

The first study calculates two estimates: one based on the test scores of the teachers» high - performing students and the other based on the scores of their low - performing students.

Tennessee teachers also sued their state officials this month, arguing that most teachers» evaluations are based on the test scores of students they don't actually teach.

It translates to progress reports that ask how much movement on test scores each of those students has made.

Part of Hillyard's own performance evaluation rides on the test scores of the five schools she oversees — including Glenwood.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

Following the lead of Tennessee and Louisiana, policymakers in a growing number of states are evaluating the programs — and even issuing report cards for them — based on the test scores of their graduates» students.

Following Louisiana's lead, policy makers in a growing number of states are evaluating programs based on the test scores of their graduates» students.

At issue in Florida are not the error rates, but the fact that teachers are receiving ratings based on test scores of students or subjects they don't teach.

«These participating teachers have (had evaluations) based on the test scores of students they do not teach or in subjects they do not teach,» said Andy Ford, president of the FEA.

Because math and English test scores are available, reformers have devised bizarre implementation methods in which teachers are assessed on the test scores of students they don't have or subjects they don't teach.

Our preferred models suggest that the combined average effects on test scores of investments in both programs at 2009 funding levels are equivalent to two to four months of instruction in grade 3.

NCLB mandated that states judge schools and districts, and impose punishments, based on test scores of the entire school and district and of subgroups of students: different ethnic groups, English language learners, children living in poverty and students with disabilities.

The many problems with these, such as teachers being evaluated based on entire schools» test scores or on test scores of students they have never taught, have been identified.

And if teachers are undermining accountability they must be doing a pretty poor job of it — we live in a time of unbelievable obsession with standardized testing, and teacher evaluation systems based on test scores of subjects that most teachers don't even teach — and from students they don't even know.

Attain follow - on test scores of 90 % for struggling students by performing stand up instruction on Apprentice Technical Training's most challenging subjects.

The new federal law also broadens the narrow focus on test scores of the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind, by requiring states to create a school accountability system that includes at least one nonacademic indicator.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

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.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

According to people's scores on multiple - choice vocabulary tests, most of us don't reach our peak wordsmith - ing abilities until we're in our late 60s or early 70s.

A study in the «Journal of Individual Differences» found that people who scored higher on IQ tests as children tended to be more curious and open to new ideas as adults.

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

Crowdery's technology is still in beta testing, but the process can be as explicit as asking consumers to vote on a favorite shirt style in hopes of scoring a presale discount if the item ultimately gets made.

After scoring a 760 on his GMAT exam, he spent a couple of years teaching test prep courses for Manhattan GMAT.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

By definition, a car can't exceed a score of 100 on the road test.

The product testing agency on Thursday gave the new, high - performance P85D version of the automaker's Model S a rating of 100 — a perfect score — calling it «the best - performing car that Consumer Reports has ever tested.»

«Those told they'd slept better scored higher on tests of attention and memory than those told they'd slept poorly.»

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

'' [Besides] saving time, there's no real incentive to cheat on these tests because typically it's just to get a certification of «hours» for internal compliance training, so your score doesn't matter, and if you don't pass, you can take it again.

The survey, published today (Dec. 2) by Kaplan Test Prep, found that 48 % of some 288 responding admissions staffers said that a weak score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the biggest application killer.