Sentences with phrase «other than test scores»

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

We are implementing a true school improvement process that will be the model for future years, but what we see developing is lack of necessary info (other than test scores) on our previous 4 years.

As plans roll in, policymakers, advocates, and other stakeholders have their eye on certain policies, including how states expand their classification indicators to include measures other than test scores and graduation rates.

ESSA encouraged states to experiment with broader measures for school accountability; the regulations insisted that anything other than test scores would be an afterthought.

The 90 percent goal is a key element in a 387 - page ESSA plan the Illinois State Board of Education submitted last month to the federal government, outlining how students of all backgrounds will be assessed and grow academically, as well as how schools will be rated under myriad factors other than test scores.

• Congress, in passing the Every Student Succeeds Act, also is requiring that states use factors other than test scores to determine which schools must receive state assistance.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Furthermore, in considering indicators other than test scores, warning signs appear for American schools.

Indiana education officials disagree with Opt Out organizers» assessment, saying they've changed the guidelines of the state's school letter grading system to consider figures other than test scores alone.

They complain that the letter grades oversimplify student success or shortfalls, increase pressure to pay attention to tests, ignore school quality factors other than test scores, and demoralize teachers and parents.

«After all,» he says, «parents make the choice to enroll their child in school of choice often for reasons other than test scores.»

Particularly intriguing was the discussion about using methods other than test scores to determine whether students are succeeding, said... read more

First, the benefits of attending a private school are greatest for outcomes other than test scores — in particular, the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school and enroll in college.

Author Bio: Deming's work is broadly in the economics of education, with a focus on the impact of policies and interventions on outcomes other than test scores.

New York education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure school success and failure based on factors other than test scores.

Not exact matches

The company has produced a stellar sedan — Consumer Reports scored it higher than any other car it has ever tested — and Musk's achievements justify accolades: He co-founded PayPal and has made billions; SpaceX has made multiple missions to the International Space Station.

It's the first thing, other than standardized GMAT test scores, an admissions officer will look at.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

Religion is the reason our test scores are lower than other countries.

This is why our test scores are lower than other nations, keeping people ignorant with their noses in a bible.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

«We need, rather than a competitive system, pitting schools against each other over test scores, we need a system that embraces all children.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Sure I knew that on average, black Africans score lower on intelligence tests than white Americans, who score lower on intelligence tests than Asians, who score lower on intelligence tests than some other Caucasians: Ashkenazi Jews.

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

Especially children in the lowest motor performance third had poorer reading and arithmetic test scores than children in the other thirds.

A recent study for the company found that British workers» IQ test scores drop temporarily by an average of 10 points when juggling phones, e-mails, and other electronic messages — more of an IQ drop than occurs after smoking marijuana or losing a night's sleep.

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

Children with the mutation tend to be more restless than other youngsters and to score higher on tests of novelty - seeking and risk - taking, all traits that might have pushed those with the variant to explore new frontiers.

It also showed that some of us are better at this than others, and that women on average score better on this test than men.

In a study of structural brain connectivity led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA, those participants with anorexia nervosa who scored lowest on a test measuring their ability to form insight had more connective abnormalities than other patients in brain regions linked to error detection and conflict monitoring as well as self - reflection.

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

Dried plums scored significantly higher than any other fresh or dried fruit or vegetable that was tested, according to «The Color Code,» a book about the benefits of colorful foods.

The researchers found that participants who had the GG variation scored significantly higher on the empathy tests than those who had either of the other two variations.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

Those in their seventies nonetheless scored higher than participants in any other age range on tests of vocabulary, a key component of crystallized knowledge.

That average score was significantly higher than in 24 other countries, including France and French - speaking Belgium, as well as New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Malta, which tested in English.

And it seems to be working: In spring 2007, Enota students scored higher in math on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test (CRCT, Georgia's annual standardized exam) than any other school in the district.

These days, he's jumping into a new research project based in Texas and Massachusetts that looks at the impact of high - stakes testing on outcomes other than the actual test scores.

New York City public schools have lower graduation rates and test scores than other New York schools.

Some teachers provided more information than others, but the essentials of the student's productivity and accomplishments that week — including information about homework completion, test and project scores, major upcoming assignments, and classroom behavior — were related with consistent clarity.