Sentences with phrase «overall number of assessments»

Over half (54 %) of districts in the survey reported that the summative SGO assessments were embedded into the typical testing schedule and did not increase the overall number of assessments given to students.

Not exact matches

Although an advocacy organization may have an incentive to understate the strength of these laws, it is unlikely that any overall downward bias would create problems for our assessment of states relative to one another (and, in fact, these scores have been used in a number of other scholarly studies).

The number of Rochester students who scored proficient on the ELA assessment this year increased at every grade level from three to eight and was up 2 percentage points overall, with 207 more students rated proficient in ELA.

Under McQueen's leadership, Tennessee recently announced the state's highest graduation rate in its history at 89.1 %, best overall ACT at 20.1 — a number that represents all public school students in the state, across the board improvements in the 2nd year of the new state assessment, and a record high number of students taking and attaining credit for early college coursework.

The results have been encouraging; in 2017, most students exceeded one year's growth in their district mathematics assessment both overall and for numbers and operations — the focus of the school improvement work.

In addition to the assessment - based indicators, states have the option to choose from a limited number of measures that can add to the overall picture of how well schools are serving groups of students.

Part of this signal included significantly increasing the emphasis that early literacy assessments have on a school's overall growth and proficiency numbers, in some cases more than doubling its weight on growth and status measures over previous SPFs for that same school.

Just plug in such information as your age, whether you're a smoker or non-smoker and an assessment of your overall health, and the Illustrator will estimate your chances of living to specific ages (80, 85, 90, etc.) or for a given number of years (10, 20, 30, whatever).

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

This result is supported by a new assessment report by a World Meteorological Organization expert group, which projects a decrease globally in the overall number of tropical storms, of between 6 and 34 %, but an increase in the intensity of the storms that do form, of between 2 and 11 %.

In short terms, the Judge rehearsed a number of the significant points in the case, for example, T's mental health, the recording of her allegations and the ABE interview process, any evidence of inconsistency and T's overall reliability, and an assessment of the father's credibility before announcing her conclusion in the following terms:

A number of cases give clear guidance on the proper approach to assessing medical evidence as informing the decision maker's overall assessment of credibility, eg Mibanga v SSHD [2005] EWCA Civ 367, [2005] All ER (D) 307 (Mar) and AM (Angola) v SSHD [2012] EWCA Civ 521, [2012] All ER (D) 169 (Apr)-RRB-.

Among the 5 families who completed the follow - up assessment, there were trends for reductions in the overall number of behavior problems.