They took English as a second language classes with us, progressed into academic classes, and have now completed all their credits and are poised to
pass state proficiency tests to graduate.
The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers is mobilizing its ranks to tutor high school seniors who have not
passed the state proficiency test required for graduation.
Some teachers are not required to assign homework as long as their classes meet minimal requirements and
pass the state proficiency test.
Meanwhile, just one in four Newark high school students
passed state proficiency tests in reading and math.
Not exact matches
Currently, seven
states use the National Evaluation System's
tests, 27 use the National Teachers Exam, 43 ask new teachers to
pass basic skills
tests, and 32 require teachers to demonstrate
proficiency in the subjects they teach.
Because each
state selects its own
testing system and sets its own
passing scores, there is no direct way to compare the
proficiency levels established by one
state against the others.
State requires that 75 percent of 9th graders in each school pass the High School Proficiency Test... Test scores for all four regular high schools are considerably below the state require
State requires that 75 percent of 9th graders in each school
pass the High School
Proficiency Test...
Test scores for all four regular high schools are considerably below the
state require
state requirement.
The scores used to determine whether students demonstrated
proficiency on the
test were set too low, resulting in unexpectedly high
passing rates for the
state's elementary and middle school students.
To help address this challenge, the President called on
states to require all new teachers of math and science to
pass challenging
tests of math or science knowledge and teaching
proficiency.
Like other public school students in Michigan, HFA students must
pass the
state's
proficiency test, so they needed competence in core areas.
The impact of the exit exam policy in Massachusetts is worth noting, especially since the
proficiency threshold for
passing the
state test is one of the highest in the United
States.
That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «
proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to
pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.
The
passing scores for the substitute
tests were the same ones used in 2010 when the
state transitioned into a new alternate assessment process for students who had failed the High School
Proficiency Assessment.
Administrators and teachers were concerned, for example, because they did not know when the
state «s high school
proficiency test would begin
testing for content taught in Algebra II, and what would happen to students who did n`t
pass the
test.
States are raising their expectations for student «
proficiency» on
tests of math and English / language arts, and making their
tests tougher to
pass.
Additionally, admittance into the program will be conditional upon successful enrollment into Relay GSE and
passing all required
state exams (
Test of Academic
Proficiency (TAP), Learning Behavior Specialist I, and Special Education General Curriculum) by specific deadlines.
My son attends P.S. 289 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a chronically struggling school where just one in four children are
passing the
state's math and English Language Arts
proficiency tests.
Some
states, such as New York and Illinois, manipulated the
passing scores on the
tests by lowering the definition of
proficiency needed in order to demonstrate progress.
The Illinois
State Board of Education allows applicants to use their ACT / SAT score in lieu of
passing the
Test of Academic
Proficiency (TAP) for admission.
Another irony omitted by Brill about Mapleton is that Johnston will soon become a
State Senator who gets a law
passed tying teacher evaluations to
test scores while at his own school the scores were terrible with, for example, 11 percent
proficiency in math in Johnston's final year as principal there.
Those who
pass the
test receive a Certificate of
Proficiency from the
State Board of Education, which is equal by law to a California high school diploma.
When New York
State made its standardized English and math
tests tougher to
pass this year, causing
proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the
tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.
This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math
proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple
pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing
state targets for
test scores and graduation rates.
In the
state's administration of high - school
proficiency tests this year in English, Central High School's
passing rate rose to 69 % from 37 %.
The
state does not require aspiring teachers to
pass a
test of academic
proficiency, nor does the
state require a minimum GPA for admission to teacher preparation programs.
The so - called group of «
state education leaders» also voted to define the «
passing mark» on the Common Core
tests so that 38 percent to 44 percent of the elementary school children will «meet the
proficiency mark» in English / language arts, and only 32 percent to 39 percent will do so in math.
The student, who
passed the
state's standardized PAWS (
Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students)
test in fractions, could find the lowest common denominator in order to add fractions, «invert and multiply» to divide them, and reduce a fraction to choose the right multiple - choice answer.
Received commendation for all students earning
passing scores on
state - mandated
proficiency test in mathematics.
Accomplishments Statement: Dramatically increased
pass rate of eighth - grade students from 67 percent to a record high of 93 percent on
state proficiency testing.