Sentences with phrase «people about test scores»

«You can't clobber people about test scores and then say, «Let's collaborate.»

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And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

About ten percent of people have a calcium score, this is a test that takes thirty seconds, you hold your breath.

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

With all the media chatter about test scores, merit pay, failing schools, and teacher quality, it's sometimes easy for those outside the school system to forget that it's people — just everyday people with a calling for education — who make up that system.

Educating people who have spent years behind bars is just as much about compassion and humanity as it is about effective study habits and good test scores, say their counselors and teachers.

Talking about test scores to people who don't think test scores are important is not a winning strategy.

In other words, whatever the limitations of standardized tests may be, test - based value - added scores do, in fact, provide valuable information about the things most people care most about.

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

Description: If people in your community are concerned about upcoming test scores associated with the Common Core and what they mean (or what people will decide they mean to serve their own purposes), they should read this article from Education Weekly about the tests frequently called the «Nation's Report Card,» the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).

«When people talk about their experience with a really good teacher, they're not talking about test scores,» said Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

When such test scores are reported via press and media outlets, more than just test scores, hierarchical rankings of test scores, and the like are to be reported, given the people of Vermont more holistic understandings about schools in their state.

Standardized test scores become the thing that people talk about and the focus of staff meetings, class instruction, and water cooler con - versations.

A lot of people talk about the value of formative assessment, but Carol Ann Tomlinson points out that, too often, it is reduced to a mechanism for raising end - of - year - test scores when it should be an ongoing exchange between a teacher and his or her students designed to help students grow.

I worry about people just focusing on that number and getting that number up, when it's not about moving the needle on the test score.

And I've walked into lower - income schools around the country where test scores are posted right in the front entryway and the message is very clear: That we care about you as a person and everything, but what really matters is the score that you post in April.

What's needed, he said, is for parents to understand that test scores track so closely with a person's background — their parents» education level and income — that they say little about the quality of a school.

This isn't the traditional, Kirkpatrick - style learning data most people think about, like post-workshop evaluations and test scores.

«A lot of people think performance is all about tested skills and so there's been a lot of money put into programs aimed at improving student test scores — but what we find is that improvements in attendance in the middle grades are associated with better high school outcomes than improving test scores,» said Allensworth.

Mr. Bruni tossed 27 words about respecting teachers into the mix while calling on them to «partner» with people like Mr. Klein who want to diminish their workplace protections and offer pay for increasing standardized test scores while completely ignoring issues like persistent and rising poverty.

Or yell at people (Chris Christie), or make up facts (Stefan Pryor), or denigrate parents (Arne Duncan), or brag about taping the mouths of children shut (Michelle Rhee), or lie about test scores.

It is a strange world we live in where from the day you are born you are taught by the people around you to compete in grades, tests, SAT scores, GPA, jobs, positions, salary, etc and yet NO ONE talks to you about Net Worth.

By comparison, a person's previous Big Five scores are about 70 to 80 percent accurate in predicting their scores when they retake the test.