Sentences with phrase «perform on the state tests»

Spring says teachers» evaluations should not be determined by how students perform on state tests.

To pay companies like K12 more or less depending on how their students perform on state tests or depending on their graduation rates?

In Colorado and other states, teachers» job security will now be tied to how well their students perform on state tests.

With this approach, regardless of the number of points they've earned in a class or how they performed on a state test, all children can feel seen, celebrated, and supported in schools.

Fordham called for requiring all participating students to take state assessments; mandating public disclosure of those results, school by school, except for schools that enroll fewer than ten total students in tested grades; and requiring schools that enroll a substantial number of students to have their eligibility determined by how their students perform on state tests.

These states had the biggest disparities between how their students performed on state tests and how students fared on NAEP, and thus were the guiltiest of giving parents an inflated sense of how well students performed in reading and math.

In plainer words, a teacher's evaluation must be based at least in part on how well her students perform on state tests.

For an interim assessment to produce useful information about how students will perform on state tests, each question needs to be clearly aligned to a standard.

LA School Report just published a district database that for the first time allows parents to compare how students at all of the district's magnet schools and programs performed on state tests...

This was set to be the first year ever that city teachers would be judged, in part, by how well their students performed on state tests, but now, if a teacher's rating is bad, the state test scores won't count, at least for the next two years.

Another district intends to boost pay for teachers who accept leadership positions in their schools and offer bonuses based on how well students perform on state tests.

To see how students at Bancroft's STEAM magnet performed on state tests last year, you would look up Bancroft in the data published here.

A long ignored law in California which stipulates that a teacher's evaluation must be based at least in part on how well her students perform on state tests should help, but due to the teachers unions» hardcore stance against using student performance to measure teacher effectiveness, the conflict to replace LIFO will be a bloody one as well.

Not exact matches

How are kids performing on state and nationwide tests?

The crew spent the overnight hours above the United States performing ETOPS testing on the new Rolls Royce Trent 1000 TEN engine, which will power the 787 - 10.

Both the Bloomingdale and Sparks facilities also house state - of - the - art testing laboratories, where NOW's quality technicians use the latest analytical instrumentation to perform approximately 16,000 tests on ingredients and finished products each month.

As the Pound Report states, «The objective is to improve the efficacy of testing procedures and other anti-doping activities, not merely to rely on having performed a certain number of tests.»

All states require certain screening tests to be performed on newborns, even if they appear healthy.

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

A New York state court is ruling that a new teacher evaluation process can't rely so heavily on how students perform on a few state tests.

And he says drug tests could not be performed on existing state workers.

Two - thirds of the students have not performed adequately on the tests, according to the state education department's scoring system, during the first two years of the exams.

The executive wanted state universities to perform clinical tests on a dietary supplement the company developed.

This study is based on data from six U.S. states that routinely performed toxicological testing on drivers involved in fatal car crashes — California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.

«We only caught a hint (of another form) in the initial tests, and had to rely heavily on theory to speculate about a different state,» said Andrew Wray at New York University, who performed the theoretical calculations.

Shortly after his birth, Austen's mother, Angela, was handed a booklet describing the blood testing that the state wished to perform on her son.

After digesting short literary excerpts, people performed better on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test — a common measure of the ability to judge others» mental states — compared with readers of popular fiction.

On August 28, 2013 Holtec International performed an «Aircraft Crash Test» on a scaled model of a HI - STAR 180 transport / storage cask at the United States Army facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, located in Aberdeen, MarylanOn August 28, 2013 Holtec International performed an «Aircraft Crash Test» on a scaled model of a HI - STAR 180 transport / storage cask at the United States Army facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, located in Aberdeen, Marylanon a scaled model of a HI - STAR 180 transport / storage cask at the United States Army facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, located in Aberdeen, Maryland.

The department of genetics is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of faculty focused on performing basic laboratory and clinical research, providing inpatient and outpatient consultation services, and offering state - of - the - art genetic diagnostic testing.

Both the Bloomingdale and Sparks facilities also house state - of - the - art testing laboratories, where NOW's quality technicians use the latest analytical instrumentation to perform approximately 16,000 tests on ingredients and finished products each month.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

In today's test - driven environment, it is easy for educators to limit our vision to how students perform as a whole on state - mandated tests.

The most controversial reform implemented under Driscoll's watch was requiring that students perform at a certain level on the state's 10th grade test in order to graduate.

Meanwhile, John Bishop highlights a promising innovation, Michigan's college scholarship program for students who perform well on state tests.

The OECD says students in Australia — along with those in New Zealand, Japan, Korea and the United States — performed much better in this assessment than would be expected, based on their scores in the PISA 2015 science, reading and mathematics tests.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

«How do you think students in the United States performed on this international test (PISA) as compared to students in other countries?

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

Based on its own tests and standards, the state claimed in 2009 that over 90 percent of its 4th - grade students were proficient in math, whereas NAEP tests revealed that only 28 percent were performing at a proficient level.

And, while states or localities that perform relatively low on their specific tests know that they could improve, higher performing districts or higher performing states often develop a complacency that has serious side effects.

Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

Very likely, the difference is due to the fact that EdNext refers to «academic progress on state tests,» while PDK refers to how well students «perform on standardized test.»

PDK: «Some states require that teacher evaluations include how well a teacher's students perform on standardized tests.

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Compared with 2000, the proportion of 2003 Blue Ribbon public schools that performed well or in the middle tier on state tests increased, while the number of low - performing schools dropped.

The graph below illustrates how Ohio proposes to raise its targets so that all students perform at the «proficient» level on state tests by 2013 - 14.