Sentences with phrase «performance against the standards»

Another challenge concerns the assessments that the PARCC and SBAC consortia are developing to measure student performance against the standards.

Common standards and tests that evaluate performance against those standards are to be found in most of the countries that are performing better than the United States, whether they be in Europe or Asia.

While Indiana had fine standards on the books, the assessments it has used to track student and school performance against those standards aren't great and the scores needed to pass those tests have been set low.

1) Uniform national standards and tests of student performance against those standards gather broader public backing than do the specific sets of standards and tests known as the Common Core.

You compare students not against each other arbitrarily, but you compare their performances against standards.»

The Office of Technology Assessment, a nonpartisan analytical agency, expressed its concern at a hearing here on the recently released report of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the standards.

Not exact matches

Even more importantly, there's no sway and no confusion when you're talking about performance against previously agreed - upon goals and standards.

I can nitpick on each of our 14 players performance in this game if i want, but I happen to think that overall, obtaining a draw against a title contender playing away, especially playing with 10 men for almost 45 minutes, was not such a bad result after all, not only if the standard is applied to a fragile team such as AFC, but also if it were to be applied to some other «fantastic» team such as for example, Leicester... I can imagine that if we were to loose the game the way Leicester did at the Emirates, many (visitors to this site) would be condemning our players bottlers, chokers instead of hailing them for defending bravely for 20 minutes with 10 men... LOL..

Pinkney and Deters turned in their standard consistent performances with 11 kills each in a 3 - 1 season - opening victory over St. Francis to prove that the Grizzlies are capable of putting the ball down against bigger opponents.

When our Germany international star Mesut Ozil was talking about Chelsea this week however, as reported by the Evening Standard, it was clear that he was saying that the Gunners must try to produce another performance like the one against the Blues earlier in the season which saw us tear them apart and win confortably.

Since their return from injury i have tried to give Welbeck and Wilshire the benefit of the doubt when others have slagged them off for some pretty average displays.Regrettably I am now of the opinion that they will never reach the standards required to make a meaningful contribution towards the revival of Arsenal and along with 3/4 others in the current squad they should be moved on.Their performances against Stoke was the last straw as far as I am concerned.It will be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate shares my views and does not include them in his World Cup squad.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Other noteworthy events included Carlos Salcedo's performance against Borussia Dortmund, where he played as both a right wing - back and center - back, and Guillermo Ochoa's display in Standard Liege's 3 - 1 win over Omar Govea's Royal Excel Mouscron.

We cut the mistakes out [against Bournemouth] and the first half was a very pleasing performance, probably as close as we've come to last season's standards.

Philippe Coutinho — 7.5 A better performance for the Brazilian after a slight blip (by his standards) against Spurs.

In fact, I think that's the perfect way to sum up their current situation, thoroughly enjoying the early euphoria of a couple of stunning results against Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United before some hardhitting reality against two of the Premier League's most consistent sides, with the always title challenging Chelsea handing out a free lesson in how to play the beautiful game as Blackburn provided a much needed reality check that this league is brutal, that half - decent performances in front of your own fans still get severely punished if your own game isn't up to the high standards the Premier League demands.

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's lawsuit against Armor, filed Monday following a series of inmate custody deaths after the vendor's contract began in 2011, noted county officials have never financially penalized Armor for not meeting contract performance standards — many based on U.S. Department of Justice requirements.

Following standard practice in the field, the researchers divided their training data into three sets, sequentially training the algorithm on two of the sets and testing its performance against the third.

The assay — when compared against the performance of the conventional ELISA — has proved to be «up to clinical standards,» according to the researchers, with the added ability of removing the false positives, thereby eliminating the need for repeated testing.

A key strength of the study is that the diagnostic performance was compared against full karyotyping, which is the gold standard for aneuploidy diagnosis.

All TSAT staff are set objectives around pupil progress, teaching standards and professional development, and this is checked against the performance management cycle of meetings that happen throughout the year.

-- state assessments — used for information, not sanctions — that measure performance against new standards with fidelity, including the problem - solving, critical thinking, writing, and research skills they entail, and that are designed to be useful for informing instruction;

The most extensive cross state effort to implement the common core standards is being undertaken by the two state consortia that are developing the assessments to measure student performance against them.

For example, one strategy could require every fourth - grader to write an essay to be scored by trained reviewers against rigorous state standards for writing performance.

Supporters of the common core standards have also been concerned that the base of support could erode when the first results are released from the new assessments designed to measure student performance against them.

In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

Developing a system to measure the expertise and classroom practice of individual teachers against the performance standards is the next step.

That undertaking became steadily more controversial, however, as the standards were implemented and tests were devised to measure student performance against them (see «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» features, Fall 2016).

Instead of comparing students to each other, based on arbitrary timetables, students can be compared against performance standards and benchmarks.

Performance managers should not set targets against all the points of the standards, but rather take a view of the development of their own school leaders in the context of continuous improvement and identify priority areas for the next stage, informed by the standards as a whole.

Current state plans quite properly put local educators on notice about local performance against state standards.

Perhaps in a move to reduce the potential for inconsistent application of A to E grades, the Victorian State Government negotiated to apply the A to E scale not to the relative quality of a student's performance against one year - level standard, but to a student's demonstrated achievement against curriculum standards across year levels.

Ironically, however, it is not clear that these growth models would fulfill the more simplistic federal requirements for adequate yearly progress, which dictate that the performance of students at each grade level be measured against a fixed standard of proficiency.

The purpose of a SLA is to set expectations on the service to be received, enabling the customer to monitor and control the performance received from the provider against mutually agreed standards, such as delivery and response times.

According to the report, school leaders should evaluate teachers at least once a year against performance standards that are precise, detailed, and leave little room for different interpretations by teachers and leaders.

The common core state standards will enable participating states to... develop and implement an assessment system to measure student performance against the common core state standards» (p. 2).

A year ago, Christie, who has tied teacher tenure to performance and crusaded against failing schools, blasted Republicans in Congress for opposing Common Core partly as a «kneejerk reaction» to President Obama's support of the standards.

Alongside the state legislature, they finally settled on new tests that were introduced in 2015 to measure performance against the new standards.

Teachers need to notify their headteacher that they wish to be assessed against the standards and the outcome of performance management reviews will be used to make this assessment.

If traditional districts were measured against the standards within the Performance Framework, dozens of struggling districts would be forced to close.

Develop standards - aligned, measurable, ambitious big goals that will increase student opportunities for achievement; assess and track performance against these goals.

The authors suggest that standard measures of academic performance are biased against non-Asian ethnic minorities and women in quantitative fields.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

Understand how students are performing against school, district, and state performance standards.

«Because the new content standards set higher expectations for students and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised.

«Because the new content standards set higher expectations for students and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised,» Joe Willhoft, executive director of Smarter Balanced, said in a statement.

FAST Reports are instantly available to evaluate student performance against local norms, mastery criterion, and predictions of risk to meet proficiency standards on state tests.

Reports are available to evaluate student performance against local norms, mastery criterion, and predictions of risk to meet proficiency standards on state tests.