Sentences with phrase «prior state achievement tests»
While the PARCC and SBAC tests have not yet been released, both consortia are planning several developments, discussed throughout this report, that would represent improvements over prior state achievement tests.
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A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.
When researchers examined the prior achievement - test scores of students transferring to charter schools, they found that those scores were near or below the local district or state average.
Prior to joining SAIC in 2014, the pass rates on the state achievement tests were 62 % and 60 %, for English and Math respectively.
The assistant superintendent cited above noted that when the state made a significant change to its annual test, teachers whose classes had high prior achievement saw their value - added go up relative to other teachers, and teachers whose classes had low prior achievement saw their value - added go down.