Sentences with phrase «proficiency in any given subject»

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

In Massachusetts, the CPI is a number from 1 to 100 that represents the extent to which all students are progressing toward proficiency in a given subject.

Not exact matches

«What I suggest is that we need to have an expanded schedule to allow schools to do everything — get all students to proficiency, give them a thorough education in other subjects like history, offer a well - rounded education that includes health and art, and create students that have the skills that employers want in the 21st century.»

For starters, the school district's computer couldn't accept SOF's narrative - style report cards, which evaluated students» proficiency in the core competencies rather than giving them traditional numeric grades in individual subjects.

Good grades suggest that states are setting a high proficiency bar — that students must perform at a high level to be deemed proficient in a given subject at their grade level.

«In the United States, most standards - based approaches to educating students use state learning standards to determine academic expectations and define proficiency in a given course, subject area, or grade level.&raquIn the United States, most standards - based approaches to educating students use state learning standards to determine academic expectations and define proficiency in a given course, subject area, or grade level.&raquin a given course, subject area, or grade level.»

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.