Sentences with phrase «put on test scores»

How much emphasis do you believe your higher education institutions put on test scores versus other attributes and accomplishments?

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Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

I am with you on that Pablo, in theory we should have 75 — 80 mill to spend, I wouldn't put Zabaletta in the 2 or 3 quality players, he is decent offensively but plays in a team that rarely has to defend, Moses looks decent doing that at Chelsea, all too often Byram has been exposed by not having any defensive assistance if we sign him will be interesting to see how he is defensively because he will be tested in our team, Batshuayi would be a quality addition but he is still only a reserve for Chelski and I don't think he could do what Costa has for them or for us, imo we would still need another striker to lead the line, maybe Josh King if the rumours are true, what hasn't been mentioned too much is the left wing slots, none of ours are particulary great most of them seem to prefer the right side, if we don't go for Nolito maybe have a punt on Grosicki from Hull, we were interested in him previously and he is a very quick player that can create and score goals.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

Putting a moratorium on the use of test scores in evaluations.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

He called for raising the cap on charter schools, extending tenure from three to five years, putting struggling schools into «receivership» and basing half a teacher's evaluation on student test scores.

In test results released Friday, 38 % of city students scored proficient in English - a jump of nearly eight percentage points from last year that put the city's scores on par with the state overall for the first time.

Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and principal evaluations.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Already, the board has put in place a four - year moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

In collaboration with Madra Learning, an online homework and learning assessment platform, Casselman and Atwood put together practice materials that would present a realistic test, and asked students to predict their scores on the practice test before taking it.

Put yourself to the test, then use the strategies here to improve your score on any (or all!)

The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

Putting a finger on exactly which policy changes produced the test - score improvements is remarkably difficult, because the state adopted a wide array of policies that may have had a beneficial effect.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

Mr. Wilhoit warned another seven districts that their test scores put them on...

On average, the 4th - grade math and reading test scores of KIPP late entrants were 0.15 to 0.16 standard deviations above the district average, putting them 0.19 standard deviations above the scores of students who enrolled in the normal intake grade.

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

As school systems add more and more curricula for teachers to cover — and put more and more emphasis on standardized test scores — many teacher say they have less time to be creative.

She looked at Finland and South Korea, countries with higher test scores, and they put less emphasis on sports than do American schools.

As the authors put it, «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

All students at South Side take advanced English, but principal Carol Burris fears more students in New York will be put in lower - quality remedial classes because of poor test scores on the new Common Core tests.

It also required states to put new systems in place that use student scores on Common Core tests to evaluate teachers and principals.

In truth, as Jon Schnur, the original architect of Obama's Race to the Top initiative puts it, «No serious reformer says accountability should just be based on test scores.

In the work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students on a path to better lives or simply the result of charter schools» effectiveness in «teaching to the test» for the MCAS.

Because using test scores as a way to gauge teacher effectiveness is new and largely untested, it is important that Oregon proceed in a thoughtful, measured way that continues to put most emphasis on how well teachers use research - proven methods of engaging and teaching all students, he said.

By expanding the notion of student success, and moving it beyond a metric governed by test scores, authentic assessment puts the emphasis on student understanding.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, and Pennsylvania — put on transcripts and honors diplomas students» scores on state tests taken in the 10th and 11th grades, but they do not use them as a prerequisite for graduation.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

Critics such as the New Jersey Education Association — the state's largest teachers union — question whether the state Department of Education is putting too much weight on test scores as well as whether it's moving too fast toward implementing the complicated overhaul.

House lawmakers adopted a bill putting a one - year pause on revamping Michigan's teacher evaluation system Thursday, and required that when the new system takes effect, student testing makes up half of teachers» scores.

Several Senate Republicans questioned the need to steer limited School Aid Fund money to a federally induced process that puts more pressure on how well students score on a few high - stakes tests.

«This, I think, is destructive, not productive,» he said, in part because he believes the governor's proposal would put too much emphasis on standardized - test scores in determining teacher effectiveness.

* The trustees» decision put too much weight on 2013 test scores.

In a recent column in The Washington Post education reporter Valerie Strauss noted that the test score flap is beside the point and put her finger on the big issue: What did Michelle Rhee accomplish during her 3 and 1/2 years as Chancellor?

We are just starting our journey on this new path and during our initial professional development days we decided to put instructional strategies, coaching and test scores aside, and started working on beliefs, bias and culture.

With a strong trend of falling test scores, a major teacher retention problem, and a huge fundraising gap, one would presume that Rocketship's expansion plans would be put on hold.

Guggenheim unfairly puts a large emphasis on the role of charter schools, showing that they are intensely effective when it comes to test scores and college acceptance rates when they are only 17 % superior in math test scores.

Put on hold the policy push to use student test scores to evaluate teachers and principals, unless and until data demonstrate the likelihood that such an evaluation approach will positively, not negatively, affect student learning and its accuracy morally justifies its use.

SB322, introduced by Senator Mark Leno, looks to align rules governing charter student suspension, expulsions, admissions and departures by putting them on par with traditional school districts, and seeks to address the frequent accusation that charters screen students during admission to admit only students with high test scores.

The bill would have, among other things, enhanced the emphasis the state's new accountability system would put on student test scores.

It's not fair to put a grade on school performance when it's unclear how dependable the test scores are.

New York has slowly begun to listen to parents by not putting test scores on students» permanent records and not using tests as major determinants of whether students go to the next grade.

When we are evaluating a new curriculum or new training program for teachers, if we are not looking at the indices of school climate, then we are missing a huge part of the picture and we are putting undue emphasis on the things that we do count, such as test scores.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincescores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sinceScores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

The Danielson Teacher Evaluation Model which is used by many states, has caused Danielson herself to have to come out and state not to put her name on evaluating teachers over student test scores... Why??

If that's the case, why does Rocketship put so much emphasis on homework and test scores, neither of which are research based?

The task force itself may recommend decoupling test scores from evaluations or putting in place some kind of moratorium on teacher evaluations, a move that would please many teachers and administrators.