Sentences with phrase «raising student test scores»

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).

Charter schools in Indiana are among the nation's best at raising student test scores when compared with other public schools, a Stanford University study showed.

Although research shows that BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom, BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70 Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of BTR «would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.»

Our so - called «shopping - mall» high schools were predicated on offering a vast college style menu of courses; our teachers tend to be focused on raising student test scores; and metal detectors and police officers characterize many urban high schools.

Consistent with a Roy model of occupational choice, teachers entering the profession during recessions are significantly more effective in raising student test scores.

According to our calculations, raising student test scores in this country up to the level in Canada would dramatically increase economic growth.

Proven effective in raising student test scores, testGEAR online test prep courses for English language arts, math, science and social studies, level the playing field so every student gets the practice they need to achieve test excellence on their state high school exit exams.

Teachers who enter New York City schools through alternative pathways such as Teach For America and the city's Teaching Fellows program are as effective as their traditionally certified counterparts in raising student test scores in mathematics and reading, a report says.

The improvement in teacher performance from before to after evaluation is larger for teachers who received relatively low TES scores, teachers whose TES scores improved the most during the TES year, and especially for teachers who were relatively ineffective in raising student test scores prior to TES.

Teachers entering the profession during recessions — and those entering when unemployment rates were high — were significantly more effective in raising student test scores than teachers entering at other times.

This effect is similar in size to those found in evaluations of primary - school inputs» impacts on postsecondary outcomes, such as being assigned to a teacher who is particularly effective in raising student test scores.

They show that the schools that are most effective in raising student test scores do so in spite of the strength of the underlying relationship between math achievement and fluid cognitive skills.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

But federal officials admit that the new partnership programs are only one step in training better teachers and raising student test scores.

31 Cookbooks for kids have fun, healthful recipes; parents sign contracts agreeing to put their children to bed earlier; serving breakfast to everyone raised students test scores; nutrition lessons that can be woven through the curriculum.

Commentary on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]

To receive this designation a teacher must have demonstrated the ability to raise student test scores.

The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.

Teachers were pressured to raise student test scores, or face penalties.

Pokes at teachers to raise student test scores, and setting up some new schools for a few students won't do the deed.

Today, educators view federal actions as unreasonably imposing penalties on schools for failing to raise student test scores to prescribed levels.

They also expressed frustration over escalating job demands to raise student test scores, serve breakfast in the classroom and submit to a new teacher evaluation system that many complained they had no voice in shaping.

These — and more — initiatives are helping the district raise student test scores above state and national averages.

Teacher Performance Pay Alone Does Not Raise Student Test Scores — New Vanderbilt Study Finds, Vanderbilt - Peabody News, Melanie Moran, September 21, 2010

The Madison School Board had been expected to vote June 30 on whether to spend $ 273,000 over three years on software whose developers say features algorithms that can predict which prospective teachers are likely to raise student test scores.

The organization might be more likely to place its recruits in somewhat less disadvantaged schools, where they are no more effective in raising their students test scores than their colleagues.

The only reliable way to raise student test scores in the United States to the level of Finland would be to raise the employment rate among the parents of students in the US and thereby lower the child poverty rate in the US.

Coupled with the continued testing and accountability fetish are dangerous provisions that will serve to diminish the quality of the teaching workforce in favor of a competitive teacher preparation market, whose graduates» worth will be measured by their ability to raise student test scores, and little else.

Enough oxygen has been sucked out of the air about whether Michelle Rhee really raised student test scores through the roof when she taught briefly at a Baltimore school a few decades ago.

RTI should not be a program to raise student test scores, but rather a process to realize students» hopes and dreams.

«One factor reported in almost every story is the discouragement teachers feel from a reform movement that is increasing pressure to raise student test scores, while reducing support,» it states.

Not exact matches

What he found was that some teachers were reliably able to raise their students» standardized - test scores year after year.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get those students to college and raise their future wages than were the much celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get their students to college and raise their future wages than were the much - celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

I also thought that his time - goals for raising test scores for the middle school students were unrealistic.

Cuomo and lawmakers approve stricter rules raising the portion of teachers» evaluations based on student test scores to approximately 50 percent.

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.

Companies have reported that skylights and windows enhance worker productivity and sales, and some studies suggest that daylight raises students» test scores.

«Unfortunately, there is simply no evidence that efforts to raise test scores will provide poor, minority, and bilingual students with the kind of high quality education that their more affluent counterparts receive,» said Mindy L. Kornhaber, the volume's co-editor.

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

Performance incentives may cause schools and teachers to redirect their efforts toward the least costly ways of raising test scores, at the expense of actions that do not boost scores but may be important for students» long - term welfare.

Our research sought to examine whether schools that have demonstrated success in raising test scores also boost students» fluid cognitive skills — either as a byproduct or perhaps as a principal pathway for improvements in test scores.

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

Furthermore, studies in Texas and elsewhere have found that some schools raised their published test scores by retaining low - performing students in 9th grade, by classifying them as eligible for special education (or otherwise exempting them from the exam), and even by encouraging them to drop out.

Successful schools have demonstrated their ability to dramatically increase crystallized knowledge and thereby raise test scores, improving other important student outcomes in the process.

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