Sentences with phrase «range of standardized tests»

Our clinicians use a wide range of standardized tests, to help us compile information regarding an individual's emotional, social and behavioral patterns, as well as cognitive skills, executive functioning abilities, and other factors that might be impacting your everyday functioning.

Students were also given a range of standardized tests assessing reading comprehension, word reading fluency, and vocabulary.

Not exact matches

NSF International is a global independent organization that writes standards and tests and certifies products for the water, food, health sciences and consumer goods industries to minimize adverse health effects and protect the environment as well as offering a range of standardized and proprietary methods of measuring sustainability for organizations, products, processes, supply chains and services.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

Topics ranged from the use of standardized testing and school co-location, to school closures and the recent gridlock between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the UFT over teacher evaluations.

His sleep quality improved by 87 percent, measured by a standardized test, and although the sleep quality had dropped at a 12 - week follow - up, it remained in the «good quality of sleep» range, according to the study.

Figure 1b shows the changes in standardized test scores, across the full range of student performance, that can be attributed reasonably to teacher and school performance and to decisions about how the school allocates resources among students.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Standardized tests hit a huge range of depth of knowledge or cognitive levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Though tests (especially standardized tests) may be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word assessment, comprehensive assessment encompasses a wide range of methods for evaluating a child's social and emotional and academic abilities.

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

It is important to remember that performance on standardized tests is not a complete indication of the full range of a child's academic abilities.

To be sure, scores on standardized tests do not represent the full range of potential charter - school spillover effects.

Schools must use a range of assessment tools, not standardized tests alone, to measure students» «authentic» achievement levels, a new report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals concludes.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

Encourage Higher Order Thinking Standardized tests hit a huge range of depth of knowledge or cognitive levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

The website offers an overview of performance and detailed information on a range of indicators of school climate and conditions, success in preparing students for college and career opportunities and achievement on standardized tests — all broken down by a dozen student groups, including low - income students, English learners, students with disabilities and other racial and ethnic groups, to highlight disparities in achievement.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

The teachers were introduced to a range of identification procedures including above - level testing, the use of standardized achievement tests, and a range of teacher and parent nomination checklists.

In a guest editorial in Educational Leadership 20 years ago (April 1989), Art Costa suggested five approaches to «reassessing assessment»: (1) reestablish the school as the locus of accountability; (2) expand the range and variety of the assessment techniques used; (3) systematize this variety of assessment procedures by developing schoolwide plans for collection and use of information; (4) reeducate legislators, parents, board members, and the community to help them understand that standardized test scores are inadequate indicators of the quality of schools, teachers, and students; and (5) remind ourselves that the purpose of evaluation is to enable students to evaluate themselves.

Including these measures along with standardized testing would not only encourage teachers to teach a wide range of subjects well, but would also accomplish Presidents Obama's goal to make all children college ready.

1) Teaching a range of student sessions based on qualifications and experience including Standardized Test Prep, Traditional Academic Subjects, and Learning Efficiency curriculum

1) Teaching a range of student sessions based on qualifications and experience including Learning Efficiency curriculum, Standardized Test Prep, and Traditional Academic Subjects

When asked what should determine teacher pay, 86 percent said a teacher's education and training should be either the most important or an important factor, followed by 77 percent who said their students» achievement and progress on a range of measures including standardized tests, classroom observations and parent feedback; 77 percent said whether the teacher is at a low - performing school where students need the most help; 64 percent who said students» achievement and progress on standardized tests; and 57 percent who said seniority in the number of years of classroom teaching experience.

Whether your state uses PARCC, SBAC or its own state standards, the common core - inspired standardized test can create a flurry of activity ranging from adjusted school schedules to last minute study sessions, not to mention all of the logistical issues.

A large percentage of students in inner - city urban school districts are SELs and perform in the low and far below basic range on standardized achievement tests.

There are several things that might help to explain why this is happening — ranging from our overzealous focus on standardized testing and curricula to our lack of experiential and project - based learning pathways for students,» writes a Gallop.com blogger.

The spokesperson for the Superintendents has repeatedly joined in Malloy's claim that teachers must be held accountable for their students standardized test scores — despite the fact that test scores are driven by wide range of factors far beyond the teachers» control.

The ESEA Flexibility initiative has encouraged states to shift away from high school accountability systems based solely on standardized testing to ones that incorporate a wider range of college and career readiness indicators.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

Third, in one of the best and most well - respected studies we have on this to date, Papay (2010)[in his Different tests, different answers: The stability of teacher value - added estimates across outcome measures study] found that value - added estimates WIDELY range across different standardized tests given to the same students at the same time.

Part of that number (ranging from 20 % to 40 %) will be derived from how well students perform on standardized tests.

Standardized tests play a critical role in validating local assessments and giving a broad view of the limited range of student outcomes they intend to measure.

Many observers (see, for example, Anson et al. 1991, Becker and Hedges 1992, Haynes et al. 1992, Joyner 1990, and Comer 1988) have found that students improve in a whole range of areas — self - efficacy, relationships with peers and adults, general mental health, achievement on standardized tests, and classroom grades.

Parents Across America is pleased to stand with our nation's schoolteachers in efforts to improve education for all children — efforts that range from the issues raised in the Chicago teachers» strike to the Seattle teachers» boycott of wasteful standardized tests.

Shael Polakow - Suransky, chief academic officer of the city's Department of Education, said the assessments were designed to be more rigorous and wide - ranging than traditional standardized tests.

It's generally true that schools consider a wide range of factors in admission, and standardized - test scores become more important if they are very low or if schools have other reservations or considerations about the student.

The need for benchmarking exists because testing methods employed by researchers in the solar - fuels research field are far from standardized (different light sources, electrolyte solutions, pH ranges, etc.), making it difficult to cross-compare the performance of different materials, and more difficult still to determine which materials are truly the most promising.

The majority of children from divorced families score within the Average range on standardized tests, and function well on measures of psychological, social and behavioral adjustment.