Sentences with phrase «ranging from standardized testing»

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It is moving from a system that was almost entirely focused on standardized tests to one that has a much broader range.

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.

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.

«There were various anecdotal reasons why students refused the test, ranging from test anxiety to concerns about this specific standardized assessment,» she said.

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.

API is a numeric score used for school accountability purposes ranging from 200 to 1,000 that summarizes a school's performance on California's standardized tests.

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.

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 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.

My students did take standardized tests and knowing what I do now about how difficult it is to assess teacher quality from those, I would not be surprised if I were to learn that my student's «growth» was probably in some acceptable range.

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.»

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

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.

And UIC - led schools are outperforming comparable CPS schools in measures ranging from freshman on track rates to graduation rates to standardized test scores.

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.