Sentences with phrase «rated on standardized tests»

High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates.

Proficiency rates on standardized tests, as NCLB showed, often revealed more about the makeup of a school's student body than what the school was doing to improve their education.

They do not want teachers to be rated on their standardized test scores, or replaced by untrained recent college graduates, a la Teach for America.

The Democratic Assembly Speaker, for example, said that «he's always been troubled that teachers are rated on standardized test scores,» more specifically noting: «I don't think any single teacher that I've talked to would shirk away from being held accountable... [b] ut if they're going to be held accountable, they want to be held accountable for things that... reflect their actual work.»

In Washington, D.C., 52 schools — a little under a third of schools in the school district — have been flagged at least once in the past three years because of unusually high erasure rates on standardized tests.

ESSA requires states to set a long - term goal and shorter - term, interim goals — which must in some way address proficiency rates on standardized tests, English - language proficiency, graduation rates, and achievement gaps — but states will operationalize the specific standards and metrics of the goals themselves.72

The federal policy of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) implemented goals for proficiency rates on standardized tests and stringent consequences for not meeting those goals (Sajnanji et al. 2014, 207).

Not exact matches

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

And, high schools that emphasize athletic participation and success are associated with higher scores on standardized tests and higher graduation rates.

My own children have been subjected to relentless test prep, bribery, teacher - induced guilt trips and even overt falsehoods designed to boost their performance on the standardized test that's linked to school rating / teacher performance.

Chicago teachers don't like the hot new trend of rating teachers by how much their students improve on standardized tests.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

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.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

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.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

The centerpiece of the agenda was a statewide teacher evaluation system that would tie half of a teacher's rating to their students» performance on standardized tests.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

The mass granting of waivers to delay the new teacher rating system comes as political leaders, including President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are shifting away from an emphasis on standardized testing.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today tore into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to base public school teachers» ratings and retention on standardized testing.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

Flanagan said his colleagues «have a deep and abiding concern» about Cuomo's original proposal for amending the evaluation system, which would have increased the ratings» reliance on standardized testing to 50 percent.

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

«College and Career Ready» indicators: Many states already include AP, IB, ACT, and SAT achievement in their high school rating systems, and we heartily endorse all of these of these measures, especially those tied to achievement on AP / IB tests, which are precisely the sort of high - quality assessments that critics of dumbed - down standardized tests have long called for.

Far too many of our students score in the bottom category on standardized tests, too few are Proficient and Advanced, and our student suspension rate is too high.

Moreover, graduation rates in the district are strikingly low, as is student performance on standardized tests.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

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.

But those rating sites are based primarily on student proficiency rates on annual standardized tests in reading and math.

He found a surprisingly large correlation between how well teachers did on this relatively easy test (the pass rate was 97 percent) and their students» achievement on a standardized test.

Featured prominently are two pieces of information that may be of particular interest to families with children: a score of 1 - 10 based on recent standardized test results, and «community ratings» that ostensibly come from current and former students and their families.

Report cards would rate programs by their outcomes, such as graduates» impacts on student performance on standardized tests, rather than program characteristics like curriculum and faculty credentials.

Compare past and present data on physical altercations, suspension rates and incidents, racial disparities in school discipline, standardized test scores, and truancy.

The Times used a statistical approach known as value - added analysis, which rates teachers based on their students» progress on standardized tests from year to year.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; 2015) requires states to broaden school accountability beyond achievement on standardized tests and high school graduation rates.

Beyond the student achievement on standardized tests, almost 1/3 of Ariel graduates test out of Algebra before their freshman year — a major achievement considering the dire statistics around math competency and graduation rates in typical public schools.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

To designate which schools need extra funding and attention, most states have created a summative ranking, combining schools» performance on various indicators — high school graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, performance on standardized math and reading tests — into a single number or letter grade.

Last year only about 40 % of students scored proficient or above in reading on the state standardized test, but 99.5 % of teachers are rated satisfactory.