Sentences with phrase «raw test»

With longer gaps between tests that count for accountability purposes, we're more likely to lean even heavier on raw test scores, measures that are highly correlated with student demographics.

Or whether it's fair to close a school based, even only substantially, on raw test scores?

Several websites provide analysis of raw test scores, and some also collect parental reviews of schools.

In raw test scores, black students lose some ground relative to whites between the fall of kindergarten and the spring of 1st grade.

The graph showed declining raw test scores for the teacher's students over two years.

They have conceded that it would be wrong to measure teachers by raw test scores because some students start so far behind.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

This objection also applies to several popular methods of standardizing raw test scores that fail to account sufficiently for differences in test items — methods like recentering and rescaling to convert scores to a bell - shaped curve, or converting to grade - level equivalents by comparing outcomes with the scores of same - grade students in a nationally representative sample.

But according to Mathematica, policy assessments based on raw test data is extremely misleading — especially because year - to - year comparisons measure different groups of students.

In the process they have to reserve judgment about such things as raw test scores, student ranks, neat and full workbooks, docile students in neat rows and hours of homework.

By limiting the CNLSY data to cohorts born in the same years as the children in our data set, we found raw test - score gaps only half as large as those found in the earlier cohorts of data used by Phillips and remarkably close to those found in our data set.

Ratliff, a Los Angeles school board candidate who was recently elected to the union's House of Representatives, said she frequently reviews raw test scores for concrete information about specific skills her students are struggling with, such as grammar or reading comprehension.

E4E - LA teacher and Teach Plus Policy Fellow Kyle Hunsberger explains his concerns about using raw test scores rather than value - added measures in this Los...

In short, Michelle Rhee and her successor, Kaya Henderson, have presided over a landscape of modest raw test score gains.

It beats the power Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (non-US Exynos edition) in raw tests.

(9) Licensees shall recognize that all items in the case file, other than copies of tests, raw test data, and computer - generated interpretive reports may be brought into the courtroom.

GreatSchools ratings are based on raw test scores, which correlate strongly with socioeconomic variables, as well as test score growth.

Thus, value - added systems that adjust for the unreliability of raw test scores will fail one of the criteria that educators have deemed important for accountability: that they be transparent.

Despite his unhappiness with how school quality was defined in the piece, Stanford's Reardon acknowledged that among parents and policy makers, raw test scores have often been used to label schools good or bad.

I standardize the raw test scores by assigning each student a percentile score, which indicates performance relative to all North Carolina students who took the test in the same grade and year.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

As in math, however, the raw test - score gap in reading widened substantially, to 0.53 standard deviations, by the end of 1st grade.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

Other newspapers throughout the nation have begun filing records requests to obtain value - added or raw test scores.

After reviewing results of the written classroom observation test the instructors of the course said that students» scores seemed lower than they would have expected, but that it was difficult to interpret the raw test scores.

Raw test scores may be intuitive to economists, but educators need additional qualitative information to understand how well they are doing and where they need to go.

Some groups, such as VARC, adjust those raw test scores to control for students» outside factors, such as income or race.

While the state has not yet released official grades from the 2014 - 15 year for any schools with elementary grades, CEO Ben Kleban gave the College Prep governing board a preview of what to expect based on the raw test scores and other data that have been returned.

Shortly after McGhee spoke, the board voted and approved the motion, which specified that the academic component will measure both raw test scores and student growth in reading, math and science, once the state has results from its upcoming new science test.