A zero will be awarded when a student's response does not
reach a standard described by the level descriptors
Not exact matches
In and of themselves, academic
standards merely
describe the end point to be
reached and the major stops en route.
The term «proficiency» is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be «proficient» under state
standards by 2014 — a goal that has been universally
described as impossible to
reach.
Marzano and Kendall (1996) draw a distinction between content
standards, which should
describe the goals for individual student achievement, and curriculum
standards, which should provide supplemental information that contributes to helping students
reach these goals.
Canadian courts have sometimes
described undeferential reasonableness review as «disguised correctness», cases in which a court says it is applying a reasonableness
standard but in fact performs its own analysis of the law and the facts to
reach an independent conclusion that it labels «reasonable» or «unreasonable».