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New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.
The Coalition for Educational Justice and the UFT have been urging the city since the start of the school year to provide additional help for those students who scored below state standards on the most recent state exams in reading and math.
Yet even with the expansion of the AP program in recent years, only about a third of American students take at least one exam, and less than a quarter pass at least one test with a score of three or higher.
Nevada has imposed steep penalties on Harcourt Educational Measurement for errors in administering statewide exams, and Georgia is poised to do the same, following scoring glitches typical of the kind that have plagued state - sponsored testing programs in recent years.
A new study by REL Northwest has found that high school GPA was better than college entrance exam scores at predicting college course grades for recent Alaska high school graduates from both urban and rural areas.
However, a recent article published in the Albuquerque Journal indicates that, now according to the NMPED, «only three types of test scores are [being] used in the calculation: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers [PARCC], end - of - course exams, and the [state's new] Istation literacy test.»
But only 31 percent of black 10th - graders scored in the higher categories — proficient and advanced — on the most recent math exam.
The district won the Broad Prize for Urban Education in 2013, but scores on state and national exams generally have stagnated in recent years.
The data from the Illinois State Board of Education, obtained under open records laws, are the most recent available that could be linked to college entrance exam scores.
Yet even though the country's scores on international exams are above average, they have remained largely unchanged since the tests were first administered in 2000, and the percentage of students who were at least moderately proficient has decreased slightly in recent years.
On the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, a shocking 55 percent of non-low-income California eighth graders taking the exam failed to score at the proficient level in math.
The most recent study concluded that merely taking an AP class, without also taking the test, had no effect on a student's score on the ACT college entrance exam.
The study is the first to use direct comparison models, using the most recent Forward and ACT exam scores in its evaluations.
In fact, the recent tendency has been to intensify the traditional mode of testing, with higher cut - off scores and more «difficult» exams, without changing the underlying approach.
Despite years of state budget cuts and rising class sizes that now average 30 or more, 83 percent of Laurel Street K - fifth grade students scored at the proficient or higher level on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent scored that high on the state math test.
But on recent state test scores, more than half of all students in grades 3 through 8 scored a Level 3 or 4 on both math and English exams.
Test scores on the most recent Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, administered to students across the state last fall, show that just 34.4 percent of Milwaukee's voucher students scored at the proficient and advanced level in math.
Despite years of state funding cuts and classes that average 30 or more kids apiece, an amazing 83 percent of Laurel Street's students scored at proficient or higher on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent scored that high on the math test.
But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»