Sentences with phrase «reports on test score»

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

Results from a new report on test scores show the nation's students making modest gains in math and science in recent years, while failing to significantly increase their reading and writing performance.

That's clear from the district's annual report on test scores, teaching strategies and efforts to help struggling students.

Not exact matches

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

The product testing agency on Thursday gave the new, high - performance P85D version of the automaker's Model S a rating of 100 — a perfect score — calling it «the best - performing car that Consumer Reports has ever tested.»

Most notably, a Wharton professor, Adam Grant, who in his own research has reported a lack of correlation between scores on tests of emotional intelligence and business results.

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Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

Duckworth was a co-author on a paper published last year that compared self - reporting on grit, self - control and conscientiousness with actual test scores and behavior data of students at 32 Boston schools.

Test percentile scores commonly reported on most standardized assessments a child takes in school.

This includes their report cards, standardized test scores, and any disciplinary records on file.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

Any indicator that does not score 10/10 on the report card means more needs to be done (the scores are not like a test result where a lower score is good enough for a pass).

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

The NY Post says the teachers union «broke» the governor, thanks to reports that he plans to abandon the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

Cuomo's task force on academic standards and testing expects to hand in its much anticipated report this month, amid a continuing push by teachers unions to end the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

7:15 pm: Juan asks DioGuardi: The NYC Department of Education is poised to release to the public in the coming weeks Teacher Data Reports, which are based on student scores on state tests.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

The New York Daily News reports on our poll that found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.

That report's recommendations, many of which were adopted into state law and regulations, included a ban on state testing for students before third grade and a restriction against including scores from new Common Core tests on students» permanent records.

The New York Daily News blog reports on StudentsFirstNY's recent poll that found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

The governor's Common Core Task Force unveiled the plan in its final report, which recommends a moratorium on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores until the 2019 - 20 school year in order to «avoid the errors caused by the prior flawed implementation,» according to an official press release.

WBFO»S Eileen Buckley reports on reaction to low test scores in Buffalo with school leaders and other local officials.

«More than 150 colleges and universities got failing scores on an annual test of their financial stability by the U.S. Department of Education in results, released this year, that date from 2011,» The Hechinger Report article adds.

After controlling for factors known to influence brain volume and cognitive test scores, such as age and gender, the researchers found that a higher self - reported frequency of game playing was significantly associated with greater brain volume in several regions involved in Alzheimer's disease (such as the hippocampus) and with higher cognitive test scores on memory and executive function.

Schools ply students with calories on test days in hopes of boosting scores, a new report suggests

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

In June, researchers reported that office workers scored higher on tests of cognitive function when the room was better ventilated, but many studies have found that background noise impairs cognitive performance.

A more complex picture emerges among people who had anesthesia several times as small children: Although their intelligence is comparable, they score modestly lower on tests measuring fine motor skills, and their parents are more likely to report behavioral and learning problems.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

They reported that the more someone heads a soccer ball, the lower that player will score on tests measuring attention, concentration, and general intellectual functioning.

Nearly half of them reported «serious» forgetfulness in the study, and the women who described the most problems with concentration and memory also scored worse on the cognitive tests.

Scores on the memory test were also lower for veterans with higher estimated exposure and those with self - reported memory difficulties.

UA researchers considered survey respondents» self - reports of physical health and quality of life, as well as their scores on cognition tests measuring verbal fluency, word recall and delayed word recall.

Although the study was not powered to detect an effect of treatment on cognition (findings to be reported separately), in a post hoc analysis, we noted that final cognitive test scores were correlated to the rate of atrophy.

In another study of 400 healthy people, those participants who had higher scores on a gratitude test also reported significantly better sleep.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

Reporting on an alleged bet on the test screening score of «The Reader» for its release prospects?

The second report, released in October of 2000 by Stephen Klein and his colleagues, cast doubt on the validity of TAAS scores by suggesting that the results do not correlate with the test results of other standardized tests.

Students score higher on standardized tests, engage in healthier behaviors at home, increase their community involvement, and report more engagement in the classroom.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the impact individual teachers have on student test scores.

Though a recent Friedman Foundation report showed that Florida has the most regulated of all the STC laws — including a standardized testing mandate, licensure requirements, and copious paperwork — the CER report gives it a near perfect Autonomy score, deducting only one point for «other provisions that encroach on autonomy.»

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Opened by two teachers in 1994 and named Time magazine's «Elementary School of the Year» in 2001, the school reports that its scores on the Stanford Achievement test have jumped 97 percent since 1997.

Updating his findings, McLanahan and Jencks report that «A father's absence lowers children's educational attainment, not by altering their scores on cognitive tests, but by disrupting their social and emotional adjustment and reducing their ability or willingness to exercise self - control.»

After analysts at the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) reported no positive effects on student test scores, the Dallas Morning News declared the program a failure.

Test - retest reliability over short periods of time is the preeminent psychometric question for report card items because the data are not useful if scores that teachers generate for individual students on individual items are unstable during a period of time in which it is unlikely that the student has changed.