Sentences with phrase «require standardized»

Some juridictions require standardized testing provided by province or country.
However, there exist different writing genres that require standardized content.
That said, several of the schools have test - optional admissions and do not require standardized test scores, and the University of Rochester has test - flexible admissions and will accept scores from standardized tests other than the SAT and ACT.
In response to the increased testing mandates of NCLB, RTTT and other federal grant programs, some states and districts now require standardized tests for every subject, including art, music, journalism and physical education.
It does not require standardized testing.
The list of conditions being targeted by cell therapies is rapidly growing, but commercializing cells for widespread medical use will require standardized laboratory practices.
FMVSS 213 requires a standardized seat assembly, which is representative of a vehicle seat, and ATDs that represent children of various sizes.
Nearly one - third of the 450,000 Arizona students who took a state - required standardized achievement test were given incorrect scores by the computer firm hired to grade the tests.
While there is still a mandate requiring standardized testing, the act provides for a cut in the time spent on standardized testing.
Preparing students to be college and career ready through the elimination of instructional time that teachers use to prepare students for college required standardized testing (SAT, ACT) is puzzling, but the taking of instructional time so students can take state mandated standardized tests that claim to measure preparedness for college and career is an exercise in circular logic.
Your chances of getting into a highly selective school that requires standardized test scores will be greatly reduced if your scores are well below the norm for the school.
There is also a flexibility rule that allows students with a minimum 2.75 to still be certified if they achieve a score on the required standardized Praxis test that is at least 10 percent higher than the minimum passing score.
The average U.S. student will take 112 required standardized tests between the ages of preschool and 12th grade, with eighth graders having the most testing required of them in a single year with more than 25 hours of testing.
Last year, Primary Sources: 2012, a report by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, found that only 28 percent of educators see state - required standardized tests as an important gauge of student achievement.
This review will continue with a focus on research involving technology integration in literacy with students having mild disabilities (learning disabled, behavior disordered, and mildly intellectually disabled) who are most likely to be included with their peers in the general classroom and who must be included in state - required standardized assessment programs.
Coleman argues that if the number of students taking the required standardized tests drops below 95 percent, the government can cut funding to schools, and that will be most damaging to students of color.
We used this information to identify the number and frequency of district and state - required standardized assessments for students by grade spans K - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12 and to determine the time it took for students to take the assessments.
MecklenburgACTS recommends that the state stop requiring any standardized test that is not mandated by the federal government.
Like all states, Maryland has been working to create a plan for complying with the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which gives states renewed authority over school accountability while requiring standardized testing and interventions in low - performing schools.
Baumbach's study of high schools concluded students at schools with well - staffed libraries and high circulations performed better on Florida's required standardized tests.
Controllers may have relatively similar qualifications, as this position requires standardized training.
My task was to clarify the rules and help the students pass the required standardized testing.
Evaluating cognitive functioning typically requires standardized testing through psychoeducational or gifted assessments.

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First of all, it doesn't come with a keyboard, which is still essential — and legally required — for taking standardized tests.
The Duty of Diligence contained in the Department of Labor fiduciary rule will require advisors to employ a standardized, systematic and repeatable process when issuing advice, our Kim O'Brien says.
Both the investment structures and founder covenants required by angels are less constrained by standardized institutional practice.
There is also a standardized disclosure form that sellers in New Hampshire are required to fill out.
The obvious answer to the time and energy required to interview members for faith histories and to inventory the congregation for gifts and graces is to train a cadre of lay interviewers with a standardized interview schedule and record - keeping procedure.
They require that the mash producers provide them with a standardized product, which they can adjust slightly by varying the amounts of vinegar added.
Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»
The only standardized testing is that which is required by the state on Tennessee in order.
Trade schools, unions, and the military also require applicants to take standardized tests.
Explain that standardized testing is required by law in order to access appropriate services and in order to pinpoint the areas in which a child needs a little more help.
As a significant part of the AP Program is a standardized test does the program teach the higher level skills that require nurturing in regular high school courses, or is it also prey to teaching to the test?
By measuring weight and length and plotting it on a standardized growth grid, can helps you to determine how much infant nutrition can be required for their healthier growth.
Death certificates are not standardized and do not require reporting of whether or not a woman woman had recently given birth.
After a 2011 lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that ended in 2014 with a payout of $ 75,000 to the traveling mother, TSA agents were retrained and required to follow strict standardized protocol.
Through a contract with its managed care organizations and its primary care case management network, Illinois requires prenatal and postpartum depression screening using an approved validated, standardized tool, referral, and treatment, as well as ongoing monitoring and tracking for enrollees.
At the same time, the 2010 national Common Core standards were being implemented, and the number of standardized tests that students were required to take multiplied.
Tedisco, Graf, Murray and Ra are sponsoring the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Terrence Murphy (R,C,I - Jefferson Valley), Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns (D - Buffalo), Senator Joseph A. Griffo (R,C,I - Rome) and Senator George Latimer (D - Rye) today joined with parents, students and educators in Albany to call for passage of bi-partisan legislation they are sponsoring, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» (A. 6025 / S.4161) to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.
Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.
One detail that is still «in flux,» Wagner said, is whether the education department will be required to design an additional standardized test for use in the evaluation system; the Cuomo administration said on Sunday that would be included in the budget.
Districts would be required to use state - administered standardized assessments as a component in the ratings, but they would also have the option to use an additional test that would also be designed by the state.
Lifton opposes adding an optional state standardized test as a component for the evaluations, and she's not sure about a new «matrix» model for evaluations that the State Education Department will be required to develop under Cuomo's plan.
The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»
Legislation unveiled Thursday would bar the state from requiring school districts to use student results on standardized exams to evaluate teachers.
Niagara University no longer will require SAT or ACT scores for admission, joining a growing list of colleges and universities that make the standardized college admissions exams optional for prospective students.
New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.
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