Sentences with phrase «requirements on achievement tests»

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Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

As long as students remain within the state, it is possible to track how well most of them are doing from one year to the next on the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT), the exam the state uses to comply with NCLB requirements.

Washington's high - risk designation specified that the State must submit, by May 1, 2014, final guidelines for teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of ESEA flexibility, including requiring local educational agencies (LEAs) to use student achievement on CCR State assessments to measure student learning growth in those systems for teachers of tested grades and subjects.

If passed, this will take what was the state's teacher evaluation system requirement that 20 % of an educator's evaluation be based on «locally selected measures of achievement,» to a system whereas teachers» value - added as based on growth on the state's (Common Core) standardized test scores will be set at 50 %.

School district annual reports are required to include a variety of information, such as progress in meeting accreditation requirements, status of the school improvement plan, achievement of students on state and national tests, retention statistics, parent / guardian participation in parent teacher conferences, curriculum details, etc..

TESTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY — Provides information on student academic achievement and program requirements.

Most impressive is a new requirement that states intervene in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest and in high schools where fewer than 67 percent of students graduate on time.

NYSUT helped legislators draft language that allows state tests to count for 20 percent of regulations, and another 20 percent should center on «other; locally selected measures of student achievement... and are developed locally in a manner consistent with procedures negotiated pursuant to the requirements of article fourteen of the civil service law.»

Additionally, ESSA requires states to annually test 95 percent of students in reading and math, to use the participation rate to calculate the achievement indicator, and to factor assessment participation into the statewide accountability system another way.21 For example, four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont — plan to lower a school's classification for not meeting this requirement.22 In three states — Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee — schools that do not have a 95 percent participation rate can not score at the highest level of proficiency; receive zero points for proficiency; or receive an F on the achievement indicator for the given group of students, respectively.23

Connecticut's Field Test Flexibility waives the CSDE and local districts from the requirement of providing individual student reports regarding achievement on the SB - FT to parents, teachers, and principals.