Sentences with phrase «said about test scores»

WEINGARTEN: Take what Justin just said about test scores.

If you don't understand what is being said about test scores, ask questions.

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It's counter-intuitive, but Grant says a study involving a math test has confirmed the finding: «When the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might feel.

Putting aside the surprising reemergence of test scores as the preferred standard of performance, I wondered what she would say about Catholic schools.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Just about the same percentage of voters say teacher tenure should not be based on test scores either.

Assemblywoman Pat Fahy, a Democrat from Albany, said she wasn't convinced, either, that the new model addressed her conference's concerns about the reliance on student test scores to rate teachers.

On average, those with the Val / Val polymorphism scored about eight IQ points lower on tests of general intelligence than those with the Val / Met or Met / Met variants, Barbey said.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

I am extremely intelligent per my test scores (genius - level), what everyone says about me, and my academic success, etc. and ma very intellectual, so that gives me a big advantage with highly intelligent, intellectual women — the kind I want anyways.

When we ask questions, and when we're genuinely curious about what students say, we are communicating an authentic desire to get to know who they are beyond their test scores and beyond what other teachers may share.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

Subsequent performance / persistence: How students fare after they leave a school says a lot about what they learned while they were enrolled, and the degree to which that learning was accurately reflected in their test scores — or not.

Parents are happy about the higher test scores, but they have more to say about Landry's projects.

It's a bit hard to say who's a Common Core state and who's not at this point, but if we take the average score change from 2015 to 2017 in the seven decidedly non-CCSS states in both subjects (Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia), we see that these states declined by about 1.4 points on average across tests.

In a case the NY Times said would «propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,» a bunch of lawyers fought it out in a NYC courtroom yesterday.

Educating people who have spent years behind bars is just as much about compassion and humanity as it is about effective study habits and good test scores, say their counselors and teachers.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

If you start bringing in college representatives during freshman and sophomore years, your students can introduce themselves one - on - one, explain that they may have lower tests scores or GPA, and the college representatives can give them advice on ways to increase their scores and grades, what they can write about in their essays, and «what they can actually get in the habit of doing in hopes of getting accepted into their college,» says Cole.

A story and chart in the May 14, 2008, issue of Education Week about states that have curtailed bilingual education should have said that trends in student achievement identified by Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, were based on test scores in reading of English - language learners in 4th grade, not 4th and 8th grades.

Test scores, he says, tell us nothing about the number of times a day that a child smiles, which is what really counts in our schools.

«You can't clobber people about test scores and then say, «Let's collaborate.»

They understand you,» she says, adding that at Icahn, «they care more about the students than the students» test scores.»

For him, the best evidence of this is not just improved test scores or faster mastery of content but when parents say that their children are excited about learning and can't wait to get up in the morning and go to school.

Particularly intriguing was the discussion about using methods other than test scores to determine whether students are succeeding, said... read more

But the magnitude of student test score gains would count for about one - fifth of the rating, Saxton said.

Deasy said the Gates report has «strengthened» his inclination toward counting test scores for about 30 % of the evaluation, with observations making up the greatest share.

«There's been extensive work about how teachers affect test scores, but as [Loeb] pointed out, there's been substantially less on how teachers affect student behaviors, specifically attendance, [especially] in high school,» Kelley - Kemple said.

Because the single - year test - score increases raise as many questions as they answer about what is really happening in the schools, the administration is also boasting higher attendance rates in their new small high schools, a sign, they say, that students are more engaged in their schooling.

«Our entire technology has only been in place since last spring, so it's early to look for changes on standardized tests,» Grignano said when asked about student scores.

Several of the researchers said that measures of test score growth had significant limitations, but also provided meaningful information about a teacher's impact on

The president of the Toms River Education Association — one of the largest locals ion the state, with 3,200 members said afterward that she remained worried about the most contentious part of the new process: the use of test scores in judging any of her members.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students» test scores.

That said, the NACAC study revealed that about a third of selective colleges stated that a small increase in standardized test scores could make a difference in their admission decision.

These are some of the things I've heard teachers say over the years about standardized test scores and the pressures surrounding student performance:

Ratliff said she was also concerned about using schoolwide test scores to judge her individual performance.

The guidelines will include recommendations for how much weight to give test scores; he has said in the past that it should count for about 30 %.

«The angst we are feeling about those test scores,» she said, «is related to the fact that we didn't do this in the right order.»

Ratliff, a Los Angeles school board candidate who was recently elected to the union's House of Representatives, said she frequently reviews raw test scores for concrete information about specific skills her students are struggling with, such as grammar or reading comprehension.

Just recently, the American Statistical Association said: «Most VAM studies find that teachers account for about 1 % to 14 % of the variability in test scores, and that the majority of opportunities for quality improvement are found in the system - level conditions.

Yet similar scores on the same tests meant something quite different in Illinois, where education officials said only about a third of students were on track.

Education reformers don't care about teacher credentials or experience, because some economists say they don't raise test scores.

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

The exact score is going to depend on the school, so this article will provide a general overview of what defines a good Physics SAT Subject Test score and what some colleges say about the exam.

«When people talk about their experience with a really good teacher, they're not talking about test scores,» said Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

«Background characteristics (e.g., race, gender, neighborhood poverty, free lunch eligibility, being old - for - grade, and special education status) are all related to high school grades and test scores, but they do not tell us any more about who will pass, get good grades, or score well on tests in high school, once we take into account students» eighth - grade GPAs, attendance, and test scores,» the authors said.

Charter - school supporters and some academics dispute the federation's interpretation of the test scores, saying it's impossible to reach a conclusion about the performance of charter schools from a single year.