Sentences with phrase «school administers the tests»

In our school district, the elementary schools administer tests to the kids in September as a way of assessing reading skills.

The packs with test papers should only be opened in the test room immediately before the school administers the tests for the first time.

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And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

We also accept results from the Secondary School Admissions Test administered by SSAT.

In addition to actually teaching the warm little bodies in our classes, we have to grade papers, attend meetings, participate in school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endless.

[iv] Another administered tests of empathy to grade school children and found that those who had had secure attachments to their fathers as babies were better able to identify other children's feelings, and to take steps to make them feel better.

In a show of opposition to Governor Cuomo's education policies, Ken - Ton's School Board voted this week to «seriously consider not administering» the state's mandatory math and English tests to students in grades 3 through 8.

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.»

Schools are administering the English and Language Arts tests to students in grades 3 - 8 this morning.

Schools have several days to administer the tests so they can reschedule, but the problem added stress and inconvenience at a time when anxiety runs high for some families and teachers.

The company administering state tests Wednesday may be the one getting the bad grades from schools.

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This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

Elia and her aides noted that federal law requires state tests to be administered to students annually, regardless of whether assessments are also used in rating job performance of school employees.

Most of the state's school children did not measure up in new tests administered last year.

«And that whole high - stakes testing regime, which is part of Common Core, is a big drain on time in the schools as well as money to administer the program.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

Questar administers New York State standardized tests in English Language Arts and mathematics for elementary and middle school students in grades three through eight.

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

The principal announced that she'd given Rosenthal permission to administer a fancy - sounding new IQ test to the school's students that spring.

High Schools That Work (HSTW) has required participating sites to administer a set of achievement tests in reading, mathematics, and science.

Moreover, while most private schools already administer tests, some schools have a philosophy that eschews standardized testing.

Then, at the first faculty meeting, you are handed a test that has to be administered to the students on the first day of school.

During the spring of 2000, Florida schools administered both the FCAT and a version of the Stanford 9, which is a widely used and respected nationally normed standardized test.

In Indiana, schools must administer the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress assessment and report their graduation rates to the states.

But as DCPS learned early in the Rhee era, when it entrusted schools to administer high stakes tests to their own students, incentive systems need strong oversight.

Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.

In the community of Reggio Emilia in Italy, for example, schools document student learning in a variety of ways, none of which involves administering multiple choice tests.

In Louisiana, participating private schools that serve more than forty voucher students must administer all of the state tests to them.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

Participating private schools should be required to administer and report results from the state achievement tests.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Schools, districts, and other organizations can now administer the survey tools in both English and Spanish to easily assess the current state of their parent — school relationships or test whether their efforts to improve these relationships are working.

If Louisiana policymakers want to ensure parents have access to valuable test data without the significant downsides of a single test, a better solution would be requiring schools to administer one of the many nationally norm - referenced exams.

How many voucher schools were already aligned with the state curriculum and / or administered the state test?

I am sure that schools feel pressure to reach their adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals and administering constant practice tests may seem like the most assured way of raising scores, but so many of the most important needs of students are compromised as a result.

To address this situation, CMU required schools to administer a computer adaptive test during a common testing window at the beginning and at the end of the school year.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

Here's one option which would be available now: (i) Administer the new assessments to all eligible students; (ii) Score the assessments for a randomly chosen 10 percent of students; (iii) Estimate the item parameters and weed out the items which did not perform as expected; (iv) Go back and score the remaining tests for the remaining 90 percent of students; (v) Provide scaled scores back to school districts, parents and teachers.

Starting with the 2002 — 03 school year, NWEA administered tests in mathematics, reading, and language arts to more than 90 percent of the state's students.

Students who flunked the reading and math standardized tests administered in March will have another chance to pass the tests in July after attending summer school.

William Sanders, formerly of the University of Tennessee and now at the SAS Institute, has done pioneering work to develop a system of value - added assessment, using the results of annual tests administered to all elementary and middle - school students in Tennessee.

At the center of these efforts is the statewide standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), administered to public school children in grades 3 to 10.

In any case, the NCLB - era strategies — centered on setting standards, administering assessments, and holding everybody «accountable» for the results on those tests — have yielded only modest gains, especially in the high school years.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

This chart shows the results of the standardized tests administered each year at the close of Chicago's summer school session.

In announcing the 2000 test results last week, Virginia education officials said that 22 percent, or 406 of the state's 1,874 public schools, had posted acceptable passing rates on the state's rigorous Standards of Learning exams administered to students last spring.