Sentences with phrase «school testing data»

Information regarding the high school testing data is notably excluded because of a drop in participation rates to 89 % from 98 % [11].

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) as called on Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to hold off on the publication of any 2016 primary schools test data.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. reacts to school test data (he thought it wasn't good) in 2005.

Not exact matches

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

But research violations — including inappropriate drug testing on children and falsified data — forced the school to repay a National Institute of Mental Health grant for a whopping $ 3.1 million.

To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

Test score data from a diverse pool of schools is shared in context with peer like schools.

Schools do review their test score data.

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.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatschool, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatSchool Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

Roughly one out of every 20 water taps in NYC elementary schools has tested positive for elevated lead levels, a NY Post analysis of Department of Education data has found.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

F.E.S. has sent reporters eight data reports since August, presented with different news pegs, detailing low test scores at struggling schools.

But Spatafora also said the modules and tests can be tweaked and the exams provide the school district with data it needs to evaluate how it is doing compared to other similar school districts.

Republicans argued that means most schools won't even attempt to use the test data when evaluating teachers.

Senior Deputy Commissioner John King said, «The data shows that schools responded to the assignment they were given — they worked hard to help students achieve standards as measured by the state tests that were being given at that time.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

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.

Radford tells WBFO he believes taking away a day of testing right now would harm data in tracking student achievement in the city school district.

«The data points shouldn't be test scores but parent engagement, the amount of [student] suspensions, and the improvements made at struggling schools.»

An analysis of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one out of every six students eligible to take the third - through eighth - grade tests in New York State sat at least one of them out this past school year, part of the so - called opt out movement.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

The data indicated that helmet rating scales may be somewhat misleading to parents or schools considering helmet purchases as higher ratings based on laboratory testing did not necessarily correlate to increased protection «on the field» for high school football players.

«This study shows that researchers working on problems in rare diseases, such as blood pressure in synucleinopathies, can pool together data and ideas and develop a simple bedside test that can perhaps help spot these problems earlier,» says Dr. Kaufmann, the Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research in the Department of Neurology, and professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.

The data were used to test mathematical models to pinpoint the role and importance of factors associated with H1N1's arrival and spread, including demographics, school opening dates, humidity levels and immunity from previous outbreaks.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

In a Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that prescription opioid abuse can be minimized by monitoring patients closely for harm by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing prescription drug monitoring program data when available.

The test showed that the data in at least one of his studies — a 2012 article in the journal Preventive Medicine looking at carrot consumption among school children — appeared iffy.

Analyzing data on more than 4,000 participants in the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, researchers from Harvard and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health found that children with behavioral problems at the age of 8, had higher levels of two proteins (C - reactive protein — CRP; and Interleukin 6 — IL - 6) in their blood when tested at the age of 10.

«After developing our scale, data from follow - up testing confirmed that students» engagement scores were positively correlated with indicators of performance, such as good grades and independent learning outside of school motivated by interest.

And I'd always said from looking at risk data with school children, that there had been massive gains on these tests that require using logic on abstractions, like block design, picture arrangement.

Assistant Professor Arindam Basu from NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering said the research team have tested the chip on data recorded from animal models, which showed that it could decode the brain's signal to the hand and fingers with 95 per cent accuracy.

Data collected from 2,135 children aged 3 - 9 years from schools across China reveal that good self - control behaviours improve with age, and girls performed better than boys in tests of self - control.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

We use test - score data from the years 2000 — 01 to 2005 — 06 from the 36 charter schools that enroll students in grades 3 through 12.

So on a bright November afternoon three weeks after the test, Hope's math specialist, Christine Madison, and two of the school's 4th - grade teachers huddled over five pages of test - score data assembled for them by ANet.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

With latest November 2015 data revealing that nearly four million UK children have never had their sight tested at school.

The study, which used data compiled from students who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) from 1995 to 1998, was conducted by Daniel Koretz and Cathy Horn of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Michael Russell and Kelly Shasby of Boston College and Chingwei David Shin of the University of Iowa.

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.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

In November 2005, participating schools were provided with the tools to analyze their own test data to ascertain where their students needed the most help.

Teachers had little understanding of how to use test data to drive improvement and had given insufficient attention to implementing the national curriculum, putting Denmark at a disadvantage compared with other WA schools.

In my view, these descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming.

They agree that the 4 - year - old law has brought unprecedented attention to those students by requiring schools to isolate test - score data for English - learners.

We also drew on an additional year of data, from the 2012 13 school year, in assessing IMPACT's effects on student achievement in tested grades and subjects.

By NCLB standards, Wildwood went from a low - to high - performing school by developing a data - driven culture that included intensive test prep.