Sentences with phrase «schools sample tests»

ACT offers states, districts, and schools sample tests for student practice, so students can feel more comfortable with the content and format of the test.

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Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

«The sample test results for Key Stage 2 science are based on five per cent of schools which makes spurious any comparisons with other test results from previous years.

The bill requires that all school buildings serving students in pre-K to grade five must collect a sample for testing, while students in grades six through 12 will be required to collect samples by Oct. 31.

«The Government needs to scrap the damaging school performance tables and focus instead on a more balanced method of assessing educational achievement based on externally marked sample tests.»

At an elementary school in Ithaca, one sample tested at 5,000 ppb of lead — the EPA's threshold for «hazardous waste.»

Jessica Weaver, a postdoctoral researcher in Georgia Tech's Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, places hydrogel samples into multiwall plate for testing.

Previous work in this realm typically asked black - and - white questions with just two answer options or tested a non-representative sample such as a group of recruited high - school students.

New Scientist also arranged for samples from the four individuals to be tested at another laboratory, led by Denise Syndercombe Court of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the standard clinical tests including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.

Although white students comprised 55 % of the representative sample of 122,000 middle school students who took portions of the test, they make up 76 % of those scoring above 176.

In addition to Project BioEYES, the program has expanded to include a new project called Your Watershed, Your Backyard, in which middle - school students grow zebrafish embryos in water samples from their own local watershed to test the effects of pollution.

They scale the gain in black students» scores by the standard deviation of test scores computed for a select sample of students, and observe that the gain in their scores due to attending private school is «roughly one - third of the test - score gap between blacks and whites nationwide.»

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Each dot represents a school, and the diagonal line shows the overall relationship between test - score gains and fluid cognitive ability across the full sample of schools.

Our results show that each year of attendance at an oversubscribed Boston charter school increases the math test scores of students in our sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

In a recent session of Christopher Benson's AP U.S. History class at Marble Hill High School for International Studies, a public school in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP quesSchool for International Studies, a public school in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP quesschool in the Bronx set high above the Harlem River, students reviewed for an upcoming test by going over sample AP questions.

It's quite a large sample, it's about 6500 students, and we test them on this and then they give their feelings and their attitudes about reading, about school, about learning, those sort of things, in a survey afterwards.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

That is a low - stakes test taken only by a representative sample of students, none of whom answer all the questions and for whom no results are reported by student, teacher, or school.

A study of a representative sample of schools in California shows that schools where the principal and the district extensively used test data to improve instruction and student learning had the highest achievement for English - language learners.

Some states in the United States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Similar flaws The findings are no surprise to the Asbestos Testing and Consultancy (ATaC), which published a report in February 2010 highlighting very similar flaws of asbestos management in a sample of schools.

This approach forced us to restrict the sample to schools in which both a 7th - grade and an 8th - grade class were actually tested and in which data on the actual class sizes and average class sizes were available for each grade.

Each country administered the test to a nationally representative sample of middle - school students, defined as those students enrolled in the two adjacent grades that contained the largest proportion of 13 - year - old students at the time of testing (grades 7 and 8 in most countries).

Shortly before Oklahoma schools started administering the state tests this month, school officials found that test booklets listed the wrong answers on four sample questions.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»

First, it would all but eliminate school - level information about the learning of student subgroups, as testing only a single grade in each school often results in sample sizes for groups such as English learners or blacks that are too small to yield reliable information for the school as a whole.

Before that, students are assessed using teacher or school - made formative and summative tests, and sample - based national assessments.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

These data are from a nationally representative sample of roughly 6,000 students from the cohort of students who were in 10th grade in 2002, and include information from student surveys, teacher surveys, standardized tests, and administrative data from schools.

«It would not apply to independent schools although pupils at independent schools will also be asked to take the test to ensure that the sample of pupils that take the test is nationally representative.»

Given the importance of sampling variation and the fact that the largest bonuses were reserved for teachers in schools with the most extreme increases in test scores, this is hardly a surprise.

In each school, 60 students (30 per class) were drawn from the initial sample to participate in the tests.

With a sample this small, having five particularly bright students (or a few students with undiagnosed learning disabilities) in any one year can lead to large fluctuations in a school's test scores from one year to the next.

To limit attrition from the experiment, proctors were instructed to go to the homes of sampled students who had dropped out or were absent on the day of the test and to bring them to school for the test.

However, given the amount of sampling variation and other non-persistent fluctuations in test - score levels and gains, schools with particularly low test scores in one year would be expected to bounce back in subsequent years.

Also part of the longitudinal study, a matched sample of voucher and Milwaukee Public Schools students are taking the same tests to produce a sound comparison.

The exam regulator has revealed plans to ask government to make its National Reference Test (NRT) mandatory for a sample of 300 secondary schools across the country, commencing in March 2017.

We're going to recruit 20 schools over the next few years and we're going to do that in two cohorts — we're going to do that in 10 schools next year and then another 10 schools the following year (we're actually doing recruitment at the moment for that), and we're going to test it with a larger sample to see whether our initial positive findings hold and whether they have the same benefits that we've seen so far.

Homework sets, worksheet, and sample test questions to support the learning of Kinetic Molecular Theory for high school chemistry students.

Due to this general disconnect between achievement and attainment effects of choice programs and, in a few cases in our sample, individual choice schools, we caution commentators and regulators to be more humble and circumspect in judging school choice programs and schools of choice based solely on their test score effects.

It started a school - wide excitement about the sample questions and testing in general.»

The variable Sigt is the years spent in a charter or pilot school as of the test date, counting any repeated grades, and counting time in all charter and pilot schools, not only the ones in our lottery sample.

A large sample of high school seniors nationwide, in both public and private schools, took the tests last year — 18,700 students in reading and 13,200 in mathematics.

* Table of contents * Resume, including continuing education, special committee work and awards and special recognition * References * Letters of recommendation * Transcripts * Educational philosophy * Classroom management theory * Personal goals * Sample worksheets, games and tests * Examples of lessons — units or projects * Photos of your classroom in action to illustrate your lesson examples * Examples of students» work * Final results of projects or committees you have been a part of * Optional: short video showing you in action in front of the classroom and one - on - one with students * Optional: screen shots and addresses of school or classroom websites you have created * Optional: computer disks and print - outs of programs you have written or modified

Table 2 also reports baseline (i.e., pre-treatment) test scores, which are measured in elementary school for the middle school sample and in middle school for the high school sample.

To examine the correspondence of citizen perceptions of school quality and measures of test - score growth, we turn to our representative sample of residents of Florida, where the state accountability system evaluates schools based on both test - score levels and test - score growth.