Sentences with phrase «scores on a particular skill»

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

Not exact matches

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

This suggests that improvements in state scores often reflect test prep that helps students score higher on one particular test, rather than genuine improvements in students» academic skills.

There are far too many factors that go into a student's score on one particular test on one particular day for this to be in any way a valid indication of the teacher's skill.