Sentences with phrase «scores on basic skills»

Researchers found that STAR students in smaller classes in grades K - 3 earned significantly higher scores on basic skills tests in all four years and in all types of schools.

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«We'd like somebody with a business background to have a strong GMAT score coming in, because they should already have the basic business skill set and the quantitative abilities to do well on the GMAT,» says Pires.

These percentiles are based on the national distribution of scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Since the Texas state test was a test of basic skills, and the accountability metric is based on pass rates, schools had strong incentives to focus on helping lower - scoring students.

Citing low graduation rates and poor scores on basic - skills tests, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has proposed that community colleges within the City University of New York system end open enrollment and eliminate remedial course offerings.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

,» published by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, students whose teachers routinely gave «authentic intellectual assignments» increased their scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (a widely used standardized test) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationally.

An MCT is a standardized exam of basic skills on which a passing score is intended to signify that a student has acquired at least the minimum necessary skills and knowledge for promotion to the next grade or for graduation from high school.

Student scores on basic - skills tests have improved in 12 of 17 New Jersey schools experimenting with the «effective schools» program, according to a new state report.

The Singapore texts and methods were so effective in College Gardens that the scores of students there on the math computation portion of the standardized Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) rose from the 50th and 60th percentiles to the low 90s in the first 4 years they were used.

(The negative effect to which Darling - Hammond refers was probably what Summers and Wolfe noted as the «perversely» negative relationship between 6th grade teachers» scores on the NTE Core Battery, a test of pedagogy and basic skills, and their students» achievement.)

Evaluators use a scoring rubric based on Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, which describes performance of each skill and practice at four levels: «Distinguished,» «Proficient,» «Basic,» and «Unsatisfactory.»

An additional $ 135 million was provided for college scholarships to 11th graders who scored high on the Stanford 9, despite concerns that the Stanford 9 tests mainly basic skills, while college - bound high schoolers are expected to take courses focusing on English literature and algebra.

Third grade reading proficiency is up 15 percent at all community schools, based on end - of - year tests and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS scores.

The problem stems from parents» concern that their own children might be denied promotion or graduation based on a test score; from voters» confusion when their own upscale suburban schools are deemed to be failing by state or federal accountability systems even though most of the graduates do just fine; and from frustration when parents — often prompted by teachers — conclude that the basic - skills testing regime yields too much «drill and kill,» too little flexibility, and insufficient attention to art, music, and other creative disciplines.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

In general, studies indicated that high - stakes standardized basic skills tests led to: a) a narrowing of the curriculum, b) an overemphasis on basic skills and test - like instructional methods, c) a reduction in effective instructional time and an increase in time for test preparation, d) inflated test scores, and e) pressure on teachers to improve test scores (Herman & Golan, 1993; Nolen, Haladyna, & Haas, 1992; Resnick & Resnick, 1992; Shepard, 1991; Shepard & Dougherty, 1991, Smith, 1991; Smith, Edelsky, Draper, Rottenberg, & Cherland, 1990).

Effective Sept. 1, 2015, prospective teachers will also have to pass a state - approved test of basic skills, score a 1660 or higher on the SAT or 23 or higher on the ACT, or a combined score of 310 on the Graduate Record Exam.

Inadequate results even on «basic skills»: Defenders of the Bush plan argue that low - scoring students need to get basic skills, the tests will identify those who need it, and so it is worthwhile.

At another Title I school, Atlanta's Margaret Fain Elementary, reading scores on the Georgia State Testof Basic Skills rose sharply — from 29 to 69 percent.

The cut score on the California Basic Educational Skills Test is 123 out of a top score of 240, or 51 percent — a percentage that would be considered a failing grade in most classrooms.

She included her students» scores on district literacy tests and the University of Oregon's DIBELS tests, short for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, given three times a year at 20 percent of elementary schools in the nation.

In just two years, overall scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills improved by 70 percent, boosting the school's ranking from near the bottom quartile to eight percent above the national median.

The annual Title II collection asks providers about 15 common admission requirements, including the applicant's subject area, transcript, overall grade - point average (GPA), content GPA, professional GPA, credits, scores on ACT / SAT / basic - skills tests, essays, interviews, recommendations, fingerprint and background checks, and «other.»

New Hampshire may accept passing scores on other tests, such as the SAT, ACT, or other states» exams, to fulfill the basic skills requirement.

Evidence for academic improvement comes almost exclusively from scores on statewide tests, which assess relatively basic skills that many no - excuses schools target with intensive drilling.

Which of his two English teachers can claim success with Jacob on the basis of his language arts scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills?

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Students scoring at the 96th percentile or above on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills Math Total or Language Arts Total will qualify for high ability services in corresponding content area.

Classroom teachers of students scoring at the 93rd to 95th percentiles on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills will complete a Scales for Identifying Gifted Students (SIGS) on those students.

-- a relentless focus on basic - skills reading and math scores.

Students who score at the 88th to 95th percentile on at least one of the above CogAT subtests, will be screened further using the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in the appropriate content area at one grade level above their current grade level.

Results were measured using students» scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) total reading assessment, as well as the ITBS reading comprehension and reading words subtests.

Students who score at the 88th to 95th percentile on at least one of the above CogAT subtests, will be screened further in the appropriate content area using the Iowa Test of Basic Skills at one grade level above their current grade level.

University based programs are offered to junior - high - age students who have met a minimum score criterion on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), given in the spring to all students in the system who are at the 95th percentile or higher on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), mathematics or verbal sections.

1 In the last year of the pilot, some schools also measured growth through students» scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

A major influence on high school reform outcomes to date has been the end of social promotion in elementary schools: students in the third, sixth and eighth grades who do not achieve a minimum score on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills are either retained or sent to academic preparatory centers.

Piece by piece, our entire public education system is being redesigned in the service of increasing scores on standardized tests of basic skills.

Aspiring teachers in California, for example, must only score a 51 percent on the California Basic Educational Skills test, which is a required exam for those applying to any teacher preparation programs in the state.

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However, three studies had outcomes where one or two domains had a moderate risk of bias.45 — 47 Two studies had outcomes with high risk of bias in one domain.45 47 Based on an overall judgement across risk - of - bias domains, two outcomes (Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills Form (CTBS) math and reading scores) 47 and one study41 were excluded from the review.