Sentences with phrase «scores on standardized tests»

Children living in poverty have lower scores on standardized tests of academic achievement, poorer grades in school, and lower educational attainment.2, 3 These patterns persist into adulthood, ultimately contributing to low wages and income.4, 5 Moreover, increased exposure to poverty in childhood is tied to greater deficits in these domains.6, 7 Despite numerous studies demonstrating the relationship between family resources and children's educational outcomes, little is known about mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

A key accomplishment is the deployment of iPads and other computer devices that really helped retention and scores on standardized tests.

Examples include academic awards, writing contest awards, publications, perfect attendance awards, leadership positions in clubs and organizations, community service or volunteer awards, high scores on standardized tests / exams and offices held in clubs and organizations.

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving a low - income urban minority community, launched a concerted and successful campaign to raise its students» low math scores on standardized tests.

The ratings are developed using a «Big Data» approach that incorporates multiple data points, including the state's recently introduced, and heavily scrutinized, «A through F Ratings» system, average student scores on standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, and high school graduation rates.

Clearly, physical exercise is just one of the necessary ingredients for improving student scores on standardized tests.

Have student scores on standardized tests changed during the past several years?

Improving teaching, Hardy told her staff again and again, would improve learning and raise scores on standardized tests.

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

In recent years with new state and national education laws (e.g. No Child Left Behind), students» scores on standardized tests can also have consequences for individual teachers (their evaluation is partially based on their students» test scores) and for schools (for example, potentially closing schools with a certain percentage of failing students).

Yet Patterson students» scores on standardized tests are routinely among the highest in the state.

Rhee wants all teachers to be evaluated in large measure by how much they can boost their students» scores on standardized tests.

In the case of evaluations, the union affirmed that for the first time it would support calculating students» test scores on standardized tests as part of teacher reviews — but not with any tests currently in existence.

Broadly speaking, the idea is that if more kids graduate from high school, and achieve higher scores on standardized tests, then more young people are likely to go to college, and, in turn, land jobs that can secure them spots in the middle class.

AYP measures the percentage of students making certain target scores on standardized tests in reading and math and graduation rates — regardless of students» growth.

There are three different ways to report scores on standardized tests.

No standards can close the achievement gap, especially when that gap is measured by scores on standardized tests.

A number of studies have shown that in addition to benefitting from a more desegregated schooling experience, magnet school students tend to outperform students in regular public and private schools in both reading and math scores on standardized tests (Frankenberg & Seigel - Hawley, 2008).

In a study of three districts using standards - based evaluation systems, researchers found significant relationships between teachers» ratings and their students» gain scores on standardized tests, and evidence that teachers» practice improved as they were given frequent feedback in relation to the standards.

It does this by using data for individual students, such as scores on standardized tests, special education and English - learner status, eligibility for free and reduced - price meals (a proxy for poverty), and race and ethnicity.

Indiana was the scene of major education reform this year, following a nationwide trend of tying teacher reviews to student scores on standardized tests.

By Sarah E. LaCour, Adam York, Kevin Welner, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Linda Molner Kelley Policy makers, journalists, and many parents tend to equate high - quality schools with high scores on standardized tests.

However, in Pierce's view, student scores on standardized tests, particularly math tests, are a «litmus test» of the school's overall quality.

Mississippi has consistently posted some of the lowest scores on standardized tests in the nation.

Many schools use student scores on standardized tests for making decisions in terms of grouping and class placement as well as other generalizations about the student.

Most efforts to lift struggling schools focus on students with the lowest scores on standardized tests, as well as students who are «on the bubble» — not college - bound students who presumably are meeting grade - level expectations.

The district had hoped to tie teacher compensation to student scores on standardized tests; the union says only 30 % of teachers» evaluations will come from student test scores, the minimum under Illinois state law.

Curiosity aroused in such children would, of course, be contrary and disruptive to obedience and compliance training the children must get, so as to prepare them to produce, on demand, high enough scores on standardized tests to evidence being on track to «college and career ready.»

But in the past decade, more and more big - name Democrats have split with the unions to support charter schools, tenure reform and accountability measures that hold teachers responsible for raising students» scores on standardized tests.

Under the new Indiana law, schools must use an assessment that includes some kind of objective data — like scores on standardized tests — and link teacher performance to pay.

MIT's study proves that a regime, such as the Common Core, whose goal is increased scores on standardized tests, will not develop critical thinking, no matter what its high - priced salesmen claim.

Charter schools brag that their students get higher scores on standardized tests, but of course they do, when they fail to take the students who are most likely to need extra help.

SM: Tying teacher pay to student scores on standardized tests has been a hot topic in education for some time now, and I know Peabody has done a lot of research on the topic — what are your opinions?

The studies, both by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that as many as a third of students sidetracked into remedial classes because of their scores on standardized tests would have earned a B or better if they had simply proceeded directly to college - level courses.

Friedman was speaking specifically about value - added ratings of teachers — which use student scores on standardized tests to determine a teacher's relative effectiveness — and whether they are sufficiently accurate and reliable to guide personnel decisions.

«In evaluating school performance, registered voters in California say creating a safe and positive school environment is far more important than higher scores on standardized tests, according to a Berkeley IGS / EdSource poll.

A poor rating coupled with low student scores on standardized tests is often the foundation for defining a bad teacher.

Fifty - five percent of Americans and 63 percent of public school parents oppose including student scores on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

But march organizers and supporters suggest that many teachers have become increasingly frustrated with the test - driven accountability framework at the heart of the U.S. education system and look with alarm at the wave of teacher - evaluation measures being enacted in some states, pegged in part to student scores on standardized tests.

eAchieve Academy's students have a proven track record of academic achievement, receiving high scores on standardized tests, Advanced Placement and college entrance exams.

The Wallace Foundation has produced study results indicating that when, (a) principals focus their efforts on improving instruction, (b) teachers trust the principal, and (c) the principal works to develop shared leadership within the building, higher scores on standardized tests of achievement result.

This correspondence with President Obama and Secretary Duncan captures the divide that has emerged between the Obama administration and various self - designated reformers on the one hand, and educators and researchers wary of the unintended results of policies linking high - stakes consequences to students» scores on standardized tests.

It also showed that students who are chronically absent in the second and third grades record lower scores on standardized tests.

MARYLAND»S plunge in scores on standardized tests for elementary and middle school students has unsettled a state that, as a national leader in education, had become accustomed to yearly increases in student performance.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

By contrast, practices don't have to worry that they'll lose their jobs if students» scores on standardized tests don't rise year over year.

These schools had a few things in common: Scores on standardized tests for reading and math were far below the city averages.

Schools and teachers are being held accountable for proving student achievement in unprecedented ways, including tying teacher salaries to student scores on standardized tests.

For that amount of money, their students returned dismal scores on standardized tests.

Zhao urged teacher educators to think bigger than scores on standardized tests — to prepare teachers who do more than train their students on employable skills, but who embrace diversity, curiosity, passion, and creativity.