Sentences with phrase «scores on standardized tests do»

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.

To be sure, scores on standardized tests do not represent the full range of potential charter - school spillover effects.

Not exact matches

I don't believe in fast food, and was intrigued when I read a study that suggested that the more often kids eat the junk, the lower they score on standardized tests.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

They carefully matched these FRI students with peers who did not participate but were otherwise comparable in terms of socioeconomic background, gender, race, ethnicity, scores on standardized tests and other factors.

Brain size seems to have nothing to do with scores on standardized intelligence tests, according to a brain - scan study of young children.

The second report, released in October of 2000 by Stephen Klein and his colleagues, cast doubt on the validity of TAAS scores by suggesting that the results do not correlate with the test results of other standardized tests.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

For the city, Hansen says, the moral of the story was that most parents don't want to move their children from their neighborhood school, no matter how miserable its scores on standardized tests.

In short order, he declared that students whose scores did not reach a certain level on standardized tests would be required to go to summer school and could be held back a year.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled students are comparable to scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled students without extended time.»

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

Students who use newspapers tend to score higher on standardized achievement tests — particularly in reading, math, and social studies — than those who don't use them.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

Researchers found that students of low - performing teachers who'd been randomly selected to join a partnership scored 12 points higher, on average, on standardized tests than students of low - performing teachers who didn't join a partnership.

That report, Dick and Jane Go to the Head of the Class, contends that data from those three studies indicate that students in schools with strong library media programs learn more and score higher on standardized tests than do their peers in schools with less adequate library facilities.

A: We look at standardized test scores in the district, and we also had an evaluation done of some of the models that [Lecturer on Education and Director of the Human Development and Psychology Program] Terry Tivnan did here at HGSE along with Lowry Hemphill, who's now at Wheelock College in Boston.

While some states still judge schools solely based on standardized test scores, these polls reveal that most parents and guardians do not.

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

A new study of Massachusetts middle schools contends schools that don't track students of the same grade into multiple course levels based on their achievement have fewer students scoring at the advanced level on state standardized tests in mathematics.

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.

EdVisions Off Campus does not feel that the entire measure of a student is based on standardized test scores.

Oregon doesn't provide statewide statistics on charter school performance, and many of the schools are too new for their standardized tests scores to show up in the 02 - 03 data, the most recent available from the state Education Department.

They do not want teachers to be rated on their standardized test scores, or replaced by untrained recent college graduates, a la Teach for America.

As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized reading and math tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.

Another problem with basing teacher accountability on standardized test scores is that students don't take annual assessments in many subjects.

Some in the District also say that test scores rose because the percentage of white students — who traditionally do better on standardized tests — has grown in District schools in recent years.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

The analysis looked at the first two years of a four - year program, which has multiple steps, including increased teacher development, and an incentive payment scheme in which teachers are paid more when their students do better on standardized test scores.

Here's a discussion about education evaluation systems that don't obsess on standardized test scores.

I understand the pressures schools are under to achieve the standardized test scores to prove they are successful, but my wish, my hope is that school leaders do not forget their philosophy of education, that they continually reflect on what they believe students really need to learn to succeed in life, that they encourage a culture of listening at their schools.

* VAMs are generally based on standardized test scores and do not directly measure potential teacher contributions toward other student outcomes.

California has identified English learners based on how well they do on the language development test but has left it up to districts and students» teachers to also weigh a mix of factors, including teacher judgment, scores on other standardized academic tests and parent consultations.

Students typically score lower on standardized tests at the end of summer than they do on the same tests at the beginning of the summer.

Billions spent on collecting standardized test scores have successfully given us a sense of how students perform across school districts and states (the answer: not very well), but they do little to tell us meaningfully about how individual students are doing.

He further testified that standardized test scores don't provide enough information about what goes on in a classroom and should therefore not be used to assess a teacher's effectiveness.

The authors assert that teachers «still don't trust test scores» and only one in three support rewarding teachers whose students routinely score higher on standardized tests; overall, however, teachers think evaluations are improving.

Scores from standardized tests do NOT appear on your ERCHS transcript.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

ELL students and students with disabilities tend to score lower on standardized tests, therefore charter schools look higher performing when they do not have either subgroup.

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?

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

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.

The Times did its own value - added analysis based on seven years of standardized test scores obtained from the school district under the state Public Records Act.

The state standardized test scores that are posted in an easily digestible format on the state's website don't break out magnets unless magnets are a standalone school, such as Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies on the Westside or Arroyo Seco Museum Science Magnet School in Highland Park.

The following chart (some of which I've published before) indicates that schools cream off a select group of students — students who end up doing statistically better on standardized test scores.

And they fund the same vehicles to achieve their goals: charter schools, high - stakes standardized testing for students, merit pay for teachers whose students improve their test scores, firing teachers and closing schools when scores don't rise adequately, and longitudinal data collection on the performance of every student and teacher.