Sentences with phrase «someone scores on a standardized test»

And, high schools that emphasize athletic participation and success are associated with higher scores on standardized tests and higher graduation rates.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

What's more, a study conducted by the University of Virginia showed that kids who attend a school with a severe climate of bullying often have lower scores on standardized tests.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

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.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

20 % of teacher evaluations will be based on student scores on standardized tests, and another 20 % of the teacher's grade will be based on standardized test scores, but there will be some leeway for interpreting those test scores.

Some 20 percent of the evaluation (25 percent after two years) would be based on student scores on standardized tests.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

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.

How well someone scores on a standardized test is based on a combination of intelligence, preparation, motivation, concentration, test - day jitters, and lots of other variables.

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

For example, Subject 2, whose scores on standardized tests showed impaired memory and executive function, had an 86.9 % reduction in excess path length for locations learned during stimulation, as compared with those learned without stimulation.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

I've always been skeptical of society's oft - held belief that student scores on standardized tests are an indication of teacher quality.

A study conducted by Fordham University researchers found that reading and math scores on standardized tests are higher at IS 218 than at comparable middle schools.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher scores on standardized tests if they know the vocabulary of the standards.

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.

a broad agreement about their mission and purpose — everyone's there to get high scores on standardized tests, everyone's in agreement about the need for results, and everyone's bought into how these results will be obtained.

Today, the success of K - 12 schools is measured primarily by cut - off scores on standardized tests.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

HFA scores on standardized tests are as much as four times higher than those of other Detroit schools, and 86 percent of the most recent graduated students were accepted at four - year universities.

Today, black and white adults with similar scores on standardized tests earn similar wages.

This is important to know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by scores on standardized tests, significantly affects student achievement.

Finally, the researchers examined correlations among the nature of classroom assignments, the quality of student work, and scores on standardized tests.

For the last four decades, students» scores on standardized tests have increasingly been regarded as the most meaningful evidence for evaluating U.S. schools.

Hispanic students are not being tested properly, nor are their scores on standardized tests being used for the right purposes, a presidential advisory panel concluded last week.

Voters thought improving scores on standardized tests was the least important (30 percent extremely important, 32 percent very important).

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

I recently received his scores on his standardized tests and the scores are poorer than we (or he) might have expeected.

Although more than half the students who spend an extra year in the same grade and attend summer school improve their scores on standardized tests, the remaining students held back continue to struggle.

Students participating in arts - integrated lessons show increased language and math scores on standardized tests and improved engagement, motivation, and sense of community (Smithrim and Upitis, 2005).

These patterns are consistent with the findings of a 1997 study by Dominic Brewer and Dan Goldhaber, which found that more in - class problem solving for American 10th - grade students in math is related to lower test scores on a standardized test.

She believed that by taking more advanced courses, students could achieve higher scores on standardized tests.

When they speak of «achievement» or «performance,» they mean higher scores on standardized tests.

However, I am discouraged by the fact that a score on a standardized test is still the marker of success in the course.

When they speak of «effective teachers,» what they mean is teachers whose students produce higher scores on standardized tests every year, not teachers who inspire their students to love learning.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

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

The cry is for good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be tossed out of classrooms, based on student achievement assessed by scores on standardized tests.

The idea of authentic assessment — evaluating children based on an in - depth examination of their work rather than their scores on standardized tests — goes back a century, to the beginnings of the progressive education movement.

Later this month, The Times will publish a database of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students» scores on standardized tests, marking the first time such information had been released publicly.

This superior performance claim is based on comparisons of aggregate charter school and public district school scores on standardized tests.