Sentences with phrase «sorts of achievement tests»

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«College and Career Ready» indicators: Many states already include AP, IB, ACT, and SAT achievement in their high school rating systems, and we heartily endorse all of these of these measures, especially those tied to achievement on AP / IB tests, which are precisely the sort of high - quality assessments that critics of dumbed - down standardized tests have long called for.

A second kind of instructionally insensitive test is the sort of standardized achievement test that many states have developed for accountability during the past two decades.

NAEP tests, unlike many state tests, are not «norm - referenced» — designed in a manner that spreads student scores and sorts students along a spectrum of achievement levels.

(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.

(School achievement tests showed greater long - run effects in the Perry study, but these school - based achievement tests are not the sort of measure used in the Head Start experiment, probably because they are difficult to compile and compare across diverse schools.)

Not that it's an achievement of some sort, but Ford has done it, becoming the first automaker to do so since Google, another company that's already testing autonomous vehicles in the snow, isn't technically an automaker... yet.