Sentences with phrase «standard admissions test»

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• Tulane political science professor William Gwyn told SI that he has seen admission test scores of Tulane athletes and that they are «immeasurably below standard.»

Thousands of high school juniors will pull out their pencils and calculators tomorrow morning for a revamped SAT college - admissions test that reflects the most extensive changes in a decade, including principles embodied in the nation's Common Core academic standards.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

At a meeting here, officials from American College Testing, the Iowa City - based firm that administers the widely used college - admissions test, outlined the procedure it used to set standards on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

When the College Board announced, in the summer of 2002, that it would stop «flagging» the test scores of students who were given special accommodations for the SAT, the gold standard exam for college admission, disability advocates were thrilled.

The flagging of SAT scores protected the test's usefulness as a common standard of measurement by informing readers, such as college - admissions officers, when the test had been taken under unusual conditions, such as receiving time and a half to finish the standard three - hour exam.

The organizers plan by this spring to produce «gap analyses» of how well secondary school tests and standards in the five states — Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas — line up with college - admissions and - placement tests and the demands of employers.

In Chicago, the Illinois Standard Achievement Test is being phased out and does not count toward grades, graduation or college admission.

For example, charter school regulations in both states, as elsewhere, limit the ability of charter schools to set their own mission (e.g., they must be secular), mandate that they administer the state standardized test, forbid them from setting their own admissions standards, forbid them from charging tuition, limit who can teach in the schools, limit the growth of the number of schools, and so on.

State changes included implementing higher admission standards for teacher preparation programs, improving ways to test content knowledge, and developing higher - quality student teaching experiences.100 A separate report from NCTQ focused on states» progress toward aligning teacher preparation programs to new Common Core academic standards.

In addition to the fact that untrained teachers were hired and teachers were assigned out of field, college admissions standards were lowered for teacher education programs: Teachers, on average, had poorer academic records and test scores than other college graduates, and many teacher education programs lowered their expectations to accommodate their clientele.

Also noted are admissions standards, educational curriculum, test administration and measurement standards.

Individual colleges may have differing standards as to what score on the test is needed for admission.

The admission test revision proposes cutting Standard 503, which requires an admission exam, and beefing up Standard 501 to include the use of admission credentials and academic attrition when determining accreditation compliance.

The council's vote Friday on the revisions of standards related to admissions tests was 9 - 8.

The current version of Standard 503 requires that law schools using alternate admissions tests to the LSAT demonstrate that the alternate exams are valid and reliable in determining whether a candidate can complete the school's legal education program.

Berkeley professors Marjorie M. Shultz (law) and Sheldon Zedeck (psychology) released a report last September, only now picked up on by the New York Times, that releases the results of a study done with a newly devised law school admission test and that recommends that this line of inquiry be pursued on a larger scale, with an eye to replacing the standard LSAT.

In light of the student's credentials, scores on standard and aptitude tests, the admission counselor guides the student regarding future course of academics to be pursued.

C.R.E.A. needs to set higher standards for admission to the profession via candidacy based upon standardized pre-screening tests administered «prior» to candidates being allowed to engage educational courses.