Sentences with phrase «standardized achievement tests»

The middle school, which serves students in grades 6 — 8, had low scores on standardized achievement tests, an alarming level of bad behavior, and dwindling enrollment.

This paper considers the issues raised in using standardized achievement test scores for purposes of examining the academic productivity of schools.

Two kinds of standardized achievement tests commonly used for school evaluations are ill suited for that measurement.

Some of the items in standardized achievement tests measure the knowledge or skills that students learn in school.

Schools must be in existence for at least five years and must demonstrate academic excellence as measured by standardized achievement tests, strong governance, operational sustainability and sound fiscal practices.

While all large - scale standardized achievement tests can yield valid norm - referenced interpretations, only tests aligned to a set of standards can produce valid criterion - referenced interpretations.

What forces, priorities, evidence, or interests have driven the collective belief that annual standardized achievement testing can improve schools?

Raising standardized achievement test scores and the origins of test score pollution.

The study assessed performance on standardized achievement tests as well as measures of various character strengths.

The results strongly suggest that good indoor learning coupled with good outdoor instruction increases student scores on many standardized achievement tests.

Teacher effects show up more dramatically on teacher made tests than on standardized achievement tests because the former are based on the enacted curriculum, while the latter are based on the desired curriculum.

Does your child perform at the top percentile of the grade - level standardized achievement test in relation to same aged peers?

This article examines the role of student demographic characteristics in standardized achievement test scores at both the individual level and aggregated at the state, district, school levels.

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.

Generally, academic achievement is defined by student performance, as measured by standardized achievement tests.

He provides evidence from several decades of scholarly research on teacher effectiveness to show that teachers do make a difference in student achievement as measured by large - scale standardized achievement tests.

As a consequence, students» performances on this type of instructionally insensitive test often become dependent on the very same SES factors that compromise the utility of nationally standardized achievement tests when used for school evaluation.

CASEL reports: «A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.»

Washington — The Educational Testing Service (ets), the nation's largest developer of standardized achievement tests for students, last week announced several measures that it says will open its programs to more public scrutiny and ensure their fairness.

DNPE is responsible for registering home schools and inspecting the school's student attendance and nationally standardized achievement test results periodically.

The authors concluded that when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support, the use of standards - based, inquiry - science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students.

One way to compare homeschooled students with peers who attend public schools is to use standardized achievement test scores.

The opt - out testing movement invalidates inferences about teachers and schools that can be made from standardized achievement test results.

Also, test - anxious students are found to receive lower standardized achievement test scores, GPA, and class exam scores (Chapell et al., 2005; Everson, Millsap, & Rodriquez, 1991; Schwarzer, 1990).

Assessing new teachers with standardized achievement tests is likely to yield many false negatives.

Research by Sean Corcoran, William Evans, and Robert Schwab indicates that the likelihood of a female teacher having been among the highest - scoring 10 percent of high school students on standardized achievement tests fell sharply between 1971 and 2000, from 24 to 11 percent.

Nearly one - third of the 450,000 Arizona students who took a state - required standardized achievement test were given incorrect scores by the computer firm hired to grade the tests.

The first of these categories are nationally standardized achievement tests like the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, which employ a comparative measurement strategy.

By contrast, standardized achievement tests indicate how well a test taker has acquired knowledge and mastered certain skills.

As a consequence, most nationally standardized achievement tests end up being instructionally insensitive.

So, producing score spread often preoccupies those who construct standardized achievement tests.

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

-- School Quality National standardized achievement tests (such as the Stanford Achievement Test, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, etc.) are designed to measure a student's knowledge and skills in academic subject areas in relation to a national sample of students at the same grade level.

One of Duckworth's seminal papers on self - control, for example, is entitled «What No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: The Roles of IQ and Self - Control in Predicting Standardized Achievement Test Scores and Report Card Grades.»

«It's bringing those two communities together around question of what it means to have kids engaged, or what is the tension between engaged learning and learning the kinds of things standardized achievement tests will test and not making compromises.»

«One of the chief reasons that children's socioeconomic status is so highly correlated with standardized test scores is that many items on standardized achievement tests really focus on assessing knowledge and / or skills learned outside of schoolâknowledge and / or skills more likely to be learned in some socioeconomic settings than in others.»

A study of homeschooled student scores on standardized achievement tests shows higher scores than the general population (National Home Education Research Institute, 1997).

In the article the authors discuss whether «today's standardized achievement tests [actually] yield instructionally useful data.»

These authors explored some of the challenges and promises in terms of using and designing standardized achievement tests and other educational tests that are «instructionally useful.»

Should the president insist that the goal be reset and that «accountability» will not occur based on yearly - standardized achievement tests controlled from the federal level?

Different standardized achievement tests, both purporting to measure reading, mathematics, or science at the same grade level, will give different estimates of teacher competency.

Yearly standardized achievement tests for all students should not be among them.