Sentences with phrase «standardized exam required»

While there is no formal license, credential, or standardized exam required for dental assistants to perform expanded functions in Florida, there is a formal training requirement.

In 1999, after taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), the standardized exam required of applicants to business schools, Mark Breimhorst sued the test's maker, the powerful Educational Testing Service (ETS).

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Legislation unveiled Thursday would bar the state from requiring school districts to use student results on standardized exams to evaluate teachers.

Niagara University no longer will require SAT or ACT scores for admission, joining a growing list of colleges and universities that make the standardized college admissions exams optional for prospective students.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

In addition, about 91 percent of charter school students attend schools that require uniforms, and about 95 percent attend schools that voluntarily administer standardized exams on a regular basis for diagnostic purposes.

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

Mini-lessons in this book are laser - focused on skills that students need from the Algebra 1 TEKS that support their work both in Algebraic Reasoning and, if necessary, to prepare for standardized tests such as the Algebra 1 EOC or college entrance exams that require Algebra 1 content.

Some states made the standardized tests so easy or set passing scores so low that virtually all students were rated proficient even as they scored much lower on federal exams and showed up for college requiring remedial help.

While public schools must administer a raft of tests that include End of Course (EOC) and End of Grade (EOG) exams in addition to the national ACT for high school students, private schools receiving school vouchers will be required to administer a nationally - recognized standardized test of their choosing to students in grades three and higher each year.

When teachers are unqualified or underqualified, student scores on standardized exams are lower, and students are more likely to require remedial education.

It is important to recognize that the Special Day Class was required to show their work on each problem and not simply bubble in answers on the multiple - choice standardized exam.

In fact, when private school students on vouchers in Milwaukee were required for the first time last fall to take the standardized Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, they did not do as well as their counterparts in Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

Measuring student growth without relying solely on narrow standardized tests involves looking at multiple measures of student learning, such as essay exams, portfolios of students» work in various subjects, and group projects that require analysis, investigation, experimentation, cooperation, and written, oral, or graphic presentation of findings.

And last year, the Florida Education Association and the National Education Association filed suit arguing that the state's teacher evaluation system, which requires that at least 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on students» test scores from the state standardized exams, is unconstitutional.

Multiple sources document known reading passages in the New York exams that are substantially above grade level and requiring students to answers questions on a standardized exam that objectively have multiple correct answers.

A growing number of colleges are stepping away from the standardized exams traditionally required of admissions applicants.

Indiana passed laws that created an expansive voucher system, made teacher tenure contingent on effectiveness, limited collective bargaining, ended the process of firing teachers in order of seniority and required teacher evaluations to be «significantly informed» by student performance on standardized exams.

The state currently must follow federal law that requires the administration of English language arts and math standardized exams annually in grades three through eight and once in high school.

It also required the State board to withdraw from PARCC and select an existing nationally administered standardized test that is currently accepted as a high school achievement and college entrance exam.

No paralegal school entrance exam is required, although standardized test scores may be required to enter an Associate degree program.

The Dental Assisting National Board, or DANB, offers a number of certification tests, include the standardized Radiation Health and Safety Exam, which is recognized or required by 37 states and the District of Columbia.

For mental health professionals, a license typically requires a degree or certification, a certain amount of supervised experience, the successful completion of a standardized exam, and continuing education.