Sentences with phrase «standardized test results as»

Debate extends to how test data can and should be used in terms of accountability for schools and school personnel, particularly the inclusion of standardized test results as a factor in teacher evaluations, and regarding the use and protection of student data.

A plan popular among some state and federal policy makers uses student standardized test results as a significant component in evaluating teachers, in some places comprising up to 50 % of the evaluation.

They also raise important questions about the government's reliance on standardized test results as a guide for regulating the options available to families.

Not exact matches

A wonderlic result doesn't take into account a players» level of test anxiety or other factors such as educational training for standardized tests in the past.

Ivy League admission departments are not placing as much consideration on standardized test results and are relying more on the personal interview and creative endeavors of applicants.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

The results: Male teachers tend to use sports analogies, such as «Standardized tests are the Super Bowl of knowledge.»

Given the concerns raised by the Klein study regarding the validity of the TAAS exams in Texas, I decided to use the same analytical technique as Klein: comparing results on the FCAT with results on low - stakes standardized tests given at around the same time and in the same grade.

(The results did not change when we tested alternative methods for standardizing GPAs, such as omitting remedial course grades or accounting for students» 10th - grade test scores.)

Fewer absences therefore may also explain why later - starting students have higher test scores: students who have an early start time miss more school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.

As a result, in today's nationally standardized achievement tests, there are many SES - linked items.

The two programs were seen by many conservatives as executive overreach, and when ESEA was reauthorized in 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), NCLB standardized testing requirements were kept, but the evaluation and accountability systems meant to respond to the results of those tests became the responsibility of individual states.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schoolAs a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schoolas traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

In another finding, expected by some to fuel the controversy that surrounds the issue of standardized testing, the test results showed that non-military white youths scored almost twice as high as black civilian youths, with Hispanic civilians scoring in between the levels of the other two groups.

As the standardized test results have shown, today's children aren't showing that they possess the artistry to swallow and regurgitate information.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

High - Stakes Test: A standardized test in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performaTest: A standardized test in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performatest in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performance.

Standardized test results from 2015 and 2016 show disadvantaged students aren't progressing as quickly as wealthier, English - fluent peers.

As any trained researcher would recognize, the relationship between a lack of collective bargaining and lower standardized test results is not necessarily causal.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

The faulty results will not have the same impact as the mistakes made two years ago by CTB / McGraw - Hill, a Monterey, Calif. - based publisher of standardized tests, because the scoring flaw in this case was identified before the results were released publicly.

Instruction, as a result, concentrates on the short answer mirrored in the standardized testing used to judge the success or failure of both institutions and individual students.

National opponents of high - stakes standardized testing say if as few as five or six percent of students were to skip statewide exams, state officials could no longer consider the rest of the test results valid.

• Value - added results, which have recently been touted as a better way to use standardized test scores, are actually no more accurate than year - to - year comparisons of different groups of students.

Other states have laws that protect parents» right to opt their children out or refuse high - stakes standardized testing and no federal financial penalties of any sort have been imposed on schools in those states as a result of these laws.

Of course standardized tests can be used as part of a comprehensive assessment system but they should not make up the majority of the system, nor should their results be used as the deciding factor to make important decisions about students and educators, as is being done in NJ.

Hartford is just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery Ttest results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery TestTest.

In 40 states, teachers are evaluated in part based on the results from student standardized tests, as are school administrators in almost 30 states.

Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized tests (Iowa Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.

Over the several decades that standardized test results have been used as an accountability measure, few have questioned the assumption that these tests provide evidence that actually reflects school quality and that can promote school improvement.

... Although there are modest positive improvements within student achievement indicators,» standardized test results in Grade 10 math are down, as was Grade 9 credit accumulation.

As a result, Westminster's enrollment has stabilized and standardized test scores continue to soar.

Over the border in Georgia, Gwinnett County has developed a «Results - Based Evaluation System,» in which fully 70 percent of the score for schools and their principals is tied to student achievement, as assessed by indicators including standardized test scores and measures of where schools are in closing the achievement gap.

These are hardly groundbreaking results as these proportional movements likely represented one or maybe two total test items on the large - scale standardized tests uses to assess DCPS's policy impacts.

As a result of this onslaught, a growing opt out of standardized testing movement is taking place across the country.

As a result of the policies being pushed by Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, massive amounts of school instruction time will give way to even more standardized test prep and standardized testing.

On the other hand, performance - based assessments such as the edTPA provide a promising approach to reducing reliance on standardized test scores and the resulting racial disparities among the teacher workforce.

As a result, during a collaborative work session, teachers scanned results of their new Smarter Balanced standardized tests.

As teachers, if we focus on the outcome of standardized tests, we may fear the results.

Meanwhile, state Superintendent Tom Torlakson has continued to caution against comparing any Smarter Balanced Assessment scores, including 11th - grade results, with those from previous standardized tests, instead saying this year's scores should only serve as a baseline going forward.

IMPACT was designed to control for variables like the class's income level and English - language proficiency, and scores teachers on two major factors: classroom skill, as determined by multiple evaluations, and results, based on students» improvement on standardized tests.

The local measures could include results from commercial standardized tests, as well as results from teacher - scored assessments.

Demonstrate potential for delivering excellent academic results for K - 12 students, as measured by standardized achievement tests

Standardized tests can not be the only measurement the public gets to interpret on student and school performance since the results are limited as snapshots of the past.

While the district continues to use the standardized WKCE, required across the state as part of No Child Left Behind laws, it's the ACT test results that teachers and students increasingly rely on as a relevant road map for learning.

Results from the state standardized tests known as Smarter Balanced Assessments taken last spring showed that while many subgroups test scores improved from the previous year, results for LA Unified's English language learners were stResults from the state standardized tests known as Smarter Balanced Assessments taken last spring showed that while many subgroups test scores improved from the previous year, results for LA Unified's English language learners were stresults for LA Unified's English language learners were stagnant.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.