Sentences with phrase «standardized test scores as»

Underlying the Big Data approach is a myopic focus on standardized test scores as the sole measure of student learning.

Current accountability approaches, however, usually rely on large - scale standardized test scores as the sole indicator of teachers» effectiveness.

More low - income students are enrolling in college, thanks to expanded needs - based scholarship and grant programs, a move away from standardized test scores as part of the application process, and other initiatives designed to recruit more diverse students.

Using any standardized achievement test for a purpose for which it was not designed violates nationally - accepted standards of the testing profession, of the state of Illinois and the U. S. Department of Education, and the guidelines of the test makers themselves (see Attachment 2 — PURE Fact Sheet: «Testing professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions»).

The district's performance review system for teachers and administrators — which is in its second year of testing and development — uses standardized test scores as one measure of how much a teacher has helped students progress.

«Multimetric accountability systems should use formative assessments, evidence of student learning, and progress toward personal growth objectives to measure student and teacher success rather than rely on standardized test scores as the primary reference point.»

Policies that use standardized test scores as the most important accountability measure for schools, teachers or students, and / or expand the use of standardized testing in our schools.

We chose the schools based on several factors, including recommendations from experts and high standardized test scores as well as attendance and graduation rates.

In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as Academic Growth over Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student achievement.

In this book (released with a documentary film), Vicki Abeles continues the campaign against standardized test scores as the primary measure of student achievement that she began with her 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere.

Of course, their favorite models are those that utilize standardized test scores as the primary mechanism for identifying which teachers are «good» and which are «bad.»

Brown and the State Board balked at the stipulation that the state require districts to use standardized test scores as a measure of student academic growth when evaluating teachers.

When asked to assess the success of the interventions, Galvez cited district reports on standardized test scores as evidence of improvement, although he acknowledged that district data shows test scores had been climbing before LAUSD beefed up the intervention program.

All the statements and signals from the board and its advisers point toward downplaying standardized test scores as the sole or even primary element in a new accountability system.

They could include state standardized test scores as well as class projects, portfolios, grades and presentations.

The district has instituted a voluntary evaluation system that includes student growth on state standardized test scores as one factor in measuring a teacher's effectiveness.

District officials like to tout rising standardized test scores as evidence of progress — as Bowser and Wilson did repeatedly Wednesday.

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

Bucking a national trend, the new system will not use standardized test scores as a direct measure of performance.

Many U.S. colleges require that undergraduate and graduate students submit standardized test scores as part of their application packages.

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

Not exact matches

IQ tests use a standardized scale with 100 as the median score.

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Eating breakfast improves academic performance, health, and behavior; that means better performance on standardized tests, improved concentration and memory, better math scores, better attendance and fewer tardies, as well as fewer behavioral referrals to the front office.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

Infants would be examined by medical providers at regular intervals for the presence of atopic dermatitis (using standardized scoring methods) as well as food allergic symptoms and other allergic disease (confirmed by IgE testing), and not just the presence of allergic sensitization.

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.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Not long ago, many prominent Democrats — including President Barack Obama — supported charter schools and other centrist education policies, such as linking teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

The «growth score» is a state - produced calculation quantifying students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling factors such as poverty.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

As the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.&raquAs the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.&raquas] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.»

Scores on standardized tests of academic areas such as reading, spelling, and math were analyzed.

In the conventional approach to measuring IQ, a person is given a standardized test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and their score on the test is assumed to reflect their level of intelligence (with some amount of random error).

For example, Subject 2, whose scores on standardized tests showed impaired memory and executive function, had an 86.9 % reduction in excess path length for locations learned during stimulation, as compared with those learned without stimulation.

Nevaeh got out of school yesterday and made all A's on her report card as well as pass her standardized tests with advanced scores woohoo!

When neither of those pan out as planned, Elizabeth hatches a scheme to steal an advance copy of the state's standardized test to earn the incentive bonus her school awards to the teacher with the highest scores.

Given the current test score fetishization, sophisticated tracking technologies like those employed by OHSU presages the day when every micro teacher and learner signal that can be captured will be quantified and standardized, leading to teaching as a paint - by - numbers activity.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

(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.)

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

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.

This may reflect a parental preference for their children to enjoy school, or it might reflect parental preferences for teachers who emphasize academic facets that increase student satisfaction but are not captured by standardized test scores, such as critical thinking or curiosity.