Sentences with phrase «standardized test scores make»

Although not the sole measure, standardized test scores make up the bulk of school quality assessments.

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Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

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Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

There are too many problems with standardized tests — how they are constructed, the baggage students bring into the testing room from their regular lives, etc. — to make any serious decisions based on their score of a single test.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

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.

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!

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

One study [PDF] documenting schools that made this shift found that 60 % of students were able to get at least eight hours of sleep and that both attendance rates and standardized tests scores went up.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectiveness.

With a better understanding of why it is so inane — and destructive — to evaluate schools using students» scores on the wrong species of standardized tests, you can persuade anyone who'll listen that policy makers need to make better choices.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

Although the school still ranks as «low achieving,» students have made progress on standardized test scores, according to O'Blines.

Attending a Boston charter school makes special education students 1.4 times more likely to score proficient or higher on their standardized tests, resulting in a 30 percent reduction of the special education achievement gap.

A: For subjects tested by the state standardized assessment, New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing a student's growth to the growth made by that student's academic peers (students from around the state with similar score histories).

In cases where standardized tests are administered annually to all students, student growth percentiles, or SGPs, provide a simple way of making this comparison because they show how each student's test - score growth ranks among academically similar students.

In reality, however, what makes a test «standardized» is that it was carefully developed to ensure validity (i.e., it actually measures what it purports to measure) and then administered and scored in a standardized manner in order to help ensure the reliability (i.e., it produces consistent results).

«The more time students spent using the popular DreamBox blended - learning math software, the greater progress they made, according to a study of standardized tests scores and student - usage logs by Harvard researchers.

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.

While observers will judge Bloomberg and Klein's tenure using standardized test scores — and even they agree those scores are important measures — Klein has made no secret of the fact that he wishes his team's work to be marked in the end by significant upticks in both the graduation rate and the numbers of students who pass basic tests in order to qualify for a Regents diploma.

But blunting the policy's potential impact, the union also made clear that it continued to oppose the use of existing standardized test scores to judge teachers, a core part of the federally backed teacher evaluation overhauls already under way in at least 15 states.

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

That said, the NACAC study revealed that about a third of selective colleges stated that a small increase in standardized test scores could make a difference in their admission decision.

The «temporary» period would run until one year after the school district had made substantial gains in their standardized test scores.

The recent ubiquity of standardized test scores has provided new data on just how poorly some schools are performing — particularly schools filled with lower - income and minority students, whose parents make up an important Democratic voting base.

From 2008 to 2013, Grattan improved standardized test scores from 787 to 923 points on a scale of 1,000, making it one of the district's academically best - performing elementary schools.

Some Hartford school officials have apparently joined the ranks of those who have engaged in cheating to make their students» standardized test scores look better.

Senate leader Darrell Steinberg unveiled a far - reaching education package Wednesday that would make career technical education a critical component of standardized test scores, college entrance requirements, and teacher training.

No important academic decision about a student, a teacher, an administrator, a school or a district should be made solely on one type of evidence, such as standardized test scores.

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.

Standardized test scores, district level assessments, report cards, and discipline referrals provide us with valuable insight that we use to make many key decisions.

They believe that tougher standards, and eventually higher standardized test scores, will make America more competitive in the global brain race.

The index, based largely on how well students score on standardized tests such as the Stanford 9, is part of a 3 - year - old carrot - and - stick program designed to make schools more accountable.

The multi-billion dollar testing industry — dominated by a few large corporations that specialize in the making and scoring of standardized tests — has become an entrenched interest, a powerful component of a growing education - industrial complex.

But it's also garnered lots of criticism for its focus on standardized test - scores and its system of rating schools according to whether they make «adequate yearly progress.»

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools students made gains in state standardized test scores, but the majority still fell short of the state standards.

State board President Michael Kirst and other members have made it clear that they intend to replace the API, which calculates a three - digit number based primarily on a school's or district's standardized test scores, with a new system in which test scores would be just one of many measures of student achievement and school performance.

Ryan discusses how top - down decision making, a lack of voice and standardized test scores contribute to teachers lower levels of satisfaction.

He said standardized test scores are not necessarily the major factors in making teacher evaluations and that alternative data is vital to consider as well, including local standardized exams, portfolio assessments and teacher evaluations.

«Using standardized test scores to make high stakes decisions about teachers, and therefore schools, is very problematic,» Caputo - Pearl said.

A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so - called «value - added» rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted.

On standardized tests almost every question is a «word problem» of some sort, which makes language even more important for scoring well on the tests.

The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.

Whether algorithms can make such predictions or not, «in an era where we are looking at testing bias and social - emotional learning standards, the very definition of a good teacher being measured only by students» standardized test scores is faulty,» Vieth writes.