Sentences with phrase «state administered some tests»

It's clear to me what it means to be a part of one of the testing consortia — a participating state administers the test to its students.

During an investment analysts call in October, Mr. Packard boasted about results at Agora, calling them «significantly higher than a typical school on state administered tests for growth.»

The state administers tests that are based on state standards in elementary, middle, and high school for English and mathematics, but only at the high school level for science and social studies / history.

They confound the law's requirement that states administer a testing system that covers all children with the non-existent requirement that all children take the test.

First, it required that states administer tests every year in grades 3 — 8 in reading and math; once in high school in reading and math; and once in elementary, middle, and high school for science.

Because many states administered these tests for the first time this past spring, true comparisons to the previous year's tests aren't possible.

The state administers a test an intern must pass to become a pharmacy technician or the pharmacist may submit his or her own test to the state to test the intern.

Not exact matches

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

They continue to take standardized tests administered by their state and they usually add several rounds of SAT's and / or ACT's.

ALBANY — State Regents exams will undergo extra scrutiny following the discovery of three flaws in a recently administered geometry test — one of them reported by a 16 - year - old East Setauket student.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the burgeoning movement to opt out students from state - administered tests shows «frustration» with the state's system of assessing students and evaluating teachers.

Districts would be required to use state - administered standardized assessments as a component in the ratings, but they would also have the option to use an additional test that would also be designed by the state.

In a show of opposition to Governor Cuomo's education policies, Ken - Ton's School Board voted this week to «seriously consider not administering» the state's mandatory math and English tests to students in grades 3 through 8.

She says the superintendents wanted her to talk to State Education Department lawyers on the legalities of administering the unpopular tests.

In 2015, Questar received a five - year, $ 44 million contract from New York to develop and administer state testing.

The company administering state tests Wednesday may be the one getting the bad grades from schools.

«In recent months, parents and teachers have expressed the need for common core tests and results to be made available to the teachers who administer the exams,» the bill memo states.

An unauthorized user accessed personal information of 31 Nassau students and 21 others statewide who took a computer - based exam last spring administered by a Minnesota - based testing firm, company and state education officials said.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

Elia and her aides noted that federal law requires state tests to be administered to students annually, regardless of whether assessments are also used in rating job performance of school employees.

Most of the state's school children did not measure up in new tests administered last year.

On the competence test the Kaduna governor recently administered on teachers in the state, he said: «All these are to be considered to teach El - Rufai a lesson that no other governor will follow him to set that bad example.

She says the superintendents wanted her to talk to state Education Department lawyers on the legalities of administering the unpopular tests.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

This year, the state English language arts test for grades three through eight is being given April 5 - 7, while the math test will be administered April 13 - 15.

Questar administers New York State standardized tests in English Language Arts and mathematics for elementary and middle school students in grades three through eight.

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

The resolution up for discussion in Comsewogue says the board «will seriously consider not administering the New York State standardized ELA and math exams in grades 3 - 8, and the science exam in grades 4 and 8,» citing disagreement with state funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scState standardized ELA and math exams in grades 3 - 8, and the science exam in grades 4 and 8,» citing disagreement with state funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scstate funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Elia says her style will be «collaborative», and she says she will work with the teachers and their union and seek their input designing the tests, which will be administered by a new company, Questar, after the state severed it's ties with another company after criticism about the process.

Parents and teachers have confronted state Education Commissioner John King in public meetings, saying children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

New York State in 2015 awarded a five - year, $ 44 million contract to Questar to develop its tests and provide platforms for administering the tests by computer.

In the 1990s Darling - Hammond points out, some American states had begun to administer such tests; that effort ended with the passage of No Child Left Behind.

The paperwork also stated the hospital would face a $ 7500 penalty if researchers failed to administer some additional tests on anxiety and depression.

A comprehensive computerised six - task cognitive test battery, the profile of mood states questionnaire and the symptom questionnaire (headache, concentration and task difficulty) were administered during each trial.

Back in 2013, 12 Atlanta educators — including five teachers and a principal — were indicted following years of suspicion regarding how Atlanta students had improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, which is administered throughout the state of Georgia.

In Indiana, schools must administer the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress assessment and report their graduation rates to the states.

In Louisiana, participating private schools that serve more than forty voucher students must administer all of the state tests to them.

then it's going to be tough for a single «score report» from a distant state test administered months earlier to convince us otherwise.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

The state contracted with private, nonprofit organizations to develop new curricula aligned to the common core, developed a web site that included sample lessons and professional - development materials, and then developed a new assessment tied to the standards and administered it in the spring of 2013 — two years before most states had planned to put new tests in place.

Also figuring into this years planning is the states first test of science skills, which will be administered to fifth graders and is designed to assess what students learned in third - through - fifth grades.

Participating private schools should be required to administer and report results from the state achievement tests.

We analyzed the test - score improvements made between each student's first 3rd - grade year and the following year on both the state's own accountability exam and the Stanford - 9, a nationally normed exam administered at the same time as the FCAT but not used for accountability purposes.

Using the Connecticut state standards and previously released test items from the state's standardized test, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six wetest items from the state's standardized test, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six wetest, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six weTest, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six weeks.

«Some supporters of the Act contend that early gains in state test scores mean that the Act is being administered effectively and is succeeding, so no changes are needed.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Schools, districts, and other organizations can now administer the survey tools in both English and Spanish to easily assess the current state of their parent — school relationships or test whether their efforts to improve these relationships are working.

How many voucher schools were already aligned with the state curriculum and / or administered the state test?