Sentences with phrase «state assessment efforts»

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We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the future?

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Leaders of Long Island's anti-testing movement, whose boycott efforts captured national attention last year, are expanding their campaign of encouraging parents and students to opt out of the state's standardized Common Core assessments, scheduled for next month.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said during an appearance in Westbury last week that the agency is approaching electronic assessment «slowly, cautiously,» in an effort to avoid mistakes associated with hurried reforms in past years.

Annual assessments will still be required, and the state will establish «long - term goals» to measure student progress in an effort to bring up low - performing schools.

Sherman says the study was a collaborative effort involving participants with Down syndrome, their families and assessment sites across the United States, including those mentioned above along with Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children's National Medical Center and Ohio Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Within days of the accident in Tulare, federal, state and county public health officials turned to a new assessment tool in an effort to reduce chemical accidents.

The power of that approach was amplified by another school - improvement effort: Skandera's department had also been reworking the state's end - of - course exams and early - grade assessments, as part of its efforts to implement Common Core standards.

The most extensive cross state effort to implement the common core standards is being undertaken by the two state consortia that are developing the assessments to measure student performance against them.

The level of activity states are engaged in, the possibilities offered by technology and cross state collaborations, and the extraordinary effort to develop new assessments all suggest that the common core standards might generate some real changes in classroom instruction.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

Why is it that today just eleven states use a Common Core assessment, less than a third of the states are judged to have made any effort to adhere to the Core, and the phrase «Common Core» remains polarizing and generally unpopular with Republicans, parents, and teachers?

«The shared value [of these efforts] would be increased expectation for student performance, especially over previous state assessments,» she said.

Despite frenzied efforts to support new assessments, instructional materials, and implementation during 2011 - 2014, interviews from that era with state legislators, district officials, educators, and parents showed remarkably little awareness of the costs and practical difficulties that lay ahead.

Thus, the department will now use results from state assessments in addition to NAEP to evaluate states» efforts on this front.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

All of this extra effort is aimed at meeting student needs identified by state assessments and helping Holton High make AYP, Beam added.

What gets me excited are the efforts springing up at state levels to find alternatives to testing that can serve as appropriate instruments of accountability and assessment.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

The risk here is aggravated by the fact that the Common Core effort has now largely been handed off to state assessment directors, test developers, psychometricians, and overworked staff at a few national organizations — and these well - meaning people aren't necessarily interested in or sensitive to the broader impact of their handiwork.

And I think it's worth noting how heavily this nonpartisan, state - led effort has come to rely on the funding and enthusiastic support of the Obama administration when it comes to assessments and testing.

In standards and accountability, there is room for the state to ratchet up its efforts related to standards and assessment.

As the issue threatens to become more polarizing, legislative and lobbying efforts are underway in states across the country to pause, review, or repeal the standards, their accompanying assessments, or both.

States may abandon the digital effort when they see the up - front costs of implementing an online assessment system.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

This year's special focus on state efforts to develop common standards and assessments, featured elsewhere in the report, also draws...

States and test vendors should improve their efforts to ensure that schools have access to actionable student assessment results in time to inform their planning activities.

Efforts to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments with Common Core State Standards have intensified as the pressure escalates for states and districts that will administer the new summative tests to students this spring.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Specifically I asked him if he'd consider that effort a failure if each consortia did not establish a common «cut score» on their assessment rather than states being able to establish their own definitions?

Includes updates on state and federal legislation, reports on test misuse and efforts to stop it and profiles of promising new assessment systems.

existing educational policies that can inform advocacy efforts for the inclusion of social studies performance - based assessment at the local, state and national level.

A small group of governors joined together in an effort to improve their states» standards and assessments.

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

«Academic standards and state assessments are an important component of the state's effort to ensure that our students are prepared to pursue post-secondary degrees or careers after graduation.»

It explores state and local policies that support the use of such assessments, along with emerging higher education efforts to incorporate them in college admission, placement, and advising.

The New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) continues New York State's efforts to provide English Language Learners with a test that is consistent with the Common Core, the New Language Progressions, and current advances in the field of language assessment.

One of the few studies of on - demand assessment to report specifically by subject area is based on data from the New Standards Project, a multistate effort designed to involve educators in the creation of state and district performance - based assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics (Resnick, Resnick, & DeStefano, 1993).

At a time when teacher education was truly valued in the state, our joint efforts placed Indiana as one of the front runners in best practices in teacher preparation and the use of performance - based assessments.

These include Alignment Institutes; the ADP Assessment Consortium, which allows states to share best practices and drive improvements in effective assessment; and the College - and Career - Ready Policy Institute, a comprehensive technical assistance effort supporting work in eight states with support from a number of other national partners.

Central administrators made no effort to revise district policy on student assessment despite significant revisions of the state's reading test.

In a series of studies, literacy researchers at the National Reading Research Center (NRRC)(Afflerbach, Almasi, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1996; Almasi, Afflerbach, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1995; Guthrie, Schafer, Afflerbach, & Almasi, 1994) investigated the effects of the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), a multipronged reform effort that includes learning outcomes, a performance assessment, guidelines for school decision - making, and suggestions for staff development.

State officials» efforts to improve students» reading and language arts achievement with their newly designed end - of - grade assessments.

Members of the State Board of Education approved today multiple alternative assessment methods for determining third grade reading proficiency, which were put forth by local school districts in an effort to reduce the burdensome testing methods that have...

States can use ESSA to provide guidance and financial support for district efforts to increase assessment literacy.

A founding partner of Student Achievement Partners, Susan now works tirelessly to support curriculum, assessment, and professional development efforts to ensure full implementation in states and districts that have adopted the Common Core State Standards (or their near equivalent).

This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large - scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability.

Other efforts to embrace Common Core State Standards include classroom assessments based on standards, student and parent conferences and MAP, the district's universal screener / benchmark assessment, to support more differentiated instruction and identify students for targeted supports.

To support regional capacity - building efforts to better serve the state's ELs, Icela became one of the state's only WIDA - certified trainers on the English language proficiency standards and assessments.