Sentences with phrase «state exam pass rates»

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State education officials are eyeing a plan that could «recalibrate» — and presumably lower — passing scores on a challenging new teacher licensing exam that has produced a failure rate of more than 20 percent since it was introduced statewide in 2015.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

Its system of identifying low - performing teacher - preparation programs considers: the accreditation status of the teacher education unit; passing rates on teacher - certification exams; and results from the state's performance assessments of classroom teachers.

In announcing the 2000 test results last week, Virginia education officials said that 22 percent, or 406 of the state's 1,874 public schools, had posted acceptable passing rates on the state's rigorous Standards of Learning exams administered to students last spring.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

What hadn't changed, it appeared, were the academic numbers: the city's dropout rate, over 11 percent, was more than 4 times greater than the state average, and only 47 percent of its 4th graders passed the state's English Language Arts exam in 2001 - 02.

No wonder 100 percent of Success 4th graders and 8th graders passed the 2014 state science exams, 99 percent scoring an advanced rating.

The data help explain the disconnect between the relatively high pass rates on many state tests and the low scores on the national exams, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

SA scholars passed state reading exams at more than twice the rate of district students, and three times the rate of New York City's black and Hispanic students.

In the 19 states that have such exit exams, the percentage of English - language learners who pass the mathematics exit exam on the first try is 30 to 40 percentage points lower than the overall initial pass rates, which range from 70 to 90 percent.

More recently, low initial pass rates by high - school students on state exams led to calls for him to criticize the state standards and exams, which he refused to do.

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.

When the state took control of the district in 2009, the pass rate on the high school algebra exit exam was only 45 percent.

Under the plan, Asian students are expected to achieve a higher pass rate on state exams than white students, while the state sets lower goals for Hispanic, black and special - education students.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

And after computer glitches during the administration of spring exams had state education officials asking for an outside review of the results, a 2.5 percent increase in pass rates seems like the best possible scenario.

Computer glitches that delayed administration of the spring ISTEP + exam did not have a noticeable impact on scores — in fact, the state's passing rate was up about two percentage points from last year.

Some studies show positive effects on attendance and outcomes in smaller districts, although a 2010 Georgia study found students had improved passing rates on state - administered exams in larger districts.

This in turn led to increases in pass rates on state exams in English (+7 %) and U.S. History (+16 %).

As a result, the school has witnessed dramatic increases in student performance on state tests — including a 100 percent pass rate on the 2016 Common Core English Regents exam — as well as an improved graduation rate and college retention rate.

The district, rated «Academically Acceptable» by the state education agency for the past 2 years, had a 60 % pass rate on the state standardized eighth - grade mathematics assessment exam.

Educator Preparation Institutes such as Teachers of Tomorrow offer guidance and resources needed for state test preparation, including Subject Area Exams, the Professional Education Test, and the GKT — which only has a 30 % pass rate right now.

City schools» pass rates on state reading and math exams took a hit last year with the introduction of tougher new academic standards called the Common Core.

The article itself notes that graduation rates and percentage of students passing the state exams have improved dramatically.

After one year, students experienced a passing rate of 75 percent on state end - of - course exams.

Instead of going with the cut score that was adopted by the SBAC coordinating committee last November, an unfair rating system that was adopted with the support of Governor Dannel Malloy's representatives, the Washington State Board of Education choose a new «passing» level, «where about as many kids are expected to pass the exams as passed the state's previous tests.&rState Board of Education choose a new «passing» level, «where about as many kids are expected to pass the exams as passed the state's previous tests.&rstate's previous tests.»

Making adjustments to state teacher licensure requirements to allow teaching candidates to demonstrate their competency through rigorous but more authentic performance assessments, such as the edTPA, that do not have the degree of racial disparity in pass rates that traditional exams have had.

A year after a switch to new standardized tests for public school students caused passing rates to plummet, leaders of both political parties in the New York Legislature on Tuesday called on the state to back away from plans to use those exams to grade teachers.

Darling - Hammond, Rustique - Forrester, and Pecheone (2005) reported that graduation rates stayed the same or declined slightly from 1998 to 2001 in five states that required students to pass an exit exam (Indiana, North Carolina, New York, Florida, and South Carolina).

Johnson's six - year superintendency saw the test scores of our students fall from next to the top of major Texas districts to next to the bottom, aided by gradually lowered pass rates on the state's TAKS exam.

However, although all of the previous statistics are provided through the BASIS charter website, the results on the Arizona standardized exam, AzMerit, support the trend of the provided information: on the 2016 exam, the statewide percentage of students grades 5 through 11 had a passing rate on the mathematics portion of anywhere between 26 - 46 % and a passing rate on the English language arts portion of anywhere between 29 - 45 % (Department Releases Preliminary 2015 - 2016 State Level AzMerit Results).

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The school's third grade pass rate on the state reading exam was more than twice the district's average, and they performed better on the math exam as well, but comparisons are shaky, due to the small number who took the exam.

Last year, New Mexico showed the fastest rate of improvement of any state in its high school graduation rate, and a higher percentage of Latino students took and passed AP exams than in any other state.

All schools are ranked based on state reading and mathematics assessments, graduation rates, and a College Readiness Index that takes into consideration the percentage of students at each school who took and passed AP and IB exams.

Harris, Elizabeth A. «Passing Rate Declines by 20 % as State Uses New Certification Exams for Teachers.»

«With more than 700,000 adults taking high school equivalency exams annually and pass rates well below 70 percent in many states, ensuring success on these tests is not only crucial to the personal and professional success of adult learners taking them — it's also vital to the continued strength of our national workforce and economy,» said Peter Cohen, president of McGraw - Hill School Education Group, in a press release today.

The program has been recognized twice as an exemplary program by the Texas State Coordinating Board for Colleges and Universities and its students have one of the highest success rates in passing the state and national board exams among the 221 accredited programs in the United States, Canada, New Mexico and Puerto State Coordinating Board for Colleges and Universities and its students have one of the highest success rates in passing the state and national board exams among the 221 accredited programs in the United States, Canada, New Mexico and Puerto state and national board exams among the 221 accredited programs in the United States, Canada, New Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Verna, several American states do have a high bar exam failure rate, but many of those who initially fail ultimately pass because you can write the exams several times.

If the October 27, 2015 reports with headlines such as the one at the WSJ blog state «New York Bar Exam Pass Rate Hits Historic Low» then New York unlike Ontario's Law Society doesn't mind being the bad guy.

Rough notes: When I first started, students were passing state exams at the dismal rate of 67 percent.

Achieved an 87 % passing rate, i.e. a three or above, for my students on the Advanced Placement United States history and Advanced Placement American government exams

Key Highlights: • Instrumental in achieving 42 % pass rate in the New York State Regents exam.

«But what really drew me to the MAEd: Counseling program was its multicultural focus, CACREP accreditation, high pass rate for the state licensure exam, and the structure of evening classes.»