Sentences with phrase «state test score gains»

LOS ANGELES — Robin Wynne Davis was taken aback last year when the state test score gains of her third - grade students at Melrose Elementary School labeled her a less - than - stellar teacher.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

Not exact matches

A four - year moratorium on use of student scores on Common Core state tests to evaluate job performances by teachers and principals gained quick and overwhelming preliminary approval Monday from the state Board of Regents.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caustate standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with cauState and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

The agreement allows the new evaluation system to proceed, but delays the impact of state test scores until teachers have gained experience with Common Core standards and tests.

«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.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

But other states with large spending increments — New York, Wyoming, and West Virginia, for example — had only marginal test - score gains to show for all that additional expenditure.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

States should report how a school's test scores and test - score gains compare with the scores and gains of demographically similar schools across the state and locally.

The reports show educators at all levels struggling to implement a dramatic and extremely complex change in federal education policy, which radically alters the role of federal and state governments while imposing unprecedented responsibilities and accountability for test score gains.

More than 20 states now require that student test - score gains be used in key personnel decisions, often including tenure and salary determinations.

Among African Americans, test - score gains were also larger in the states with genuine alternative certification.

On the Nation's Report Card's main tests, 4th and 8th grade reading and math scored gains in 49 of 50 states.

These are the states at the bottom of the heap when it comes to test - score gains as measured by CREDO and other sophisticated analyses.

This year, the state of California distributed $ 100 million to teachers in schools that started with test scores in the bottom half of schools in 1999 and achieved large gains in performance between 1999 and 2000.

It is possible that the disproportionately large gains in test - score performance in the states with genuine alternative certification were due to some other factor, possibly other education reforms those states were introducing at the same time they were widening the door to the teaching profession.

In states that had genuine alternative certification, test - score gains on the NAEP exceeded those in the other states by 4.8 points and 7.6 points in 4th - and 8th - grade math, respectively.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

Consequently, many states now claim dramatic improvement in their test scores, but these gains are not reflected on the tests given every other year by the federal government.

In the case of the Recovery School District in Louisiana, there was a period of strong gains in state test scores to buttress this belief.

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

Nor is it the frequency with which states and districts manipulate the scoring of the tests to produce inflated gains.

All schools with at least 30 students in grades 3 — 10 in two or more consecutive years will have standardized test score gains analyzed by state researchers.

Achievement can be measured quantitatively, and we have seen gains in state and national testing results such as the SAT and AP test scores.

And many states defied the theory [that «additional spending on education will yield gains in test scores»] by showing gains even when they did not commit much in the way of additional resources.»

For alternative schools like Sunshine, the state calculates those ratings based on gains in test scores.

In the meantime, the Bloomberg administration has some positive test scores under its belt already, including an impressive 9.9 percentage point gain for 4th graders on the state's most recent reading tests, the largest jump since the test was initiated in 1999.

East Rock was one of three schools honored in 2003 by the Connecticut Department of Education for making substantial gains on the state's mastery test scores since 2000.

The Gates» foundation also «bought» many of the Common Core State Standards initiatives and it funds multi-state projects where teachers who produce above average gains in test scores are defined as «effective.»

In the very next sentence, he points out that the MET project has two stated premises guiding its work — that, whenever feasible, teacher evaluations should be based «to a significant extent» on student test score gains; and that other components of evaluations (such as observations), in order to be considered valid, must be correlated with test score gains.

In one year, Troy's students have posted incredible gains on Idaho's Standard Achievement Test (ISAT), jumping 22 points in ELA to rank in the top 11 districts in the state and more than tripling the percent of their students scoring Advanced on the Math assessment.

A new study of international and U.S. state trends in student achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely in the middle of a group of 49 nations in 4th and 8th grade test score gains in math, reading, and science over the period 1995 - 2009.

The San Diego - area Barona Indian Charter School, for example, posted big gains in student performance on standardized test scores in the 2003 - 2004 school year, besting the state average.

The northwest Tennessee district has maintained a trajectory of increasing academic expectations for many years, netting strong gains in math over the last three years and ACT test scores above the state average.

And it adds certainty that the state will require all teachers and principals to be evaluated in part by their students» test score gains beginning in 2013 - 14.

Though scores have risen on the state's TAAS test, the gains usually fail to appear even on other tests.

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

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Last fall, state test scores showed that the elementary school had the highest math gains of any traditional school in the LA Unified district.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincescores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sinceScores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

But on a state level, efforts to change and clarify existing teacher evaluations laws and the use of state test scores have gained some traction in recent years.

«Combining observation scores, student feedback, and student achievement gains was better than graduate degrees or years of teaching experience at predicting a teacher's student achievement gains with another group of students on the state tests».

This movement has gained much steam within the past few years as many states have suddenly reduced the amount of testing they required and repealed legislation that tied test scores to areas such as teacher evaluations and student promotion.

Students who score at Level 4 will be exempt from having to take English or math placement tests after they gain admission to a California State University campus.

LA Unified's scores on state standardized tests continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains, according to results released Wednesday.

Studies show that one - third of the variance in test score gains in North Carolina result from «luck of the draw,» according to FairTest, while a half million students in Virginia have been miscategorized due to their state test's imprecision.

Following test scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performatest scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performaTest (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performatest results, rather than overall improvements in performance.