Sentences with phrase «statewide achievement tests»

Those early - on decisions will have a powerful influence on the kinds of statewide achievement tests ultimately employed.

While at AIR, he worked on alternate assessments, Braille and LEP accommodations for statewide achievement tests at grades K - 8.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

First, the court concluded that the state has a compelling interest in (a) not socially promoting third - graders who do not exhibit the requisite reading proficiency and (b) receiving federal education funding, which requires 95 percent participation in specified statewide achievement testing.

On this year's statewide achievement test, students at mayor - sponsored charter schools were 11 percentage points more likely to achieve proficiency in English, and 10 points more likely to achieve proficiency in math, than were students of local public schools, according to an analysis by the Indianapolis Mayor's Office of Education.

It is more likely, however, that this enlargement of statewide achievement testing will only heighten the harmful effects that most of today's state - level achievement tests are having on children.

Not exact matches

High Achievement New York, a statewide group supporting the Common Core standards and the tests, is increasing its campaign with robo calls and radio ads.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

Our data on student achievement come from the Washington State Assessment of Student Learning, a statewide test given annually in 3rd through 8th grade as well as in 10th grade.

The Palmetto State Teachers Association questioned the value of the state's testing regimen, noting on its web site, «The current statewide tests do not provide immediate diagnostic information needed to improve student achievement or provide information to help teachers plan to meet the needs of each student.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

The absence of a statewide student achievement test limited the means by which the cost to Wyoming of such a high - performing school system could be determined.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

This report presents the results of a project to estimate the percentage of U.S. elementary and secondary students being assessed on deeper learning skills through statewide mathematics and English language arts achievement tests at the beginning of the Deeper Learning Initiative.

High Achievement New York, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, administrators as well as community and business leaders in support of Common Core, is promoting the tests statewide, including statements from Brenda McDuffie, president and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League, and Samuel Radford, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council of Buffalo.

One dominant model is the streamlined letter - grade system first adopted by Florida, which focuses on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

Some favor a simple letter - grade system for schools based on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

Using statewide longitudinal data, the study analyzes dual - credit participation rates by race / ethnicity, gender and math and reading achievement on state tests and examines differences in outcomes for dual - credit participants and nonparticipants.

Bethesda's collaborative efforts transformed student achievement: For the past two years, it has been among the top 10 percent of Georgia's Title I schools, making the most progress in improving the performance of all students on statewide tests.

Respondents included only union teachers, who routinely oppose statewide tests as the chief criteria for measuring students» academic achievement.

Despite promises from achievement school district backers that some of Tennessee's most troubled schools would be vaulted into the top 25 percent of schools statewide, standardized testing scores have shown no «statistically significant» difference in the district's schools, according to Henry's research.

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The report found that twice as many foster youth performed «below basic» and «far below basic» on state academic achievement tests than students statewide, were much more likely to drop out than any other at - risk student group, and only 58 percent of foster youth 12th graders graduated as compared to 84 percent of all 12th graders in California.

Results support the use of oral reading fluency assessment as a valid tool for identifying students at risk of not passing the statewide reading achievement test.

We find that California's school children did much better in the second year of the new statewide standardized tests, though achievement gaps have not substantially narrowed.

The latest state test scores don't offer many statewide trends beyond stagnation and persistent achievement gaps.

Additionally, ESSA requires states to annually test 95 percent of students in reading and math, to use the participation rate to calculate the achievement indicator, and to factor assessment participation into the statewide accountability system another way.21 For example, four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont — plan to lower a school's classification for not meeting this requirement.22 In three states — Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee — schools that do not have a 95 percent participation rate can not score at the highest level of proficiency; receive zero points for proficiency; or receive an F on the achievement indicator for the given group of students, respectively.23

The federal Race to the Top grant competition tried to stimulate competition among state departments of education to evaluate teachers and commit their state to participate in statewide tests (based on Common Core's inferior standards), as if teachers, in general, were the problem, and as if these state departments of education, in general, were staffed by people who had effectively addressed low achievement.

By excluding the use of student scores on statewide mastery examinations in teacher evaluations curriculum emphasis can return to a well - rounded experience instead of the narrow focus of artificial achievement in the form of test preparation.

We use data on statewide end - of - course tests in North Carolina to examine the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level.

In 1968, Popham established IOX Assessment Associates, a research and development group that created statewide student achievement tests for a dozen states.