Sentences with phrase «statewide mastery tests»

A town's district performance index is its students» weighted performance on the statewide mastery tests in reading, writing, and mathematics given in grades three through eight and 10, and science in grades five, eight, and 10.

Connecticut law mandates that students take a «statewide mastery test,» defined as «an examination which measures whether or not a student has mastered essential grade - level skills in reading, language arts and mathematics.»

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The tests include open - ended questions to better assess students» content mastery; and, with some exceptions for special education students with specific testing accommodations, the tests will be administered entirely online to students statewide within five years.

Connecticut law states that children must take a statewide test that measures mastery.

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.

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.

On the old Connecticut Mastery Tests, the average Madison student score ranged from 86 to 94, while the statewide averages hovered between 63 and 76 -LRB-