Sentences with phrase «statewide standardized testing system»

Recommendation: Any large - scale statewide standardized testing system should be limited to sample testing in three benchmark years only.

Not exact matches

The centerpiece of the agenda was a statewide teacher evaluation system that would tie half of a teacher's rating to their students» performance on standardized tests.

Todd is also the statewide leader on access to diplomas for special needs students, as well as fixing New York's broken standardized testing system for public school students.

New teacher evaluation systems, meanwhile, judge educators on their students» performance on statewide standardized tests, or the pre - and post-assessments they've devised to determine how much their students have learned that year in their classrooms.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

Those systems lean heavily on the results of standardized, statewide reading and math tests.

That system, like many under development around the country, will be based in part on how a teacher's students perform on statewide standardized tests.

The latest study focuses on six Boston schools that, in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements in students» performance in the statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

The centerpiece of the agenda was a statewide teacher evaluation system that would tie half of a teacher's rating to their students» performance on standardized tests.

Among their objections: the requirement of a statewide teacher evaluation system that includes the use of standardized test data.

Both the statewide accountability system and Indiana's teacher evaluation law draw on data collected from standardized tests.