Sentences with phrase «statewide tests»

State officials look at all of the students who scored the same on statewide tests in a given year.

I also focus on students with at least two years of scores on annual statewide tests in math and reading, to account for past performance and measure their progress over time.

Then, statewide tests for 5th, 8th and 11th graders would start in 2019.

In 2006, most states were in their first years of statewide testing programs.

The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performance of students on these tests for every school.

To view our interactive map of statewide test scores for public school corporations across the state in 2012, click here.

This test will give us a baseline of what to work on with your children in preparation for the new statewide test next year.

Going up the food chain, schools and districts absolutely deserve to know how statewide test results will be used, especially for accountability purposes, before the tests are administered.

Last, I might reflect a tad on the high stakes involved with statewide tests.

Its law prohibits statewide tests used for compliance with federal law to be used for evaluating teachers.

But what about educators who teach subjects like art and music, where students don't take statewide tests?

Every educator knows that statewide tests don't tell us everything we need to know about student performance.

So every day, between 15 and 50 percent of her class time was spent having students do problems from old statewide tests and then going over the individual questions.

Against heavy opposition, I had pushed hard to begin statewide testing of our public school students.

Others worry that with 50 different statewide tests, the federal government will lack a meaningful tool with which to compare test scores across state lines.

Indeed, schools that score high on statewide tests receive high evaluations from those surveyed.

Finally, the status data available right now are only process data, roughly akin to # pencils used and # sheets of paper consumed for prior paper / pencil statewide tests.

The new assessments will be computer - based, allowing for a much broader range of test questions than the multiple - choice exams given under the previous statewide tests.

Assessments Bottom line: The bill maintains statewide testing every year in third through eighth grade and once in high school.

The score, derived from multiple statewide tests, ranges from 200 to 1,000, and 800 is the state's target for each school.

Schools can build on statewide testing with their own «authentic» assessments of student learning, such as portfolios or demonstrations.

The early release of statewide test scores and participation rates show improved results and a stable rate of opt - out (press release).

To make the work even more challenging, the state last year changed its learning standards and rolled out a new statewide test.

It similarly extends the mandate for statewide tests in science at least once in grade spans 3 — 5, 6 — 9, and 10 — 12.

That's the annual statewide test used to measure student achievement.

By all accounts, the exams are harder than the old statewide tests and are designed to measure critical thinking in addition to basic math and reading skills.

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

Setting aside the many problems and uncertainties of the mandates, a new study out this month focuses attention on how an evaluation system can be applied to grades not included in statewide testing programs.

The lawsuit argues that new questions in the revised Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress exam will require students to disclose personal information about themselves and their families, said the legislators» lawyer, John Price.

About 28 percent of Glenwood students passed statewide tests last school year, down from 37 percent in 2012.

Californians have begun the push to construct a new statewide testing system to replace the controversial program that was disbanded last September.

But because of the pause legislation, when Vandriessche's students take their first statewide tests as third graders, they'll be asked to pass a test written to match the state's old standards.

At the end of the year, statewide tests measure students» overall math level.

High - Stakes Testing With public demand and recent federal legislation calling for high standards and improved student performance, virtually every state in the nation has created and administered statewide tests that measure student progress over time.

On statewide tests last spring, the students at Rainier Prep, which is in South Seattle but within Highline School District boundaries, outperformed students at neighboring schools, in the district and statewide.

In Florida, math and English language arts are the only two subjects covered by statewide testing.

The California Senate today approved an Assembly bill that suspends statewide testing while students acclimate to the new computer - based Common Core curriculum.

Formal Recommendations on Revising Statewide Testing Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in California.

Students in Dougherty County School System performed extremely well during statewide testing earlier this year.

(Calif.) A change in law last summer that suspended most statewide testing next year threatens a federally - funded randomized controlled experiment in teaching algebra to at - risk eighth graders.

The recent news that Washington state legislators voted down a bill that would require statewide tests to be used — in some locally determined amount — as part of teacher and principal evaluations has three major implications:

Since she took office in 2008, Juneau has not only established new learning standards in English and math that have improved statewide test scores, but she has also fought a growing high school dropout trend through her Graduation Matters Montana initiative.

After a few poorly attended events, Project Reach hit its stride with evening gatherings that included performances by the school's step team and programs about statewide testing.

At least one Colorado public school district's computer system was hacked during new Common Core - aligned statewide testing.

Justice Eric Rosen noted that 32 percent of Kansas students did not perform to grade standards in the most recent statewide testing of reading and math.

The process for setting up an ACT Statewide Testing program typically follows the schedule below.