Sentences with phrase «student performance on standardized tests»

Today, educational goals and «success» have become defined by student performance on standardized tests, in addition to measures like student attendance and graduation rates.

Measuring student growth has been made somewhat easier by recent advances in the tracking of student performance on standardized tests over time.

According to the terms of the state deal, 40 percent of a teacher's annual review will be based on student performance on standardized test scores.

At the same time, nearly 40 states have adopted laws linking teacher evaluations to student performance on standardized tests over the past four years.

The poll also had important messages for teachers as voters said student performance on standardized tests should play a sizable role in evaluating a teacher's effectiveness.

The evaluation system creates «report cards» for schools based on a number of factors, including student performance on standardized tests, attendance rates and dropout rates.

These approaches are only beginning to be validated against student performance on standardized tests.

«Teacher effectiveness» is a commonly used term that refers to how much student performance on standardized tests is determined by the teacher.

While one indicator of a school's progress is performance scores, research shows that teacher quality is the dominant factor driving student performance on standardized tests.

A number of states and districts across the country already tie student performance on standardized tests to teacher evaluations; others have plans to do so.

Other studies of charter schools from across the country, however, find either no gains or mixed outcomes in terms of student performance on standardized tests.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

He found significant variability in LAUSD teacher quality, as demonstrated by student performance on standardized tests in reading and math, and he concluded that differences between «high - performing» and «low - performing» teachers accounted for differences in student performance.

And test - driven strategies are working just fine, which is why 23 states and the District of Columbia now use student performance on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

The article presents a profile of the efforts by Guy Sconzo, the superintendent of Texas» Humble Independent School District (HISD), to increase student performance on standardized tests by dividing the large student population into small learning communities (SLCs) to better provide personalized learning opportunities.

he All Saints Catholic School relies on Renaissance Star 360 ® for screening, progress monitoring, and predicting student performance on standardized tests.

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.

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

This research does not show that private or charter schools are always more effective than district schools in raising student performance on standardized tests — the indicator that is often put forth as a measure of a school's success.

Labor economists used longitudinal models that had been developed to determine the impact of social programs on worker income to analyze student performance on standardized tests.

Studies by Ronald Ferguson and Helen Ladd found positive relationships between aggregate teacher scores on the ACT, literacy examinations, or states» licensure examinations and aggregate student performance on standardized tests.

KIPP schools relentlessly focus on high student performance on standardized tests and other objective measures.

Furthermore, student growth is often code for student performance on standardized tests, and tying teacher pay to student test scores is perilous.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

But beyond the hubbub around the A-F school grading system's formula, which many agree overemphasizes student performance on standardized tests, there are larger questions about what the A-F school grading system will do for public schools in the long term.

For example, Van Vooren and Bess (2013) found a positive correlation between the use of Twitter and eighth - grade student performance on standardized tests.

A 2010 study called Project RED (which was, admittedly, sponsored by technology companies Intel, Apple, Qwest Communications and eChalk) found that such a curriculum could reduce both dropout rates and disciplinary actions, and could help improve student performance on standardized tests.

Much has been said about the ineffectiveness of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping, decade - old federal education law that uses student performance on standardized tests as the barometer for academic achievement.

The Portland, Oregon, teachers» union's new contract «bars the use of student performance on standardized tests as a basis for involuntary transfers, layoffs, placement on the salary schedule, and / or disciplinary language.»

Report cards would rate programs by their outcomes, such as graduates» impacts on student performance on standardized tests, rather than program characteristics like curriculum and faculty credentials.

Without being held accountable to the incessant pressure of increasing student performance on a standardized test (see Hew & Brush, 2007; Walker & Shepard, 2011; Zhao, 2007), Mike found technology use to be «definitely less prescriptive, especially for us.»

The All Saints Catholic School relies on Renaissance Star 360 ® for screening, progress monitoring, and predicting student performance on standardized tests.

Only 10 percent of Californians said student performance on standardized tests should not be used to evaluate teachers, and 8 percent said teachers should be evaluated mostly on test results, with some assessment of their classroom performance and peer evaluations.

It also is a win for the district's superintendent, John Deasy, who has been pushing the teachers» union to accept a new evaluation system that includes student performance on standardized tests.

Generally speaking, AYP is determined by student performance on standardized tests.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

Student performance on standardized tests could soon account for up to half of a teacher's evaluation in New York State.

Moreover, graduation rates in the district are strikingly low, as is student performance on standardized tests.

Teachers didn't take kindly to their pay depending on both de-emphasizing direct instruction and improving student performance on standardized tests, and principals weren't particularly eager to evaluate teachers based on a pedagogical approach that both teacher and principal often felt coerced into adopting.

Just as Americans support tying teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests, so too do they want students» eligibility to be promoted from one grade to the next and to graduate from high school to depend on demonstrated success on tests.

Without assessing these programs per se, Johnson explains, the book examines how these systems are set up, including whether they use student performance on standardized tests, professional evaluations, a hybrid model, and whether they used individual or group assessments.

The Obama administration believes strongly that teachers should be evaluated by their student performance on standardized tests.

In the United States, schools are evaluated largely by student performance on standardized tests that are scored by computers.

By next year, teacher pay in the state will also be tied to student performance on standardized tests, even as the FCAT is replaced by a new yet - to - be-named and fully developed statewide assessment.

Student performance on standardized tests was one of the least important pieces of information parents used to pick a school; only 10.2 percent of the parents who completed the survey listed higher standardized test scores as one of their top five reasons why they chose a particular private school for their children.