Sentences with phrase «student performance on state assessments»

An added benefit of screening is that such information can be used to predict student performance on state assessments.

Concerns about this component: TEA's proposed rules for T - TESS include a requirement that, beginning in the 2017 - 18 school year, each teacher appraisal shall include the academic growth of the teacher's students at the individual teacher level as measured by one or more of four options chosen by the local school district, including student performance on state assessments.

Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., in a letter Monday to district superintendents statewide, said the state «neither requires nor encourages districts to make promotion or placement decisions using student performance on state assessments in grades 3 - 8.»

Southold School District Superintendent David Gamberg is criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to ratchet up the importance of student performance on state assessments when it comes to teacher evaluations.

University of California scholar Bruce Fuller and colleagues, for example, document a growing disparity between student performance on state assessments and NAEP since the introduction of NCLB and conclude that «it is important to focus on the historical patterns informed by the NAEP.»

We were the first to offer reports that could forecast student performance on state assessments, and we are proud to be the first to provide this new forecast report, as well,» said Saki Dodelson, Founder and CEO of Achieve3000.

Under ESSA2, states have to set goals for improving student performance on state assessments and graduation rates for all students and for each student group.

Taylor)-- TCTA successfully opposed an objectionable teacher quality indicator (allowing for up to 25 percent of indicator to be based on student performance on state assessments) in this accountability legislation.

States will now have the responsibility of designing an accountability framework incorporating and giving the most weight to academic factors, including student performance on state assessments and high school graduation rates, in addition to state - chosen indicators of school quality or student success, which can include measures of educator engagement and school climate / safety.

Each of these proposed rule revisions reflects conditions imposed by Texas's NCLB waiver — that student growth be measured at the individual teacher level, that student performance on state assessments must be included as a measure of student growth, that the student growth component must be weighted 20 percent in a teacher's evaluation, and that TEA ensure that local school districts using locally - developed appraisal systems use student growth at the individual teacher level.

Student performance on state assessments IS important, but so are measures of student growth, gains in closing achievement gaps, and challenging opportunities like dual credit, technical certifications and Advanced Placement — programs that give students an early advantage in college and in their careers.

Los Angeles — State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck reacted to the release by the California Department of Education of the 2016 - 17 student performance on state assessments.