Sentences with phrase «students about testing»

Talking To Students About Testing is from The Growth Mindset Blog.

However, I remain cautious about what we tell our students about testing and how we use the results.

Not exact matches

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

Farrell notes that colleges and universities tout the successes of their incoming students — test scores, academic achievement, acceptance rates, and the like — but rarely spend the same amount of energy sharing data about job placement and success rates of graduates.

But after everything they've been through, Stoneman Douglas students say waiving the testing requirement would give them one less thing to worry about.

The testing requirements affect roughly 1,500 students at the school, about half of the student body.

To test temptation, half of the students read a passage about God and half read a passage unrelated to God.

Only about one black student in seven scores above the 50th percentile on standardized college admissions tests.

I tell my students when they start freaking out about a test: relax!

Hi Stacy, I think I read on your site some weeks back about the CLEP test for students entering college.

Jay Mathews, education writer for The Washington Post, wrote a recent column about teachers who refused to give students back their graded tests.

Some of these tests were the standardized tests that the states or districts re-use each year, and the teachers were worried about kids cheating — sharing questions and answers with next year's students.

The right high school for your student goes well beyond statistics available about standardized testing results and the number of advanced or honors level courses offered.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

When you present the facts about school breakfast, and its associated benefits — increased test scores, fewer behavioral problems, improved focus in the classroom — you give stakeholders the opportunity to understand the measurable results that come from feeding students a morning meal.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

For the Waldorf student, music, dance, and theater, writing, literature, legends and myths are not simply subjects to be read about, ingested and tested.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

She conducts taste - testing sessions in classrooms to learn what students think about potential menu options.

Like schoolteachers that don't care about their individual students, but are teaching to the tests.

Addressing the crowd at Francisco, Ms Rowe talked enthusiastically about Recipes for Healthy Kids, a USDA competition for students working with adults to design and test recipes for scratch cooking using whole grains, beans, or dark green and orange vegetables.

Long Island is the region with the highest number of test refusals, with about 70,000 students opting out.

About 88 percent of eligible students in grades three through six took this year's state tests.

At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

«We're talking about doing something in the budget so the testing that take place in April will be less traumatic for the students,» Silver said.

«Teachers must be free to protect their students and speak out when they have concerns about state tests.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

The additional exam would address concerns about teachers being rated based on a student's work on one day or over one test - administration period, the administration official said.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tAbout one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tabout 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

Numbers for 2017 test attendance will not be released until the summer, but Newsday already is reporting that about half of Long Island students boycotted the English exams given in late March.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

New leaders of the state Board of Regents are scheduled to be elected Monday, then hold a news conference where they likely will face questions about their future plans for Common Core academic standards, student testing and teacher evaluations.

The committee also hear about teachers» «exasperation over the lack of time and resources given to professional development training in order to adequately prepare lesson plans before teaching and testing their students,» according to a press release issued by his office Thursday.

Parent groups want Cuomo and state lawmakers to repeal the tough teacher - evaluation law passed last spring, which bases up to about half of teachers ratings on student test results.

Teachers are stoking parental fears about raising the stakes of student tests even as teachers have fears of their own about being yoked to student exam performance.

The city school board learned there is no consistency about what to do when a student refuses to take the tests.

Success students, or scholars as they are known in the network's parlance, perform remarkably well on standardized tests, leading to many accolades and repeated questions about Moskowitz's «secret sauce.»

She urged Questar to answer more questions about what happened so parents and students feel safe taking the computer - based tests.

The problems with the computerized tests come as about 20 percent of students in New York have opted out of the exams each year in protest to new learning standards.

The law includes an indefinite prohibition on test scores being used «solely or primarily» in decisions about student promotion and placement, and strikes the grades from students» permanent records.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

The school expects to test about 100 students, staff and other people who have been in close contact with the individual, according to Dr. Indu Gupta, Onondaga County's health commissioner.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

About 38,000 teachers, or 20 percent, had one - fifth of their evaluations based on their students» scores in the fourth - through eighth - grade English and math tests.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he would consider «legislative changes» to address parents» concerns about the rigorous Common Core standards, on which New York schools started testing some students last April.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

The speech typically includes an argument that Success values progressive educational values over test scores, a joke about what might happen if Success students were allowed to voluntarily attend school, and a swipe at the de Blasio administration.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Judy Patrick of the Daily Gazette about students who decided to opt - out of the state common core tests yesterday and a woman who's bringing attention to potholes on the streets of Schenectady in a unique way.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.