Sentences with phrase «students being tested»

The first is variation due to differences in the groups of students being tested each year.

Moreover, many of the «performance measures» that get reported do not actually measure genuine outcomes, but instead simply relate the percentage of disabled students being tested each year, the percent being mainstreamed, and other workload measures.

If a student is tested in a drug testing program and the results of the test are positive, all records of the test must be confidential.

Students were tested on the new curriculum before educators were familiarized with it.

I believe students are tested too often, creating undue anxiety and stressing the entire system.

They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.

Lessons are presented in a particular order, and students are tested after they learn.

Each student was tested sitting at a table with hands oriented either palms up or palms down.

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

At the moment Dr Khan and his team of three PhD students are testing the system for generating electricity in warmer climates.

Students were tested on the beach mouse coat color scenario as well as on evolutionary principles in general.

But the real value of interleaving became apparent when the students were tested a full month after the review session.

In a collaboration with ranchers and local and state land management organizations called the Marin Carbon Project, she and her students are testing the effects of compost created from city yard waste (such as leaves, branches, and lawn trimmings) and agricultural waste (including manure and cornstalks) on carbon storage.

How will my students be tested?

In Massachusetts and Virginia, where students are tested in key grades and will soon need to pass exit exams to graduate from high school, Cassandras predicted all kinds of pernicious results.

Students are tested on the following: - Connectivity Encryption Hardware Topologies IP Addresses Data Packets World wide web vs Internet Protocols Diagrams

This can be ascertained because students were tested in all four subjects, although only two of their teachers were surveyed.

Nearly two thirds of the public favor the federal government's requirement that all students be tested in math and reading each year in 3rd through 8th grade and at least once in high school, and only 24 % oppose the policy.

As a consequence, some abstracts meticulously outline how many students were tested, what research methods were used, and what results were found, while others simply introduce readers to the studies.

Since third and fifth grades in my school were the two «promotion» grades (the grades when students are tested and when most promotion and retention decisions are made), the standards on the fourth - grade report card were the standards associated with fifth grade, not fourth grade.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

Each year a strong majority of the public has expressed support for federal efforts to hold schools accountable by requiring that students be tested in reading and math.

In 2011, 2012 and 2013, we asked whether the federal government should require that students be tested annually in reading and math.

Students are tested, too, but as a warm - up leading to the goal of creating a video game.

We strongly agree with the law's requirement that 95 percent of students be tested.

Specifically, I examine whether the effects on age - 11 test scores can be detected when the students are tested again at age 14, three years after the students have left the primary school.

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

The students are tested on their ability to «do» the subject in context, to transfer their learning effectively.

Students are tested with their knowledge of Maths (Level 5), Science, and Business.

In Dayton, 1,440 students were tested before the lottery; 803 of them were attending public schools at the time.

Testing and Accountability Question: Some have proposed that the federal government continue to require that all students be tested in math and reading each year in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

Above all, the law's requirement that students be tested annually in reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school has provided parents, teachers, and other citizens with detailed information about students» performance in these foundational subjects — and therefore the extent to which they have mastered skills that are prerequisites for other educational goals.

In Washington, D.C., 2,023 students were tested before the lottery; 1,582 of them were attending a public school.

Third grade is the first time students are tested statewide, and fifth grade is generally the end of elementary school, so these two grades represents the bookends of ages in which we observe performance statewide in elementary school.

Students are tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher - driven variation in reading achievement than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.

In fact, 62 % of parents in the Education Next - PEPG survey favor continuing to require that students be tested in math and reading each year in grades three through eight; only 14 % of parents oppose testing.

Almost without exception, the primary yardstick that states use when they want to judge schools and students is a test.

Students are tested more.

All students are tested from year two upwards, with maths, English and non-verbal reasoning tests to the fore.

Students are tested at the start of Year 7, and then again at the end of Year 7, so that teachers are able to monitor progress.

Some middle school students were tested in Algebra I.

The proposal would retain the annual testing requirement that students be tested every year in grades three through eight and again in high school.

Now say the same group of students is tested again in 8th grade, where the average score of black students turns out to be 90, versus an average of 100 among white students.

It is perhaps surprising, then, that in July a bipartisan Senate supermajority of 81 — 17 passed a revision of NCLB that keeps the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in grades 3 to 8 and again in high school.

Each student was tested in two core subject areas — English Language Arts (ELA) and Math.

Controversy over state accountability tests is likely an important influence on the widespread perception that U.S. students are tested too much.

State law requires each student be tested, department officials say.

I was only able to teach 2/3 of the curriculum before my students were tested.

Acknowledging the «unfairness» of the evaluations, Walker said that a system should measure the individual effectiveness of each teacher, but noted that the «FCAT VAM has been applied to teachers whose students are tested in a subject that teacher does not teach and to teachers who are measured on students they have never taught....