Sentences with phrase «students passed standardized tests»

Under the new system, state education officials will still look at the rate at which students passed standardized tests when issuing a school a letter grade rating.

In other words, teachers would tailor their course work towards ensuring students pass the standardized test, rather than providing a comprehensive education.

Not exact matches

More students in Glen Ellyn District 89 passed a standardized test this year than last year, data released by the district this month shows.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

The Assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would bar public schools from using students» standardized - test scores to evaluate teachers — a priority of the state's politically powerful teachers unions.

If passed, it would ban standardized testing on students in Pre-K through 2nd grade.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Stephens said that the ability to apply knowledge to real - world situations is missing in many students — an apparent consequence of relaxed standards in the American educational system and a focus in the classroom on passing standardized tests, he said.

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

Our students also had to pass standardized tests derived from those frameworks.

The relevance of including students with disabilities in assessment and accountability has been demonstrated by the increase in the number of students with disabilities in many states who took and passed the standardized tests and an increase in graduation rates in recent years.

«Another showed that students in Cambridge who passed more fitness tests performed better both on standardized testing as well as in their grades, holding all other variables constant.»

Students who flunked the reading and math standardized tests administered in March will have another chance to pass the tests in July after attending summer school.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

Scope: Compares the percentage of students passing or receiving high marks on standardized state tests in reading, math, writing, and science in various grade levels.

Our major challenges are the same as those that face many schools that serve similar populations across the country: Helping our students get to grade - level proficiency and to pass standardized tests.

He found a surprisingly large correlation between how well teachers did on this relatively easy test (the pass rate was 97 percent) and their students» achievement on a standardized test.

Their report, Update: Ending Social Promotion, states that the number of students who pass the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), the standardized test the city's schools use, has increaTest of Basic Skills (ITBS), the standardized test the city's schools use, has increatest the city's schools use, has increased.

The state's strict graduation criteria require most students to maintain a 2.0 GPA, pass certain standardized tests and obtain 24 credits to graduate.

• Hybrid format students performed slightly better, achieving pass rates 3 percentage points higher, standardized - test scores about 1 percentage point higher, and final - exam scores 2 percentage points higher.

Less than half of Maryland elementary and middle school students passed the state's tough new standardized tests, a result school officials attribute to a major revision of teaching and testing standards.

One way of enforcing standards of excellence is through standardized testing, linked to high stakes - such as holding students back until they pass the tests or delaying their graduation.

While observers will judge Bloomberg and Klein's tenure using standardized test scores — and even they agree those scores are important measures — Klein has made no secret of the fact that he wishes his team's work to be marked in the end by significant upticks in both the graduation rate and the numbers of students who pass basic tests in order to qualify for a Regents diploma.

But when New York State began requiring students to pass the standardized Regents tests in order to graduate from high school, Beacon was forced to reduce the number of projects and cut the time for assessing them.

I have found that after standardized testing has passed, students become more chatty and restless.

Mayor Greg Ballard announced Tuesday he plans to revoke the school's charter because so few of its students passed statewide standardized tests this spring.

A 2013 study of nearly 12,000 Nebraska students also found that aerobically fit students were more likely to pass the state's standardized math and reading tests, regardless of their weight or socioeconomic status.

Some states made the standardized tests so easy or set passing scores so low that virtually all students were rated proficient even as they scored much lower on federal exams and showed up for college requiring remedial help.

In states that use standardized testing as a portion of the teacher assessment process, covering material is also used by teachers as an attempt to ensure their students remember the content for the short - term in order to merely pass the test.

There is also a flexibility rule that allows students with a minimum 2.75 to still be certified if they achieve a score on the required standardized Praxis test that is at least 10 percent higher than the minimum passing score.

Student scores on Indiana's ISTEP standardized exams were little changed from last year after pass rates tumbled two years ago with an overhaul of the test.

The sad reality is most people seem to think gifted students will be «fine» since they are usually capable of passing minimum - competency standardized tests (which is what school is all about, right?).

Many Texas school officials have been advocating to push back standardized testing as they feel that students will not be able to successfully pass the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

Although standardized tests are often culturally biased, all students need to achieve success and pass those tests if they are to be competitive in society.

In 2009, Florida began releasing rankings of education schools based on what percentage of a teacher's students passed the state standardized tests.

In Oklahoma, for example, high school students must pass four standardized tests in order to graduate, regardless of their GPA.

VCS students in grades 3 to 11 who regularly engaged with their teachers and the curriculum achieved an 80 % and higher pass rate on their state standardized tests.

For every new student who passed the math and reading test, the district removed one student from standardized testing.

Similarly, the development of 21st century skills is measured by percentage of students passing 3 out of 5 core subjects, which, again is only a meaningful goal if we know that core subject classes are rigorous, providing grade level instruction, and leading to high levels of performance on state standardized tests.

During the school year prior to Garrison's arrival, just 17 percent of Camden students passed their state standardized tests in language arts.

Often schools are reluctant to participate in experimental research studies for fear that the study will detract students from learning necessary content needed to pass standardized tests.

Because too few of those disadvantaged students have passed standardized tests for three consecutive years (PDF), George Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind reform requires that the principal and half the teachers be replaced.

The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of home - educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).

The law was passed in December 2015 to replace the flawed NCLB, which went into effect in 2002 and dictated the use of English language arts and math standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student achievement.

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

We believe that standardized tests provide part of the picture in determining student achievements, but students must have the time to experiment, make mistakes, and develop their own deep understanding, even if this means it takes them longer to pass a test.

By law, states are supposed to gradually increase the percentage of students who pass standardized reading and math tests until 100 % of them do by 2014.