Sentences with phrase «students under standard conditions»

Standardized testing is any testing which is given to large numbers of students under standard conditions and with standardized procedures.

Not exact matches

If, under the best of conditions, schools are still incapable of adding anything but a few fractions of a standard deviation to the academic achievement of students or to their lifetime earning trajectories, might it not make sense to freeze school spending and explore supplementary policy instruments?

Students who took the SAT once under standard conditions and then requested an accommodation scored 45 and 38 points higher in verbal and math, respectively, when they retook the test with extended time.

Yet the panel majority concluded, «This finding is consistent with the argument that students with disabilities need more time to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities than the nondisabled students, and suggests that the scores of these students taken under the condition of extended time are more representative of their true performance than are the scores they would obtain from a standard administration.»

The chief issue confronting the panel was whether the scores of students taking the test under standard conditions and with accommodations are «comparable» — in other words, whether they have the same weight and meaning and predict freshman GPAs with the same degree of accuracy.

In other words, the standards require test administrators to note when a test has been taken under modified conditions unless there is «credible evidence» that the scores of students who took the test under standard and modified conditions are comparable — that is, that the scores carry the same meaning and weight.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Direct writing assessment requires students to write in response to an assigned topic under timed conditions; papers are scored using a standard rubric.

The study analyzes student outcomes associated with specific aspects of curriculum and instruction and identified policy conditions - especially regarding standards - based reform - under which effective classroom practices were likely to flourish.

Participating students with disabilities were tested under standard conditions or with accommodations permitted by NAEP.