Sentences with phrase «sum of their test scores»

De Blasio welcomed the gains but said pointedly that «a school is not the sum of its test scores.»

I've always believed my own children — and the students I've taught — are more than the sum of their test scores.

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The K - D time score is the sum of the 3 test card time scores.

The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare a score measuring the adherence of the control and intervention groups to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm.Sixty - five healthcare professionals were recruited and randomized to the control or intervention group.

In sum, Krueger and Zhu take three methodological steps to generate results that are not statistically significant: 1) changing the definition of the group to be studied, 2) adding students without baseline test scores, and 3) ignoring the available information on baseline test scores, even though this yields less precise results.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

To sum up, our evidence confirms that the students of high - VA teachers benefit not just by scoring higher on math and reading tests at the end of the school year, but also through improved outcomes later in life.

The large sums of money used to try and raise test scores only pushes kids away from school and causes stagnation of our educational system.

Across the board, all of us, from real estate agents to the edu - press, have bought into the zero - sum game of comparing kids, schools, and neighborhoods by test scores.

«In our view, average test scores are more appropriately thought of as measures of opportunity — they reflect the sum total of educational opportunities that children have had,» wrote Reardon in a follow - up email.

And although tests are hardly the sum of education, reading scores for 17 - year - olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (the «Nation's Report Card») have basically not budged since the early 1970s.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

Primary outcomes were the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS) 25,26 for PTSD symptoms and the Symptom Checklist Depression Scale (SCL - 20) for depressive symptoms.27 The PDS (17 items) assesses severity of PTSD symptoms over the prior 4 weeks with high internal consistency and test - retest reliability26; scores are summed and range from 0 to 51; scores of 10 or less are mild; 11 to 20, moderate; 21 to 35, moderate to severe; and at least 36, severe.

Each test was made generation - fair for G2 by replacing outdated words such as «muslin» with words of comparable difficulty.5 For each generation, scores from these tests were standardized to a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, summed to create a total score representing overall cognitive ability at 8 years, then re-standardized.