Sentences with phrase «take standardized tests more»

Because high school students take standardized tests more frequently than elementary students do, Matt found it easier to look at individual data and monitor whether students were being challenged appropriately or needed to move to higher - level classes midsemester.

Not exact matches

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

More character traits were revealed in a standardized test Kent took in the fourth grade.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

In October, for example, after more than 80 % of the parents voted to have their kids not take the exams, Castle Bridge Elementary School canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests.

School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized tests.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

As more and more students refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests, school districts are dealing with what to do with the protesters during testing time.

In what became known as the «excellence movement,» states like Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia took steps to raise and refine academic standards and introduce more reliable standardized testing.

Overall, she and Weinstein both say that more research is needed to draw specific conclusions about the impact of digital media — and standardized testing — on creativity and the willingness by students to take risks and break away from the standard mold.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

She believed that by taking more advanced courses, students could achieve higher scores on standardized tests.

It encourages colleges to revise their applications to ask students about two or three extracurricular activities, rather to encourage them to submit long lists of sports and clubs they participate in and to consider make standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice.

Local education decisions traditionally have been the provenance of states and local districts, but Bush led the way for more federal involvement — requiring students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to take standardized tests for school «accountability» purposes.

Among the report's recommendations for reducing undue pressure on high - school students are making standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice, raising awareness of overloading on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and prioritizing quality, not quantity, of extracurricular activities.

These tests, which are not required by the federal government, make up nearly 80 % of the more than 200 hours of standardized tests students have to take over their 12 years of school, DeMaria told the state school board.

[B] y taking the standardized testing seriously in that final year, the schools simply may have produced a truer measure of student's actual (better) performance all along, not necessarily a signal that they actually learned a lot more in the one year under the new accountability regime....

In addition to probably not capturing everything that we want out of schools, we should also take into account that it appears that more and more families are opting into private schooling to get away from schools that they think are obsessed with standardized testing.

And a requirement that choice schools take any one of a long list of standardized tests is much more desirable than requiring the state test.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

However, as more of the time in schools is focused on preparing for and taking standardized tests, these more powerful uses of technology are in some places being neglected.

California also clashed with federal officials last year when it discontinued the standardized tests in math and English language arts students have been taking for more than a decade.

But then, despite facing a budget shortfall and laying off dozens of teachers, School Superintendent Paul «education reformer extraordinaire» Vallas, announced that he was instituting yet another full round of standardized tests in June because he believes that more testing is the only way to prevent teachers from allowing a «lull» in learning to take place in their classrooms.

The average U.S. student will take 112 required standardized tests between the ages of preschool and 12th grade, with eighth graders having the most testing required of them in a single year with more than 25 hours of testing.

Take a peek below to read a little more about this reading skill and how you can find it in those long reading passages on standardized tests.

For more information: Jesse Hagopian, Teacher Garfield HS, 206-962-1685, [email protected] SEATTLE — In perhaps the first instance anywhere in the nation, teachers at Seattle's Garfield High School will announce this afternoon their refusal to administer a standardized test that students in other high schools across the district are scheduled to take in the first part of January.

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama received high praise from parents and teachers for acknowledging that testing is taking too much time away from teaching, learning and fostering creativity in schools, and recommending that standardized tests take no more than 2 percent of total school instructional time.

Governor Dan Malloy used that quote to reiterate why the state should terminate tenure, shift to a teacher evaluation system that relies more heavily on standardized test scores and create something called the «Commissioner's Network» in which the state would take over 25 schools, fire the teachers, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to a third - party.

Students would still take annual standardized tests, but states would have much more control in how the results are used to scrutinize schools under a bipartisan plan to update the No Child Left Behind education law announced Tuesday by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

As teachers spent more time preparing students to take standardized tests, the curriculum was narrowed: Such subjects as science, social studies, and the arts were pushed aside to make time for test preparation.

Please visit the standardized testing page of the CPA website for more information about which students will take which tests, and review the school calendar to see when each class will be testing.

Tennessee's new standardized test, known as TNReady, is considered a substantially more difficult assessment, though many students still haven't taken it after glitches during the first year.

Standardized testing takes resources away from public schools by stealing time instead of fostering a more multifaceted way of teaching and assessing students.

Students need to spend more time learning and less time taking these unnecessary standardized tests.

The coming assessments bring with them a host of questions, some involving the logistics of the tests themselves and others involving how schools can prepare students for what may be considerably more rigorous standardized tests than those they've taken in the past.

«People are happy about that because it means students won't have to take more standardized tests, and it opens doors for students who thought they'd never be college bound because they wouldn't be able to pass the SAT.

By Rachel Kelly, CEI Intern While the education system in the United States has created more competitive standardized tests and strict guidelines to ensure that American students keep up with the rest of the world, Finland is taking the opposite approach.

The new law was part of Malloy's larger «education reform» initiative that has been forcing Connecticut public school students and their teachers to devote more and more time preparing for and taking the «Common Core aligned» standardized tests.

Superintendent Jim Tager is recommending the school be given its 90 - day closure notice, citing poor accountability and record - keeping and the shifting of more than a dozen struggling students to a private school on the same property, a move that Tager says is meant to keep them from taking standardized tests and lowering the school's grade from the state.

Young said her students showed more growth on the standardized test scores taken last spring than surrounding schools.

The report also recommends that colleges work to relieve the pressure associated with standardized testing, such as by «discouraging students from taking an admissions test more than twice.»

It took more than five months and the intervention of a mediator to craft an evaluation that factors in standardized test scores, as well as Academic Growth Over Time, a controversial mathematical formula used to measure student progress.

- Reduced achievement gap - Increased course passing rate - Increased graduation rates - Higher standardized test scores in reading and math - More AP and IB tests taken - Fewer suspensions - Lower absenteeism