Sentences with phrase «taking the standardized test as»

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SURVEY PROVIDER AIMS TO STANDARDIZE TELEMEDICINE QUALITY OF CARE: As telemedicine adoption takes off among US providers, there's a growing need for a standardized test to determine the quality of care and patient satisfaction.

A wonderlic result doesn't take into account a players» level of test anxiety or other factors such as educational training for standardized tests in the past.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.

It reminds New York that part of the agreement for receiving what are known as Title I funds was that the majority of students take the standardized tests.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

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.

Atwood adds that the students took a nationally standardized test as their final exam.

Quintanilla, who works at the National Braille Press as its director of major gifts and planned giving, is looking for a tool that could help blind children read maps and graphs when taking standardized tests.

Children take as many as 20 standardized tests each year, and timed testing follows students through college entrance exams and into their careers.

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.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schoolAs a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schoolas traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

The fact is, no parent gets excited about his or her child taking a standardized test, just as we don't get excited about taking our kids for annual checkups at the doctor's office.

As they prepare for college, many 11th graders take the SAT or ACT and perhaps Advanced Placement exams as well, and they probably don't relish the idea of also having to take state standardized testAs they prepare for college, many 11th graders take the SAT or ACT and perhaps Advanced Placement exams as well, and they probably don't relish the idea of also having to take state standardized testas well, and they probably don't relish the idea of also having to take state standardized tests.

The three largest non-special needs school voucher programs (Milwaukee, Indiana, and Louisiana) all require participating schools to take the same standardized tests as the public schools.

Because Maine's standardized tests focus heavily on mathematics and language skills, Salm said, middle school students would start taking their core courses every day instead of every other day as they have done in the past.

The state ordered all students, including those in elementary school, to take standardized tests on computers as of this year.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Earlier this year, weeks before students were to take the state's standardized test, New York Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia traveled around touting the state's exams as a reliable way to measure students» progress on New York's learning standards, gave teachers a chance to vet the questions, and then tossed out time limits on the test.

What do you suggest teachers say to the question of time being an issue (such as it taking away from lessons that directly address those standardized tests).

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

He said that he came close to standardized tests once, until his mother went to the principal and told him that Matt would not be taking the test, which she described as stupid, a waste of time, and not useful.

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.

The vendors also fail to tell us that the national standardized tests will be driving all decision - making about special populations anyway and that all special populations will have to take the same test as non-special populations.

Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized tests (Iowa Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.

If passed, this will take what was the state's teacher evaluation system requirement that 20 % of an educator's evaluation be based on «locally selected measures of achievement,» to a system whereas teachers» value - added as based on growth on the state's (Common Core) standardized test scores will be set at 50 %.

I do not understand where Arne Duncan is coming up with these ideas, but as a friend pointed out if you asked him to take a neuro surgery exam now it would be the same as asking some of our students to take grade level standardized testing.

The rankings are based on student performance on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress standardized tests, known as the Smarter Balanced tests, taken in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th grades.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high - at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

As a result of this onslaught, a growing opt out of standardized testing movement is taking place across the country.

As a teacher with lots of experience giving standardized tests, I recently took one myself: an administrative placement test here in Colorado, following a two - year graduate program.

As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

However, I challenged them, and they defied all expectations by learning the same curriculum and taking the same standardized tests as their peers in general education classes.

As we noted in our report, Wales had also abolished standardized testing after it had taken over control of its educational system from the UK government in London — a direction that seemed to be consistent with practice in Finland.

Often, teachers are tempted to give students a quiz or test as a means of monitoring their understanding, and just as often, this «assessment» takes on a standardized format -LSB-...]

Often, teachers are tempted to give students a quiz or test as a means of monitoring their understanding, and just as often, this «assessment» takes on a standardized format like multiple choice or true / false.

He said the Democrats did not take other important steps, such as calling for the banning of all high - stakes uses of standardized tests and a reduction in government - mandated testing.

They can specifically address a particular «reform,» such as the absurd standardized testing frenzy or you can take a broader perspective on the need to promote positive developments in public education in the United States.

Although your students» number 2 pencils may dull during the course of the school year from marking all the standardized tests they must take, we hope these Web sites will sharpen your use of assessment as an instructional tool.

In the above article Chalkbeat focused on how some district practices, in Boulder specifically, discouraged high school students from taking state standardized tests: for the second year in a row, Boulder high schools continued instruction for ninth - grade students who opted - out of PARCC assessments, effectively penalizing students who took the state assessments as they had to catch up on the content later (1).

Results from the state standardized tests known as Smarter Balanced Assessments taken last spring showed that while many subgroups test scores improved from the previous year, results for LA Unified's English language learners were stagnant.

It shouldn't take an end of the year standardized test to distinguish a child as worthy to receive a diploma.

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 preparatioAs 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 preparatioas science, social studies, and the arts were pushed aside to make time for test preparation.

Contrary to popular misconception, students in charter schools take the same standardized tests as public schools and do not have to pay tuition.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

While states administer their own standardized tests for elementary students, fourth graders and eighth graders across the country take the same tests as a part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.