Sentences with phrase «test score data»

Every grant recipient to date has said they would use test score data as one factor in evaluating educators.

A new analysis of reading and math test score data from across the country confirms just how much socioeconomic conditions matter.

Evaluation systems often attempt to offset the focus on test score data by incorporating other measures of teacher effectiveness, including observations, peer review, and other teacher materials.

For individual teachers, the agreement proposes to use raw state standardized test score data.

The new system will rate teachers by looking at student test score data, as well as the scores teachers receive from observations conducted by administrators.

Teams might ask, How does your district use test score data?

Test score data from a diverse pool of schools is shared in context with peer like schools.

Design and provide ongoing, sustained professional development for teachers based on test score data.

A new teacher evaluation system in Louisiana requires frequent classroom observations and the use of test score data in teacher ratings.

His preferred analogy was to medicine: to prohibit the use of student test score data in such decisions, Bloomberg explained, is as insane and inane as «saying to hospitals, «You can evaluate heart surgeons on any criteria you want — just not patient survival rates!»

Schneider and his colleagues believe that consumer choice in schooling can have positive effects on education quality, and they support their belief with test score data from New York City.

Drew Furedi, an L.A. Unified official overseeing the district's evaluation system, said he could not comment on the proposals because he hadn't seen them yet, but he welcomed their support for multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including test score data.

Also Thursday, the Los Angeles Board of Education formally directed its superintendent, for the first time, to include student test score data as part of teachers» evaluations.

Within the last year, three influential organizations — reflecting researchers, practitioners, and philanthropic sectors — have called for a moratorium on the current use of student test score data for educator evaluations, including the use of value - added models (VAMs).

On Oct. 24, 2013, Julia Ryan wrote in The Atlantic that American Education isn't Mediocre — It's Deeply Unequal, after digesting new test score data that rank U.S. states among other nations.

The latest test score data shows that school choice is working in Wisconsin, and it is a clear call to action to expand the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program and number of independent charter schools.

As part of the innovateNJ community of school districts that shares best practices, Springfield Public Schools spent last year analyzing test score data over a four - year period to see which students struggled and what types of questions they had trouble with, said Sharon Nagy - Johnson, director of instructional technology.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

There is one caution to keep in mind when using the SchoolMatters state test score data.

Value - added assessment, a statistical process for looking at test score data, is one technique that researchers have been developing to identify effective and ineffective teachers and schools.

Presented in a simplistic, comparative way, says Schneider, test score data like these are too often consumed without skepticism by readers.

But it also possible that choice is particularly effective in high school (as compared to elementary school, where test score data typically comes from).

The law requires that students who receive vouchers take the state tests, known as LEAP and iLEAP, yet so far few test score data are available.

Based on test score data covering seven years, The Times analyzed the effects of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers on their students» learning.

* CLARIFICATION: As originally posted, the story did not clearly point out that test score data remains a part of the state's letter grading system.

Kevin Gallick, EdD Urban Education Leadership»13 and principal at CPS George Washington High School, describes strategies in this video for sharing standardized test score data directly with students to help them understand the connections between GPA, test scores and college access:

Bill Roberts writes in The Idaho Statesman on September 13, 2013 that teachers throughout the state of Idaho are unable to make good use of a much heralded Schoolnet data system because test score data arrive months too late and because some of the data is riddled with errors.

It is not highly defensible to use group achievement and intelligence test score data as the final arbiters for selection by merely raising the cutoff, let's say to 98 %.

But many researchers argue that value - added models don't need to control for demographic factors like poverty, race, English - learner or special - education status at the individual student level, as long as enough test score data (at least three years) are included in the formula.

Louisiana has used student test score data since 2006 to determine which teacher training programs are most effective.

First, U.S. high - stakes accountability systems, which often draw on narrow metrics and unstable test score data, push administrators to control everything in their school buildings — including teachers.

Mark Anderson, assistant professor in the Montana State University Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and Mary Beth Walker, professor and dean with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, examined elementary school test score data on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) from 2001 - 2010 across the state's rural districts, fifteen of which operated on a four - day week.

The city's Department of Education constantly mines test score data for patterns to show where improvement is happening and where it is needed.

Plank said that a group of districts including Los Angeles and San Francisco with their own tracking systems have shared student - level test score data with researchers.

Value - added methodology is an alternative use of annual test score data to assess teacher quality.

Thankfully, on Wednesday the federal government dumped a mass of new NAEP test score data from the nation's largest cities, including DC.

CCSA's criteria are straightforward, clear, and holistic; leveraging both public test score data along with a multiple measure review aligned to California's 8 state priorities.

The Education Nation Scorecard for Schools Web site offers some helpful tools that allow you to easily analyze school and district test score data.

Opposition from the unions to performance pay plans, ending tenure and using student test score data in teacher evaluations, also fall on deaf ears.

After two years of progress, Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's effort to narrow the vast achievement gap separating white and African American students in D.C. public schools has stalled, an analysis of 2010 test score data shows.

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

Nick Melvoin, who was elected to the school board this spring and serves as its vice president, said in an interview he wants the state test score data to be part of the district's unified enrollment system, «so that it's a really meaningful tool for parents.»

Then I can define teacher and school factors based on test score data and measure the predictive effect of the teacher factor on college attendance.

At issue is a 2006 law that bars the state from using student test score data for measuring teacher performance.