Sentences with phrase «test score data remains»

* 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.

Not exact matches

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

But our work with making decisions about learners must remain far more humane then making decisions about learners based on a set of cold, calculated scores (and it doesn't matter if those data come from the grades in our gradebooks or external test scores).

The Smarter Balanced test is aligned with the new Common Core standards and its scores are not comparable to the old API scores, officials have stressed, but Cynthia Lim, LA Unified's executive director of the office of Data and Accountability, conceded that the gaps remain regardless of what test is being administered.

While test scores remained painfully low, they rose slightly during the first year of the grant, so that by spring, 32 percent of children in Grades 3 to 8 passed state tests in language arts, up from 24 percent the year before, state data show.