Sentences with phrase «test score gains appear»

In four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainment.

Not exact matches

Again, gains in test scores do not appear to capture very well the quality of schools or programs.

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.

Teachers also appear to generate higher test - score gains during the year they are being evaluated, though these estimates, while consistently positive, are smaller.

Provided the movement of teachers in and out of a grade has not changed the makeup of students enrolled in that grade, this finding supports the conclusion that measured value - added of teachers is an unbiased predictor of future test - score gains, as there appears to be no other explanation for the resulting improvement in test scores.

The impacts of school choice programs on test score gains and longer term outcomes are not really as out of sync as they may first appear.

On the other end of the scale are programs that appear to be failures when judged by short - term test - score gains, but that produce impressive long - term results for their participants.

First, high school scores might appear to be stagnant because not enough time has passed for the gains from earlier grades to show up in the test scores of students in later grades.

Though scores have risen on the state's TAAS test, the gains usually fail to appear even on other tests.

This is an important question because it appears that the Obama administration is essentially allowing any evaluation system to gain its blessing long as it has unspecified use of longitudinal student test score growth data as one of the main components.

Teachers made comments such as, «To gain the highest EVAAS score, drill and kill and memorization yields the best results, as does teaching to the test,» and «When I figured out how to teach to the test, the scores went up,» as well as, «EVAAS leaves room for me to teach to the test and appear successful.»

The test score gains which appear on the state test may not show up on other assessments whose content is not drilled, such as NAEP.