Sentences with phrase «test scores for»

The percentile rankings are based on test scores for each of the schools in this report.

The test scores there are low the average test scores for math is basic and the average test scores for reading is lower proficent.

Secondly, what are the minimum test scores for admission?

If the authors provided only test scores for children and adolescents with chronic illness, we used the norms from the test manual for comparison.

The overall advantage in test scores for children from two - parent families seen here is thus mainly a consequence of their greater family resources.

Excepting stronger indications of academic test scores for general health and mental well - being for the earlier 1958 birth cohort, and of socioeconomic deprivation for the general health of women, differential associations of the childhood measures with adult health are not apparent by gender, or between the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts.

Earlier this week, test scores for a Samsung handset with model number SM - G8750 showed up on the cross-platform processor benchmarking site.

According to a 2012 Stanford report, by high school, the test scores for low - income students average three to six grade levels below students from affluent backgrounds.

Want to know the best rated schools based on average test scores for basic academic skills?

~ The University of Tennessee has been exploring students» test scores for the past three years.

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Crash test scores for the 2017 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid are also some of the best out there, and the technology within the Sonata Hybrid has just been updated, including a 7 - inch high - definition touchscreen.

Cons: Below - average reliability, poor side - impact crash test scores for 1999 model, service and parts are expensive, plastic parts break easily, electrical problems.

The plug - in Volvo XC90 AWD PHEV, BMW X5 XDrive40e, and Porsche Cayenne S e-Hybrid each specify traction batteries just big enough to improve CO2 test scores for these otherwise powerful vehicles, but not enough to go more than 14 miles in EV mode.

Teachers in states that require using standardized test scores for teacher evaluations also voiced opposition.

As a deadline on a teacher evaluation deal neared, the groups anxiously supported Gov. Andrew Cuomo's work to add weight to test scores for assessing teachers.

This paper considers the issues raised in using standardized achievement test scores for purposes of examining the academic productivity of schools.

Not to recognize this reality leads us to using the 2014 SB achievement levels and disseminating more than three million student test scores for California students and schools that have no basis for valid interpretations....

However, an over-reliance on student standardized test scores for evaluating teacher and principal performance does not take into account improved student progress in light of challenging circumstances that confront students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The requirement to use the test scores for teacher evaluation in Connecticut has been waived for the past two years.

More typical is a college that requires subject test scores for some applicants (for example, the math subject test for engineering students), or a college that wants to see subject test scores from home - schooled applicants.

Independent charter schools, while funded by state taxpayers, operate outside most traditional public school rules in a way that supporters say make them more effective and perhaps better able to address long - standing challenges, such as raising test scores for low - income and minority students.

But because some didn't have a senior class last year, the state reported test scores for only 52.

Supporters say the new charter - granting entity is needed to spur innovation, especially in the area of improving test scores for minority and low - income students.

Repeated studies of voucher programs across the country show that vouchers result in worse test scores for students.

Michelle: It's really interesting, seeing what can happen when you use gaming as a vehicle instead of just as looking at gaming for an increase in test scores for a certain content level.

Going from country to country, it is clear that more competition — whether through public or private school choice measures — leads to higher test scores for public and private schools alike.

Researchers examined test scores for students in third grade through eighth grade in 11,000 school districts across the country.

And we should be able to compare test scores for students who have been at a school for several years against scores for newcomers.

Find out all the details of this exclusive research project showing the positive effects of the use of Reading Rods ® on literacy standardized test scores for Grades 1 and 2.

Many states do not publish test scores for student populations of ten or less.

The statewide average of TCAP test scores for the most recent 3 years.

The IES researchers compared test scores for two groups of students: students who, through a lottery process, were selected to receive vouchers, and students who applied for yet didn't receive them.

More than 90 % of New York fourth - grade ELL students who took proficiency tests were in schools that reported math test scores for ELL students.

And Rand Corp. researcher Laura Hamilton warned against relying on standardized test scores for 4 - year - olds.

Louisiana standardized test scores for third - through eighth - graders stayed essentially flat this year: 69 percent of those students scored at or above grade level compared to 68 percent last year, according to results released Wednesday.

Researchers compared state standardized reading test scores for each of two groups, using data from the year prior to the program compared with scores at the end of the program year.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

A week after Wisconsin Watchdog trumpeted WILL's voucher findings, National Review Online did the same in an article headlined, «New Evidence on School Choice Successes in Wisconsin: Higher test scores for students who attend schools their parents freely choose.»

That said, the highest - quality research studies find that charter schools tend to produce greater gains in math and reading test scores for traditionally disadvantaged students, compared to the gains these same students would achieve if they attended a traditional public school.

This was written by Vicki Phillips, Director of Education, College Ready, in which she (on behalf of the Foundation) called for a two - year moratorium on the use of test scores for educator evaluation.

The new program will designate 94 of the city's most troubled schools, including the Coalition School, as Renewal Schools based on a list of criteria including low four - year graduation rates for high schools and poor test scores for middle and elementary schools.

The positive impacts of having an experienced teacher extend beyond better test scores for students.

Losing ground on test scores for this school could have obvious consequences from a NCLB point of view, but in this instance it was also about pride, bragging rights and even resources from the Board of Education.

TalentLMS, for example, allows you to filter your student and course information in multiple ways (e.g. «show me only students from department X enrolled in class A», or «show me the test scores for this particular student»), and get aggregated statistics on them, which you can even export in Excel - compatible format.

Yet while the idea of using student test scores for teacher evaluations may be conceptually appealing, there is no universally accepted methodology for translating student growth into a measure of teacher performance.

Smarter Balanced test scores for all California student subgroups nudged upward this year, in tandem with average statewide gains in math and English language arts.

In California's plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, approved by Congress in 2015 to replace the federal No Child Left Behind Law, the state has chosen to use chronic absenteeism as another academic indicator along with test scores for grades K - 8.

Many states set a minimal pace of growth in student test scores for a school to be deemed proficient in the early years, followed by more aggressive growth standards later.

And that's a huge reason why test scores for that segment of the student population have remained stubbornly abysmal.