Sentences with phrase «test scores from»

I challenge Kohn to show me the data that backs up his wild generalization that test scores from «very talented, hardworking students» are often lower than those of «some superb test takers [who] tend to think superficially.»

After controlling for poverty and test scores from previous years, the Responsive Classroom (RC) approach contributed to the gains in both reading and math, with a greater difference between the intervention and control schools seen in math.

They used a differences - in - differences approach that exploits the gradual implementation across the country; cognitive skills were measured using test scores from the Finnish Army Basic Skills Test.

* Offered extra-curricular tutoring to prepare students for state exams; raised average math test scores from 75 % to 86 %.

Dutch gadget blog Techtastic points us to a potentially huge leak sourced on Weibo, where an anonymous user with a solid track record has published what he claims are Geekbench benchmark test scores from Apple's A10X.

Using home price data from national real estate brokerage Redfin and school quality data based on test scores from the Stanford Education Data Archive, the New York Times developed a series of interactive charts for a project called Good Schools, Affordable Homes: Finding Suburban Sweet Spots that examine the relations between school quality, home price, and commute.

Genesis anticipates receiving the highest possible crash test scores from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Throw in the car's rearview camera and parking sensors as well as the automatic park assist and the much - hyped blind spot monitor and there's a reason the Audi Q3 2.0 T rates with top crash test scores from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Top crash - test scores from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have earned the 500 status as an IIHS Top Safety Pick, but IIHS has yet to conduct its latest small - overlap frontal test on the car.

Compared to the outgoing model, the 2019 Kia Forte features a stronger body made of 54 percent advanced high - strength steel and expects the car to receive top crash test scores from the IIHS.

Researcher Sean Reardon studied the multiple factors that contribute to the gap, using more than 200 million test scores from schools and districts across the country.

Washington, DC (April 10, 2018)-- The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Executive Director Carissa Moffat Miller issued the following statement on the release of reading and mathematics test scores from the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- al

NAESP is working in conjunction with other education associations to prevent policies that compromise principals» autonomy and policies that tie principals» and teachers» job security solely to standardized test scores from ever becoming law.

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.

A randomized study in Chicago also found large gains in math test scores from implementing mandated, intensive tutoring.

The take - away then is not to hide test scores from the public, but for parents and taxpayers to become as interested and knowledgeable about education as they are about baseball and demand more from the educational establishment.

The most recent state test scores from PARCC in spring 2016 indicate that there has been improvement in pass rates in some grades, but performance from other grades was suppressed due to low numbers of students meeting grade - level standards.

We only rank schools that have published test scores from that state's Department of Education.

The Hartford Guardian has another touting their 8th grade Mastery Test Scores from 2009: Really impressive 90 % stuff.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

And if a lot of those proposals described similar college - prep approaches, former Recovery superintendent Patrick Dobard is the first to admit his district focused on opening schools that raised test scores from the pre-Katrina basement — «like triage,» he said — not on creating a range of school types for parents.

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña unveiled an update to the city's teacher evaluation system Wednesday, a year after state policy makers removed test scores from consideration in most teacher ratings.

The state's move to remove test scores from teacher ratings came amid growing public outcry against Common Core academic standards used in the state exams.

As a result, the ability for parents to compare their children's academic performance by comparing test scores from state to state has been significantly compromised.

But state test scores from spring 2011, used as a measure of student performance, show the opposite: Public school students have outperformed their charter school counterparts.

In what might be the oddest instance of data skepticism, the California Department of Education, led by state Superintendent Tom Torlakson, deleted fifteen years» worth of old test scores from an easily accessible part of its website just before the release of new Common Core - aligned assessment scores in August 2015.

Oklahoma and Hawaii have removed the coupling of student test scores from the evaluations of individual teachers.

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

Multiple - choice SAT scores and SAT Subject Test scores from May are being released.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

Joining the ASA and others, the American Educational Research Association recently declared that it is almost impossible to disentangle this tiny teacher effect on student test scores from other in - school and out - of - school factors.

Not our test scores from this year.

«Value Added Models» (VAMs) for looking at gains in student test scores from one year to the next are promoted as tools to accomplish this goal.

In exchange, the district counts enrollment numbers and student - test scores from the innovation - network schools as part of its overall data picture.

Bottom line: «Growth» is a euphemistic name for a gain in test scores from one point in time to another.

Following test scores from year to year in the same grade, the study finds that statewide improvements in standard Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) scores reported by the Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) between 2008 and 2009 — the period of the largest reported gains — were largely the result of the exclusion of students with disabilities from these standard test results, rather than overall improvements in performance.

Earlier this year, the state board agreed that using test scores from the Standardized Testing and Reporting program and the California Standards Test in English - language arts or Algebra I could be used to evaluate some disabled students for exemption from the exit exam.

Removing the test scores from evaluations will almost certainly result in even fewer teachers» being rated ineffective.

And last year, the Florida Education Association and the National Education Association filed suit arguing that the state's teacher evaluation system, which requires that at least 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on students» test scores from the state standardized exams, is unconstitutional.

It would prohibit mastery test scores from use in teachers» evaluations.

In case you've been off the grid, the Los Angeles Times hired a researcher to analyze seven years of math and English standardized test scores from the LA school district.

The task force itself may recommend decoupling test scores from evaluations or putting in place some kind of moratorium on teacher evaluations, a move that would please many teachers and administrators.

Barshay: What do these high test scores from KIPP Empower, where they're using a lot of computerized instruction in the classroom, tell you?

Several other researchers from Northridge have attempted to study the performance of their teachers after graduation by using student test scores from the classrooms of recent graduates, however.

Based on the percentile gains in test scores from Boston pre-K, the ratio of the present value of the future increase in adult earnings, to the cost of the program, are estimated to be $ 3.22 for children eligible for a subsidized lunch, versus $ 2.30 for middle - class children.

It masks the substantial issues involved in generating meaningful credible actual test scores... whether students have sufficient actual instruction on common core standards prior to operational testing to permit valid test scores, or the fact that while Smarter Balanced may have generated enuf qualified test questions to deliver an actual full test spring 2015 [the so - called «field» test was not an actual test, but rather an exercise to try - out test questions for potential inclusion in an actual test], it still needs actual test scores from spring 2015 to generate credible scoring rules for the test (i.e., «cut scores») for valid reliable fair individual student and aggregate group scores.

Legislation passed last year - SB 1458 by Senate leader Darrell Steinberg - requires changes to the API that reduce the focus on student test scores from 100 percent of the index to 60 percent.

The U.S. Department of Education's massive «Prospects» study in the 1990s found exactly this when it compared test scores from a standardized test to student grades in high and low poverty schools.

The use of test scores from large ‐ scale assessment surveys: psychometric and statistical considerations

One teacher reported that she «never got test scores from April's Idaho Standards Achievement Test last May as she expected.