Sentences with phrase «test scores of»

It offered billions of dollars to incentivize states to engage in activities for which there is no research or evidence, like evaluating teachers by the test scores of their students.

And if teachers are undermining accountability they must be doing a pretty poor job of it — we live in a time of unbelievable obsession with standardized testing, and teacher evaluation systems based on test scores of subjects that most teachers don't even teach — and from students they don't even know.

Now the department will compare the test scores of students with disabilities with those of students not designated as having special needs.

The many problems with these, such as teachers being evaluated based on entire schools» test scores or on test scores of students they have never taught, have been identified.

The CSDE released the SAB test scores of the 2014 - 2015 and 2015 - 2016 school years for English Language Arts (ELA) and Math [ref] Children continue to use the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT: grades 3 — 9) and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT: grades 10 — 12) for science (Cheshire Public Schools, 2017).

The study, published in School Effectiveness and School Improvement, looked at reading test scores of more than 200,000 15 - year - olds from over 8,000 mixed - sex schools around the world.

4) The test scores of students in the United States relative to the test scores of students around the world aren't all that different than what students» self - reports of their socioeconomic status would predict.

Johnson's six - year superintendency saw the test scores of our students fall from next to the top of major Texas districts to next to the bottom, aided by gradually lowered pass rates on the state's TAKS exam.

In May and June, she criticized the uneven test scores of Highlander Charter School in Providence, indicating she might shut the school down after the 2010 - 11 school year.

on Low - income inner - city achievement gap starts to close, test scores of urban school districts improve faster than nation over past 10 years, Washington D.C. stands out

Much attention was given to the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences (IES) recent release of findings related to test scores of OSP students.

The overall results illustrate two fundamental problems: It's easier to boost scores in math than it is in reading, and the test scores of older students have not increased.

From these data, the researchers calculated a 10 percent increase in student test scores of an average principal who improved her «demonstrated abilities in all 21 responsibilities by one standard deviation» (p. 3).

More than 34,000 Indiana students received vouchers in the 2016 - 17 school year.12 The study used a matching methodology to compare the test scores of students who transferred to participating voucher schools with similar students who remained in public schools.

NCLB mandated that states judge schools and districts, and impose punishments, based on test scores of the entire school and district and of subgroups of students: different ethnic groups, English language learners, children living in poverty and students with disabilities.

A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of their students, though little is known about the program's impact at the school level.

Our preferred models suggest that the combined average effects on test scores of investments in both programs at 2009 funding levels are equivalent to two to four months of instruction in grade 3.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.

The proliferation of private schools in Sweden have increased competition with public schools, and, as research has shown, actually increased test scores of public schools.

The scores were analyzed to see which teachers consistently raised the test scores of their students and which lowered them.

A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of...

Another policy threatened by removing annual testing requirements is the assessment of teachers by the test scores of their students.

Using data from Danish schools between 2002 and 2010, researchers compared the test scores of students who changed schools at age 16 to their siblings who stayed at the same school for their adolescent years.

In 2010, the Los Angeles Times acquired test scores of elementary students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

First, we analyzed other standardized test scores of students with disabilities who had not passed the CAHSEE.

The economists had a pretty good measure of the type of gas in each tank: the eighth - grade test scores of schools» incoming students.

In Arizona, one of the first states to authorize charter schools, in 1995, the standardized test scores of charter school students are lower than for those in public schools.»

A November 2013 Mathematica study conducted for the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education shows that paying good teachers $ 20,000 to transfer to a low performing elementary school raised the test scores of students by 4 to 10 percentile points.

For many general education teachers, the impact of the test scores of students with disabilities on their value - added scores is relatively limited.

Student achievement growth may have a role to play, but using test scores of these students to determine that growth presents unique challenges to value - added modeling.

The school met its three - year improvement goals in a single year and achieved the greatest gains in state test scores of all 35 of the state's «Level 4» schools, including significant gains in both English and mathematics.

Because math and English test scores are available, reformers have devised bizarre implementation methods in which teachers are assessed on the test scores of students they don't have or subjects they don't teach.

Indiana education officials say they're confident their plan is a better way to hold schools accountable for the test scores of their students than «No Child's» AYP system.

Below is a slideshow of interactive charts that you can use to explore the test scores of charter schools, charter school networks, and the NYC charter school sector as a whole.

And an ill - conceived teacher evaluation system that relies significantly on the standardized test scores of students.

This change allows schools to continue to count the high - stakes test scores of students who are no longer classified as LEP, because they have attained English proficiency, in the LEP subgroup for two additional years after they have become English proficient.

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

Comparing students with the same parental preferences but who attend different programs, we find that the ELA test scores of ELs in all bilingual programs grow at least as fast as, if not faster than those in English immersion.

For that reason, USA TODAY used open - records laws to secure the test scores of millions of individual students from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Arizona — and Washington, D.C., then analyzed them to determine long - term trends for those individuals.

Moreover, the previous test scores of high school students, which are the most important variable used in value - added models, may be only weakly related to standardized or end - of - course tests.

A 2009 study of the Round Rock Independent School District in Texas found that the math and reading test scores of third and fifth grade ELLs increased following the implementation of blended learning and the use of interactive whiteboards.

If a fourth - grade teacher was rated low - performing and removed, they compared the test scores of fourth graders before and after the removal in that same school.

«These participating teachers have (had evaluations) based on the test scores of students they do not teach or in subjects they do not teach,» said Andy Ford, president of the FEA.

Using data from California schools that received SIG funds, this study found significant improvements in the test scores of schools on the «lowest - achieving» margin but not among schools on the «lack of progress» margin.

The test scores of WAVA / K12 INC students are much lower than the Washington State average.

Within - class and cross-grade programs, which entail moderate amounts of curricular adjustment, boost test scores of higher aptitude students by about 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviations, or by 2 to 3 months on a grade - equivalent scale.

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman - Pines, and Christina Gibson - Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs.

The test scores of a given school may be above average simply because it has a high percentage of talented and advantaged students.

So far, the Education Department has found little if any difference in the test scores of kids who got vouchers to attend private school.

Test scores of middle and lower aptitude students taught in XYZ classes are indistinguishable from test scores of similar students in mixed classes.