Sentences with phrase «test scores when»

Turkish immigrant children, on average, had lower HLE, cognitive, and speaking proficiency test scores when compared to their German peers.

Remember that they will often consider much more than just grades and test scores when making admissions decisions.

Upstart will consider your alma mater, job history, major, grades and test scores when calculating APRs (from 7.37 % to 29.99 %).

As it turned out the final official test scores when they arrived weren't too shabby.

A Commitment to Excellence Drives Accelerated Test Scores When Hardy Brown opened, they had a goal of 800 API in five years; they achieved this goal in three.

This school had lower test scores when we started, but as we continued to develop the relationship between home and school, a strange thing happened.

In response to the growing public concern about the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the inappropriate and unfair use of standardized test scores when evaluating Connecticut's public school teachers, a growing number of state representatives and state senators are stepping forward and introducing legislation that would stop, or at least slow down, the damaging Corporate Education Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in Connecticut.

Charter schools in Indiana are among the nation's best at raising student test scores when compared with other public schools, a Stanford University study showed.

Auditors recognized the difficulty of increasing test scores when scores are already very high.

What happens to student test scores when super-high-achieving college graduates spend a couple of years teaching in low - income schools?

This is not surprising, but a good reminder of how much poverty is (co) related with achievement captured by test scores when growth is not considered.

Claiming to «speak for their members» the AFT endorsed Malloy, despite the fact that he remains committed to a teacher evaluation system that includes the use of unfair, inappropriate and absurd standardized test scores when determining whether a teacher is doing a good job or not.

A lot of people talk about the value of formative assessment, but Carol Ann Tomlinson points out that, too often, it is reduced to a mechanism for raising end - of - year - test scores when it should be an ongoing exchange between a teacher and his or her students designed to help students grow.

But Grim said what Bennett didn't discuss in his media rollout of the state's intervention plan yesterday was that Washington Community High School is in year two of a three - year turnaround plan with the state, which called on a third - party organization to help the school improve its test scores when it was written.

The primary purpose of the research featured in this review is to evaluate the comparability of test scores when assessments are administered with...

I got interested in test scores at the end of the 1980s when we had 10 - year - old data collected through test scores when young people were ages 14 - 21.

To the contrary, we have school officials on the record saying that they do not look at test scores when making enrollment decisions and / or that they have workarounds for students without scores.

The state has proposed using English language arts and math standardized test scores in grades 3 to 8, science test scores when available, an English learner indicator, high school graduation rates, suspension rates, chronic absenteeism, college and career readiness, school climate, parent engagement and school conditions as part of its evaluation.

A 2015 NZCER survey found just 18 percent of parents or guardians of New Zealand high schoolers said they looked at a school's annual test scores when choosing a school.

These are great examples of why you can't judge a teacher's quality by just comparing students» test scores when they started with a teacher to their scores when they finished with that teacher.

(ASCD members report that their state officials advise them to prepare for significant drops in student test scores when the new assessments are initially implemented.)

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

As a result, Cassellius wrote,» we may see what looks like a drop in reading test scores when they are reported this summer.»

Today a coalition of colleges and universities led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report, «Turning the Tide,» that says colleges and universities should focus more on ethical engagement than test scores when considering prospective students.

The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively affect the chance that a student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.

In this episode, Patrick Wolf joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss why researchers should consider other outcomes besides test scores when evaluating school choice programs.

Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectiveness.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

As part of the 2015 state budget lawmakers voted to create the new teacher evaluation system that places a greater emphasis on student test scores when evaluating the job performance of teachers and principals.

Teachers fear that they will be evaluated on their pupils» test scores when there wasn't enough time to prepare and teach the new material.

Teachers fear they will be evaluated on their pupils» test scores when there wasn't enough time to prepare and teach the new material.

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Better yet, when tested on the same material thirty days later, the interleaving group scored 76 percent better than the block - taught group.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

When the devices were tuned up and turned on, the patients» scores on memory tests improved by up to 30 percent.

It's counter-intuitive, but Grant says a study involving a math test has confirmed the finding: «When the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might fWhen the defensive pessimists distracted themselves with another task right before the math test, their scores were about 25 percent lower than when they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might fwhen they listed the most extreme outcomes that could happen in the test, and how they might feel.

He dutifully put candidates through personality testing, but when a low score seemed to discredit his favorite prospect, he decided to go with his gut.

Canadians aged 55 to 75 get an average grade of «C» when their knowledge of annuities is put to the test, scoring an average of 3 out of 5 questions right.

When you let the results define you — your talent, your test scores, your weight, your job, your performance, your appearance — you become the victim of a fixed mindset.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

I have done a lot of onpage optimization, and I get 75 % woorank score when I run a test.

My one question is... since when do you have to score well on a test to be able to believe or not believe in something?

Also calling us stupid is difficult when Christian schools score higher on SAT tests than atheistic public schools.

When members of Wiltshire Church took the world view test described in chapter 6, the congregation made the highest empiric and lowest charismatic scores of any church yet tested.

Therefore it shouldn't surprise you that we are way down the list when it comes to test scores and proficiency in the sciences and mathematics.

Both the High Veg Pots and Soup & Dippers achieved outstanding scores when tested with consumers, which is very promising for retailers as only 10 % of new products achieve this rating.»

Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.

The same help, he said, was offered to him by his own instructors when he first began a tour of duty in which officers are expected to score 100 percent on the monthly written tests, and anything below 90 percent is a failing grade.

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

In last week's 2 - 1 defeat by Liverpool Benteke wasted two fine chances while the score remained 1 - 1, but when Alexander Sorloth and Connor Wickham have already been ruled out, Palace could struggle without him and are relying on a positive outcome to a late fitness test.

When the testing numbers of a certain player stand out starkly from the numbers I expected from their film, I'll go back and grind some more tape, to see if I need to adjust my tape score.