Sentences with phrase «test takers»

Use those results to identify the top 5 percent or so of test takers in each school or district, not the top 5 percent in the entire city.

Since 2005, the proportion of test takers in D.C. that identify as Black continuously declined while the proportion of Hispanic and White students steadily increased.

For example, they can hold lotteries to accept students, can turn away students who are not good test takers, and keep the student funding allocation, even when the student leaves the school mid-year.

The consent decree had required the LSAC to stop flagging test scores of disabled test takers who requested extra time, and changed how the LSAC handled requests for accommodations.

Computerized adaptive testing (CAT), which was first developed four decades ago (Weiss & Betz, 1973; Weiss & Kingsbury, 1984), begins with a large pool of questions and then selects individual questions for test takers, depending on their responses as they go along.

Sixty - seven percent of the first - time test takers passed.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

Some of the most intelligent people and successful people out there are just not test takers.»

In Bedford - Stuyvesant's District 16, for example, just 15 percent of test takers passed last year.

While hardly seismic, a rattle of protests are emerging from test takers who say they were not given a fair shake.

CCSA's Minimum Academic Accountability Criteria would not apply if a school is ASAM / Alternative, less than four years old, or has less than 30 valid test takers.

Hear why successful test takers fail the Bar exam, the growing prominence of the Uniform Bar Exam, and...

«Current automated essay - scoring systems can not directly assess some of the more cognitively demanding aspects of writing proficiency, such as audience awareness, argumentation, critical thinking, and creativity... A related weakness of automated scoring is that these systems could potentially be manipulated by test takers seeking an unfair advantage.

A new mobile application is available to help test takers prepare for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) standardized exam.

You need one traditional public school to absorb the bad test takers who make you look bad.

In a contested study that followed, a group of researchers claimed the so - called «Obama effect» had raised the achievement of African - American students so much that it erased the gap between black and white test takers.

Meanwhile, 34 percent of test takers failed to meet any of the four benchmarks, up from 31 percent last year.

Because of the need for nationally standardized achievement tests to provide fine - grained, percentile - by - percentile comparisons, it is imperative that these tests produce a considerable degree of score spread — in other words, plenty of differences among test takers» scores.

About 20 percent of eligible test takers in New York refused to take the tests; that's about 200,000 students.

Location: Dallas, TX Enrollment: 209 Economically Disadvantaged Students (% of Total Enrollment): 24.9 Minority Enrollment (% of Total): 51.2 Quality - Adjusted Exams Per Test Taker: 8.0 College Readiness Index: 100.0

There's a general version that compares test takers against the norm.

Darling - Hammond wrote, with her Stanford colleague Frank Adamson, the 2014 book Beyond the Bubble Test, which describes a very different vision of assessment: tests that pose open - ended questions (the answers to which are evaluated by teachers, not machines); that call on students to develop and defend an argument; and that ask test takers to conduct a scientific experiment or construct a research report.

Student test takers decide for themselves which side to argue when writing their essay, and which evidence to draw from which resources.

Between 1951 and 1963, the number of test takers went from 81,000 to nearly 1 million; test scores rose slightly.»

«Norm - referenced tests report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student»

«A» student Erin Farley (@erinnnfarley) says she was not a great test taker and she wonders: «Is the focus on standardized testing useful for students in their future careers?»

They wondered, Were students preoccupied by the sheer number of other test takers they were «competing» against or by distractions that might occur in a larger space — more noises, for example?

Compton - Lilly says some people are just poor test takers, but do well in their course work and prove themselves as student teachers, so she'd like to see changes to the requirements to promote intensive coursework in reading and have an opportunity for a waiver for capable students who just can't pass the FORT.

NCES noted a troubling trend in scores since two years ago: Even as the status quo held stable for most test takers, scores for the highest - performing eighth - graders (those scoring at the 75th and 90th percentiles) nosed higher, while those for the lowest - performing students (those at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined in fourth - grade math, eighth - grade math, and fourth - grade reading.

First, get help from former test takers who took and specialize in your specific exam.

Officials from the Mississippi Department of Education said in a press release they expect the grant will help low - income test takers by lowering the cost of the exams from $ 93 to $ 15 per test.

Mary Gallucci, a former educator and parent from Windham, said being a good or excellent test taker does not translate into being a successful student who can think and solve problems creatively, as is demanded in most universities, vocational schools, and careers.

Baker Elementary in south Jackson helped its bottom 25 percent of test takers improve reading proficiency more than any other elementary school in the state.

It is against the law for ANY Driving School vehicles to be on the DMV route, within 500 feet of the DMV, practicing with potential test takers.

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.»

Put another way, European institutions received 85,262 score reports from people who took the GMAT exam in 2010, up nearly 90 % from the 45,079 score reports test takers sent to European institutions in 2006.

A third issue with the GRE exam is its financial burden on test takers.

They break test takers down into three categories:

A Great Hearts education prepares students to be more than just proficient test takers, but rather, to become great - hearted leaders capable of success throughout their higher education and professional careers.

Taking this approach can help even the most hesitant and stressed - out test takers take preparation one day at a time.

Only 48 % of Rockville Centre first - time test takers achieved that score.

Test takers requesting digital test taking are provided with an HTML version of the file placed on a USb key with high security.

The test itself has come under fire, with new research showing test takers can get drastically different results upon repeat takings.

I am, however, a somewhat talented test taker.

I am an awful test taker and would crumble then and there.