Sentences with phrase «tests as a yardstick»

For years now, educators have looked to international tests as a yardstick to measure how well U.S. students are learning 21st - century skills compared to their peers.

Not exact matches

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

«We want to say (to federal officials), «Look, because of the transition (to Common Core), we need elbow room, and there is no way to measure progress from last year to this year, so (let us) use participation rates (in the test) as the yardstick,»» Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said.

That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.