Sentences with phrase «tests during the school year»

Let's really look at a breakdown of approximately how much time is spent on testing during a school year:

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

In reading, students work at their levels, which are determined by testing during the school year.

One teacher said her school spent at least eight weeks on testing during the school year — and that didn't even include all the associated tasks.

If a student enrolls after this date, they will be tested during the school year during our regular assessment window.

Not exact matches

During their sophomore year of high school, the twins did several ergometer tests on a rowing machine to measure their speed and found to their surprise that their scores ranked them in the top 20 nationally among junior rowers.

His past includes a merchandise robbery with high school football teammates when he was 16, an incident involving nude photos of his then - girlfriend when he was 18, and a failed marijuana test during his sophomore year at Marshall.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Varying surveys of both private and public high school students showed from 80 to 90 percent admitting to some form of cheating during the school year, from copying another student's work to cheating on a test.

During an end - of - year update on security initiatives at a school board committee of the whole meeting, Hughes said district staff had been testing cameras at Orland Jr..

Studying for a test can be scary for young kids, and many educators assume parents will help their kids during the grade - school years.

Quentin Tillman, 5 years old, enjoys a happy meal after school during a national taste test of the new healthier McDonalds Happy Meal in Byram, Miss. (Charles A. Smith / for the Chicago Tribune)

During the early school years, children spend a lot of time learning basics like reading and math — fundamental skills necessary for a productive life (not to mention good test scores!).

The Utica City School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test sSchool District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test sschool during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test scores.

Her junior year, she transferred to a different school where the teachers were more helpful and willing to make some accommodations, like letting her use a note card to remind her of basic math facts during tests.

Between 2012 and 2014, the researchers tested extensively almost 3,000 Indonesian school children, then 9 to 12 years old, whose mothers had participated in an earlier study into the effects of consuming either multiple micronutrient (MMN) supplements or standard iron - folic acid (IFA) supplements during pregnancy.

A Wisconsin law requiring public reporting of test scores from voucher schools went into effect during the last year of the study, 2010, giving researchers a rare look at private - school test scores both before and after the accountability mandate.

I started law school in 2006 and business school in 2007, which means I was going through the testing and application process for my MBA during my first year of law school.

The War Horse author argued that testing in schools, whilst important, kills the joy of reading and that during the early years» children first must experience the wonder and joy of storytelling.

The results for about one - third of these schools are very imprecise, usually because they had very few students in test - taking grades during the analysis years.

High school students engaged in PBL in biology, chemistry, and earth science classes outscored their peers on 44 percent of the items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test during their twelfth - grade year (Schneider, Krajcik, Marx, & Soloway, 2002).

During the four - year pilot period, A + schools showed growth on North Carolina's accountability tests, relative to the state, as well as improvements in organizational capacity and community partnerships, and increased channels of communication.

Both groups of schools saw an increase in the average math and reading scores during the first two years of the bonus program; treatment - group schools, however, did not experience a statistically significant improvement in average test scores relative to the schools in the control group.

NCLB is most often characterized as having been implemented during this year, in part because states were required to use testing outcomes from the prior 2001 — 02 year as the starting point for determining whether a school was making adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to submit draft «workbooks» that described how school AYP status would be determined.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

Because students enter adolescence during their middle - school years, examining the effect of start times as students age allows me to test this theory.

Furthermore, state data collected during the 2002 — 03 year suggest that states moved quickly to adapt to NCLB's new testing requirements and to introduce school - level performance reporting.

To address this situation, CMU required schools to administer a computer adaptive test during a common testing window at the beginning and at the end of the school year.

With the withdrawal of Iowa this week from the Smarter Balanced testing group, there are only 26 states that plan to use one of the two national tests to assess their students during the 2014 - 15 school year.

ACT officials say the insights on grammar and usage will help them as they reshape their college - entrance exam to add an optional, 30 - minute writing test sometime during the 2004 - 05 school year.

Because the effects of competition on the performance of traditional public schools can be identified best during periods in which the amount of competition is changing, these years offer a convenient way to test the effects of expanded school choice.

We exclude from the analysis schools, mostly in rural areas, with addresses we were unable to map and schools with missing test performance measures for any year during our study period, which spans 1996 — 97 to 1999 — 2000.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

How do we fairly assess the impact of a teacher during a testing year if we do not know how students performed during the previous school year?

But not looking at the results of teaching during the school year is part of a broader American tendency to «teach, test, and hope for the best.»

During the 2000 election, incumbents were less likely to seek reelection when their district's test scores declined over the preceding school year.

He spent the spring working with Singer, testing the program and preparing it for implementation during the 2007 - 2008 school year.

Every year, the stress of school reaches a fever pitch during standardized - testing season.

Some reasons are personal: Simone, whose school narrowly dodged state intervention last year, has seen fifth graders arrive on testing day angry about personal matters; others struggled to sit still during the test or broke down in tears under the pressure.

In the program, students who fall below college - level standards on math assessment tests in 11th grade are guided to remedial courses during their senior year in high school, which allows them to start their higher ed career ready for credit bearing coursework.

Every year, during the first week of school, Gruber gives her first - graders a second - grade test in math and reading.

First, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scores.

During their first year in the country, the students will be tested only if school officials recommend that they should be, and even then, their scores will be used only for baseline information.

In the Chicago Public Schools, where 85 percent of the 400,000 - plus students live below the poverty line, test scores, attendance, and teacher retention all went up during Duncan's seven - year tenure, while the dropout rate declined.

During study hall the last week of school with testing done ~ and less assignments for the students to work on ~ I often asked if anyone wished to cut out «fresh» letters for next year's bulletin boards.

Report examines statewide testing for general education students in grades 9 - 12 during the 2006 - 07 school year, including end - of - course tests, exit exams, and college - admissions tests.

Taiwan is a bit of a hybrid, with no required testing in primary school, but a Basic Competency Test at the end of lower secondary (along with three required tests a year in each of three subjects during lower secondary) that determines admission to upper secondary school.

During the 2013 - 14 school year, 2,198 grade - school students refused to take the state's standardized tests.

Here's some news from California's first year of Smarter Balanced testing: The 2015 results show that high school juniors did about as well in demonstrating their readiness for college - level mathematics as they did during other recent years.