Sentences with phrase «tests for different schools»

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It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

Schools, at least high schools, should also stagger test days — different days for different departments — and maybe stagger due dates for papers aSchools, at least high schools, should also stagger test days — different days for different departments — and maybe stagger due dates for papers aschools, should also stagger test days — different days for different departments — and maybe stagger due dates for papers as well.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

The Regents also plan to work with local school districts to cut down on unnecessary tests and develop a different curriculum for mentally disabled children, instead of holding them to the standards of non-disabled students.

In a paper presented at the NARST annual meeting, Abel showed how a detailed analysis of answers in a multiple choice test on elementary - school energy ideas showed which misconceptions were popular and persistent for different students.

In their response to an accompanying editorial, the researchers admit that this difference may be partially due to a lack of parity in both the available resources for and scheduling of clinical testing at different schools.

The team from the Technical University of Munich (Gemany), the Harvard T.H. Chang School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Texas A&M University (all USA) tested a broad palette of different β - lactones for antimycobacterial activity and hit a bullseye: Compound «EZ120» inhibits the biosynthesis of the mycomembrane and kills off the bacteria.

The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

For example, the study compares results from schools that took several different standardized tests without making any effort to ensure that the results are comparable.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

Dr Hinz says that while standardised testing has existed in Australia for some time, NAPLAN is the first test where the results of schools in different states could be easily compared and were also available to parents and the public.

He also designs strategic plans, devises study syllabuses, runs quality - check observations, and develops materials and tests for different language institutes and schools in the country.

Beginning this school year, standardized tests — as administered by the two major assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)-- will look different from what we've gotten used to.

For our second report, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scored 7,500 lesson videos for 1,333 teachers in six school districts using five different classroom - observation instrumenFor our second report, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scored 7,500 lesson videos for 1,333 teachers in six school districts using five different classroom - observation instrumenfor 1,333 teachers in six school districts using five different classroom - observation instruments.

Since then, test scores have shot up — a major accomplishment for a student population that is 60 percent low - income and 22 percent refugee and that comes to school speaking 28 different languages.

Those who can choose what sort of school their child attends by moving to a different district, or knowing enough to apply to a lottery, or prepping them for Gifted & Talented testing (many more qualify than there are seats), or paying for private school unassisted.

Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students» failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Among different race - ethnic groups, the numbers who complete high school through an alternative means (ie., a GED test) are fairly even (6.9 percent for whites, 8.5 percent for blacks, and 8.6 percent for Hispanics).

«Single draft, single authored compositions created at school desks with pen and paper, under restricted time and in response to imposed topics and text types are quite different from writing for authentic purposes,» the authors write, but add that's exactly what happens in a lot of classrooms and how it is tested in Australia's NAPLAN Writing Test at Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Chartering can advance district improvement efforts through R&D, i.e., be a laboratory for testing different approaches and ideas that are replicated in district schools.

And while they continued to ignore it, the misuse of tests became ever more extreme, in some cases reaching truly absurd levels — for example, «evaluating» teachers based on the scores obtained by teachers in other schools or teaching other subjects to different students.

Today we find out how one school has been using prototypes and cardboard mock - ups to test the effectiveness of different learning settings and configurations in preparation for a site rebuild.

Helping schools The SJA offers a wide range of UK and European tours for both primary and secondary schools, some of which have been tried - and - tested over many years whilst others are created at the request from schools who want to try something a little different or have a specific purpose or place in mind.

The national pupil database (NPD) contains detailed information about pupils in schools and colleges including test and exam results, prior attainment and progression at different key stages for pupils.

The guide includes background on some of the controversy surrounding testing; information about different types of tests and what standardized tests measure and do not measure; advice on communicating with school officials and talking with your child about tests; and a glossary and list of additional resources for parents.

These two arguments were based on different models for how reform based on standards and tests would impact schools and students.

The tests used to determine growth would have to be reasonable and valid and be used schoolwide or districtwide, rather than have different tests for teachers of the same grade and subject in the same school, Saxton said.

The rest opted for different schools, often prioritizing a closer location over test scores.

Description: In Minnesota, schools are proactive in preparing families for a perceived testing dip, saying that although scores may be lower, it has more to do with different criteria being observed than a lack of quality education.

The law calls for annual tests in reading and math for children in grades 3 through 8, plus a science test in three different grade levels by the 2007 - 08 school year.

Standards and tests are essential for parents and policymakers to identify faltering schools and gauge the effectiveness of different programs, but they do not themselves solve the problems that they illumine.

Because fewer students passed the test than passed the previous high school exam, the Maryland Board of Education is now considering whether to lower the score needed to pass the test or to issue two different diplomas, one for students who pass the PARCC exam and are ready for college and one for students who get a lower score on the test.

And partly it's because of the fragmentation of America's primary - secondary education system itself — 14,000 school districts, fifty different sets of state standards and tests — that makes disrupting this industry, indeed even entering this market, such a challenge for small publishing upstarts.

And for the study to be testing something, schools on each side of the cutoff need to be doing different things.

State and federally driven mandates for curriculum, state testing, teacher certification, and fiscal management are no different for charter schools than they are for any other public school system.

For example, middle school students learning to subtract mixed numbers might use several different methods and substeps to solve different types of problems within that unit, and a teacher might give multiple formative tests on the subject.

It said children might need to take tests for several schools on different days and that further complications came from the use of banding (where schools take a proportion of children from different ability bands) alongside other criteria such as catchment area, feeder schools or a pupil's faith.

Not only do we pay for our rent using the per - pupil funding we receive from the state, but the consequences of continued low test scores have a completely different meaning for charter schools.

Tools and processes that pass the tests of reliability and validity, and that are flexible enough to take different school contexts into account (leading a large suburban high school, for example, is different from leading a small rural elementary school).

The Whole Child, Whole Person Summit will raise awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.

Schools can not, for example, have different test score requirements based on gender or race.

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You may also find that colleges have very different testing requirements for home - schooled students than other applicants.

If California takes advantage of the offered flexibility, teachers and schools will get relief from having to administer (and be held accountable for) the results of two different sets of tests next year: the current CST exams and the new Common Core assessments.

To help parents make sense of the assessments that their children take in school, it can be helpful if schools provide information about the different reasons for all the tests given.

For example, teachers at the middle school level used three different reading assessments and lacked common protocols for testiFor example, teachers at the middle school level used three different reading assessments and lacked common protocols for testifor testing.

So it's possible for a school to receive results for one student, but receive results on a different day for another student who was tested at the same time.

Indiana isn't moving away from A-F letter grades for schools, but the metrics underlying the statewide accountability system will look a lot different moving forward — and it could mean more state tests.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.