Sentences with phrase «tests than standardized tests»

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It's the first thing, other than standardized GMAT test scores, an admissions officer will look at.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

From 1960 to 1988 standardized test scores fell significantly, teenage suicide and homicide rates more than doubled and obesity increased by 50 percent.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

Children who eat breakfast at school — closer to test - taking time — perform better on standardized tests than those who skip breakfast or eat breakfast at home.

Beyond Standardized Tests — Teaching Empathy More than ever children need skills in how to work with changing teams of collaborators and how to seek solutions rooted in the needs of others.

The idea is that grasping the hows and whys embedded in human knowledge (in the larger social context) results in a far greater sense of confidence and empowerment than instilling rote responses to likely standardized testing scenarios.

More students in Glen Ellyn District 89 passed a standardized test this year than last year, data released by the district this month shows.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

Two new Quinnipiac University polls show that New York voters trust the teachers» unions more than Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve education in the state, and two thirds of New York State voters say the Common Core aligned standardized tests are not an accurate way to measure how well students are learning.

In October, for example, after more than 80 % of the parents voted to have their kids not take the exams, Castle Bridge Elementary School canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

New scrutiny (and more than a little scorn) was placed on the state's standardized tests after the now - infamous pineapple question made its way onto an English exam.

Suffolk County school superintendents stepped up efforts to halt the state's next round of Common Core standardized tests, now less than a month away, with a direct appeal to Cuomo.

Schools in the city's Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city's schools, but that doesn't mean they're all safe from the chopping block, the mayor said.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

Amid growing boycotts of standardized tests, Cuomo said the Common Core task force — the second he has created in less than two years — would conduct a «top to bottom review» of the state's academic standards, curriculum and exams.

That suggested the standardized test score ratings were tougher than the evaluations teachers and school leaders developed.

It did, however, note that by its calculations, New York spends more per student than any other state in the country, even as performance on standardized testing continues to lag.

The state's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams because they will be different than last year's tests.

Magee says teachers will be working in the next two years to make sure adopting the Common Core becomes more than just prepping students for standardized tests.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

More than half of school districts on Long Island now have at least some board members emphatically against Common Core - aligned standardized tests and how they are weighted in teacher evaluations.

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

My concern derives from more than a bad day with a standardized test.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

There's a great study of 2 million Danish standardized tests that revealed that students who'd been randomly assigned to take standardized tests in the afternoon scored significantly lower than those randomly assigned to take them in the morning.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

«So here is my prediction: if we tested another culture, with equally limited standardized schooling but egocentric spatial language, they should perform worse than the Haikom.

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

Invivoscribe standardized assays are the industry leading solutions for clonality testing, used in more than 650 laboratories in 65 countries.

Urban students in grades seven and eight who were engaged in the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum demonstrated higher standardized test scores than students engaged in traditional instruction in a sample of 5,000 students.

The payments to commercial firms for standardized testing, standard setting, and accountability in year 2000 amounted to $ 234 million, less than 0.1 percent of K - 2 spending.

His evidence is that the standardized test scores of students earning MBAs are higher than those of doctoral candidates in the same universities» schools of education.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

If we want to change education in the U.S. — more profoundly than we can by reforming curricula or standardized tests or teacher - certification policies — we have to believe, too.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.