Sentences with phrase «than test scores alone»

Using a variety of assessment measures provides a fuller picture of student learning than test scores alone.

Indiana education officials disagree with Opt Out organizers» assessment, saying they've changed the guidelines of the state's school letter grading system to consider figures other than test scores alone.

Not exact matches

Without accounting for any differences in students» socioeconomic status, the Spanish language and mathematics test scores of students who attend network schools are considerably higher than the scores of those attending stand - alone schools.

What we do know is that even these go - it - alone states have made it more challenging to pass their tests, by setting their «cut scores» at dramatically higher levels than before.

Even better, they were hoping that the combination of classroom observations, student surveys, and previous test score gains would be a much better predictor of future test score gains (or of future classroom observations) than any one of those measures alone.

That is, assessing programs with value - added measures is easier than it is with test scores alone because the value - added measures account for differences in the students that teachers teach.

There's a strong correlation between lower socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story of what's happening in a given school building.

And those have been followed - up by further research finding that that ninth - grade teachers who are particularly good in helping student acquire non-cognitive skills are more successful «much larger in magnitude» in having students graduate and attend college than those whose work results in higher test scores alone (see You'll Want To Read This Interview With Education Researcher Kirabo Jackson).

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