Sentences with phrase «through end of year tests»

The new - look GCSEs will see a larger emphasis on exams, with the students assessed almost entirely through end of year tests.

Not exact matches

«We won some big games, and we battled through a lot of injuries — you could make a bunch of excuses, but we try not to do that around here... but the great thing about that team that won a bunch of games at the end was that we played a lot of juniors, and those guys are scattered in with this year's team, so they're battle - tested.»

Eighth graders suffered through five to seven different tests at the end of the 2000 - 01 school year, which caused a boycott in Scarsdale and an outcry in some other districts.

This rich dataset allows us to study students» math and reading test - score growth from year to year in grades four through eight (where end of year and prior year tests are available), while also taking account of differences in student backgrounds.

The PARCC consortium: Figure out a way for schools to opt out of the through - course assessments and take a single end - of - year test instead.

To sum up, our evidence confirms that the students of high - VA teachers benefit not just by scoring higher on math and reading tests at the end of the school year, but also through improved outcomes later in life.

Last school year, the board approved eliminating standardized summative exams — those that test students» knowledge around the end of the school year — in social studies for all grades, and approved reducing science standardized summative tests from grades three through 11 to just grades four, six and 10.

Students from kindergarten through 12th grade are tested at the end of each year.

«Checking in with kids throughout the year through interim and course assessments to see how they're progressing, and then compiling that data into a summative score at the end of the year would make testing more meaningful,» she said.

After participants complete the Orientation and Assessment Testing and are placed into classes, the students will remain registered through the end of the school year unless they choose to officially drop or are dropped by attendance violations.

«Then you have the end of the year test which, quite candidly, the whole system should ignore while they work through their curriculum,» he said.

The $ 29.50 PARCC price tag is for a two - part test, one at the end of the year and one three - quarters of the way through.

It's not measured through a good peer review process, through any kind of a review process, through progress of the students in terms of how well they do on tests in the beginning of the school year versus the end of the school year.

I got interested in test scores at the end of the 1980s when we had 10 - year - old data collected through test scores when young people were ages 14 - 21.

Two years ago we took the decision to introduce department - wide interleaving (and spaced practice) through the introduction of Numeracy Ninjas, weekly skill quizzes (on a mixture of topics) and delayed end - of - unit testing.

The answer is easily accessible through achievement test results assessed at the end of the school year, and then assessed again in the fall for those same students.

There are district tests, state tests, and national tests for students in grades 7 - 12 that begin in March and continue through the end of the school year.

The worst part about our comparison test of the 1998 Porsche Boxster and Mercedes - Benz SLK: Both vehicles are virtually sold out through the end of the year.

Earlier this year we did an Autofile test with the MDX and I was shocked at how well the back end of this big boy rotated around through the slalom and skidpad.

Though this type of allergy testing / treatment may seem cost prohibitive at first, it may end up costing less in the long run compared to years of treatment for secondary infections (not to mention the turmoil your dog goes through).

A Hilton spokesperson told TravelSkills, «Hilton is testing these discounted HHonors member rates in a few markets through the end of the year... Hilton often tests new HHonors benefits to ensure they continue to provide HHonors member with relevant value.»

So if you are a lawyer practicing for many years, you may have some intuition about the way to go in a certain case and now you can test that intuition versus the data and say, okay, I think or I have heard this judge kind of behaves the following way, let me go through the data, and you may end up still making the same decision you were going to make before, or you might make a completely different decision, but now it's a data - driven decision.

Through the years of my professional life, I have continued to develop my facility in producing bug - free software; designing both real life and extreme testing conditions; meeting the needs of both development and end - user communities; and certifying optimal product stability and robustness.

The beta test is scheduled to run through the end of the year and will be expanded in 2017.