Sentences with phrase «to take the test this year»

She's also concerned that most of the students who take the test this year may do poorly.

Students with lower scores on the test last year were more likely to opt out of taking the test this year than students with higher scores.

Sure enough, when I asked Russell Howe, a staff mathematician who had taken the test years ago, to try it again with a new batch of objects, he radiated something akin to joy as he plucked out one item after another, describing their functions in loving detail as he pulled, twisted, bent, and manipulated.

• The average student spends approximately 19.8 hours taking tests each year.

Wheeler estimates only two or three students will take the tests this year in the third grade.

In New Jersey, for example, 5 percent of students did not take the tests this year.

In Orange County, fewer than 100 students typically take the test each year.

At Venice High School and Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets: Health and Sports Medicine, the data showed that there was a large increase in the number of students who took the test this year compared to the previous year.

The parents of over 55,000 students opted out of taking the tests this year, including the children of the Republican candidate for governor, Rob Astorino.

ACT said that of the 1.2 million students throughout the country who took its tests this year, only 22 percent were ready for college - level work in English, mathematics, and science.

Fest said she's heard that many parents are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on private tutoring for their kids to take the test this year, when the curriculum is fresh in their minds.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has done little publicly to rally students to take the tests this year, beyond placing online a fact sheet on what parents need to know about the assessments and frequently asked questions about the tests.

Less than one - third of the 3 million students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 who will take the test this year have completed the new online Smarter Balanced assessments that are tied to the Common Core, the statement said.

But North Haven Superintendent of Schools Robert Cronin encouraged parents to direct their children to take the test this year, making it the subject of his December letter to parents.