Sentences with phrase «took student test»

The Ken - Ton school board is seeking changes in state education funding and the board will also consider taking student test performance out of the equation for teacher evaluations.

While job security for teachers was traditionally pegged to years of experience, new laws are taking student test scores into consideration.

At the same time, agreements that most states have made with the Department of Education will require them to institute teacher and school evaluation systems that take student test scores into account, based on year - to - year progress.

Mr. Cerf said districts that want the federal funds must also set up a teacher evaluation system that takes student test scores and other measures of student progress into account — a nearly unheard - of practice in New Jersey.

Not exact matches

Globally, more than 29,000 students took the test.

Real - life behavioral psychology: Students have to make a major life decision in the middle of taking the most stressful math test they've ever had.

Upon entering the program, each student takes a diagnostics test, which is designed to highlight the areas the student struggles and excels in.

The OECD hoped that the test, which launches this year, would be taken alongside the organisation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, which is used to compare education systems.

Students took a test similar to the LSAT and then had to predict how many questions they got right.

After testing beta versions with friends, they launched their student loan payment app ChangEd in April 2017 and also took their idea to a January 2018 episode of «Shark Tank,» where they received an offer from Mark Cuban.

Sembler and his wife, Betty, are cofounders of the Drug Free America Foundation, a group that supports drug - testing students, opposes taking a harm - reduction approach to drug addiction, and claims that «crude» marijuana is not medicine.

While Stoneman Douglas students can wait until next year to take the tests, some families worry it will be hard to pass them after all the class time they've missed.

Instead, he said, it might make more sense for Stoneman Douglas or the Broward school district to provide students with extra academic support, like an Algebra I refresher, before they take the test.

Scott's office also pointed to a memo sent by Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to Runcie last month detailing how students who do not wish to take the test this spring can take them later in the fall or next spring, or they can take alternative assessments to satisfy graduation requirements.

In the meantime, Broward's chief academic officer, Daniel Gohl, told Thompson he doesn't recommend students take the tests this semester.

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.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

In one experiment, researchers told the students the test they were taking would gauge their career success and then asked students whether they believed God had a hand in that success.

If a test falls on a day when a student will be out for religious reasons, he or she must be given the right to take a make - up test, for example.

Came final exam time, I tested how well these testings of student prejudices by primary sources had taken hold.

Taste testing also allowed the students to sample menu items before taking the dish.

The instructor clipped a microphone to his neck and began to go over a test the students had taken.

The honor was awarded to all the students that placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT).

Those courses, according to the allegations, allowed the students to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

And in the elementary school, this year the third - grade students took their first big state test.

We have found that when teachers allow students to take home graded tests and then turn in test corrections, the students can learn from their mistakes and eventually understand the material in depth.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Some schools even require students who take AP courses to take the AP test, and I've heard of schools that will downgrade on a student's transcript a course from AP to honors if that student fails to take the AP test.

Learning to take tests can be an overwhelming process for many students.

There I was, a 20 - year old college student who just took a pregnancy test and came back positive.

Students took diagnostic tests before starting the courses, and were allocated workbooks depending on their abilities.

Final exams can make or break a student's semester, and many kids feel the pressure, especially when test - taking anxiety sets in.

The student shall take any nationally normed student achievement test administered by a certified teacher;

Some high schools in B.C. are weaning students off «fear of failure» by allowing them, after a failed test result, to review the unit on which the test was based and then take a different version of the test on the same topic.

While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college - bound students will need to take at least one of these tests.

«I am proud to have fought for this proposal, and to be able to provide funding for students to take free test preparation classes, in addition to investing in outreach coordinators at each of the specialized high schools.

Approximately 30,000 students will take up to three - hour - long field tests for new Common Core - based exams starting Monday — a week ahead of official state exams that will count students» scores in math and English.

A survey covering 2005 through 2013 found 71.6 percent of rising eighth graders were students of color, but only 52 percent of those students took an admissions test for specialized high schools.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

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.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the Assembly will take up a bill Wednesday to decouple the results of standardized student test scores from teacher evaluations.

About 88 percent of eligible students in grades three through six took this year's state tests.

State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

Students would continue taking standardized state tests in reading and math annually in grades three to eight and at least once in high school.

At the same time, the 2010 national Common Core standards were being implemented, and the number of standardized tests that students were required to take multiplied.

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

The movement has had a stark impact on the number of students in grades 3 - 8 in Nassau and Suffolk counties taking state tests since 2012 — the last year that non-Common Core tests were given.

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.