Sentences with phrase «traditional high school assessment»

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«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.

For their part, colleges — the final arbiters of high school performance — are signaling a surprising willingness to depart from traditional assessments that have been in place since the early 19th century.

Maryland is looking at ways to create an innovative, technology - based high school assessment for students who face disadvantages taking traditional paper - and - pencil tests.

And our assessment results were among the highest in both traditional public schools and public charter schools.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

And in some cases, students in charter schools have achieved higher scores on high stakes assessments than those in the traditional public schools.

Topics addressed included: utilizing evidence - based educational assessments; improving educational attainment and access to a traditional high school diploma; credit transfers; timely and appropriate re-enrollment and re-entry planning.

That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments.

A 2011 study of elementary students by Expeditionary Learning Schools found that students in project - based classrooms scored higher on state - mandated assessments than students in more traditional classrooms.

The middle schools and high schools use traditional letter grades, A — F. Although the state's assessment system is uniform in most aspects, the jump between elementary and middle level can be overwhelming for students trying to navigate the waters of early adolescence as well as school structures.

As a high school English teacher, in addition to being an educator, institutional designer and learning analyst with creative approaches to innovate traditional training strategies and assessment, she has a strong background in curriculum development and solutions for organizational goals.