Sentences with phrase «well students score on standardized tests»

The index, based largely on how well students score on standardized tests such as the Stanford 9, is part of a 3 - year - old carrot - and - stick program designed to make schools more accountable.

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A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine studied eighth grade math students and found gum chewers scored 3 percent better on standardized math tests and achieved better final grades (Wrigley Science Institute, 2009).

Officials say changes Illinois has made in how it categorizes student performance — called cut scores - on standardized tests mean parents and community members must look beyond the report to evaluate how well the...

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

Studies have shown that students who eat breakfast at school score better on standardized tests and skip school or are tardy less often.

These students also scored significantly better on California state standardized math and English tests.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

There is precious little research demonstrating the value of school counselors on student achievement ~ with good reason it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of counselors on standardized test scores ~ which have come to define achievement in recent years.

Achieving these expectations results in students who score well on standardized tests and go to college.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

But, Esquith's students also attend school six days a week, score in the top five to ten percent nationally in standardized tests, and go on to some of the best universities in the country.

With a better understanding of why it is so inane — and destructive — to evaluate schools using students» scores on the wrong species of standardized tests, you can persuade anyone who'll listen that policy makers need to make better choices.

But now the CFR study says that teachers who are unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests today aren't just unusually good at helping students score high on standardized tests tomorrow.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

The cry is for good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be tossed out of classrooms, based on student achievement assessed by scores on standardized tests.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

Furthermore, high school GPA provides a more well - rounded account of a student than a score on a corporately produced standardized test.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

The San Diego - area Barona Indian Charter School, for example, posted big gains in student performance on standardized test scores in the 2003 - 2004 school year, besting the state average.

Some in the District also say that test scores rose because the percentage of white students — who traditionally do better on standardized tests — has grown in District schools in recent years.

Summary: Americans overwhelmingly think there is too much emphasis on standardized testing in public schools and that test scores are not the best way to judge schools, teachers or students, according to a national poll.

Distilling critics» fears to the common denominator, one finds an overarching concern that the current discussion about IPS reform will center on shifting control of money and power without genuine awareness of what techniques could best shape IPS students into life - long learners capable of achieving success on a broader plane than that defined by standardized test scores.

The studies examined schools that scored well on standardized or criterion - referenced tests while serving students from inner - city areas or neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

The analysis looked at the first two years of a four - year program, which has multiple steps, including increased teacher development, and an incentive payment scheme in which teachers are paid more when their students do better on standardized test scores.

He was a co-author of a study that showed that teachers who helped students raise standardized test scores had a lasting effect on those students» future incomes, as well as other lifelong outcomes.

For example, teachers of color can better identify and promote giftedness in students of color: These students score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.

While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.

California has identified English learners based on how well they do on the language development test but has left it up to districts and students» teachers to also weigh a mix of factors, including teacher judgment, scores on other standardized academic tests and parent consultations.

Billions spent on collecting standardized test scores have successfully given us a sense of how students perform across school districts and states (the answer: not very well), but they do little to tell us meaningfully about how individual students are doing.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

The studies, both by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that as many as a third of students sidetracked into remedial classes because of their scores on standardized tests would have earned a B or better if they had simply proceeded directly to college - level courses.

In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency found that that students who attend schools in poor condition score 11 percent lower on standardized tests than students who attend schools in good condition.

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

Seymour also said that using reverse - seniority for layoff considerations served the district better than teacher evaluations based on student standardized test scores.

LA Unified's scores on state standardized tests continue to fall below the state average, even though its students posted slightly better gains, according to results released Wednesday.

Teachers credit the program with renewing their students» interest in science, as well as improving their scores on Michigan's standardized science tests.

The following chart (some of which I've published before) indicates that schools cream off a select group of students — students who end up doing statistically better on standardized test scores.

In a curious choice, the «Odds» list is based on how well a school's low - income students score on standardized tests but does not take into account how many low - income students it has.

Tying teacher evals to student test scores on a narrow focus standardized test is a dumb idea and putting it off for a year won't make it any better.

This means that similar students (i.e. students that score similarly on state standardized tests) have been making more progress (score better the next year than students with similar scores in the past) in Denver than Boulder across all student groups.

His son, who usually did well in school, had scored too low on a standardized test to qualify for the district's program for gifted students.

And with these students less distracted and more engaged in school, they do better on their academics; they average 11 percentile points higher on standardized test scores than do students without SEL training.

Most efforts to lift struggling schools focus on students with the lowest scores on standardized tests, as well as students who are «on the bubble» — not college - bound students who presumably are meeting grade - level expectations.

Many schools use student scores on standardized tests for making decisions in terms of grouping and class placement as well as other generalizations about the student.

In an effort to settle the case, the district and its teachers» union reach agreement on an evaluation program that factors in standardized test scores as well as Academic Growth over Time, a mathematical formula used to measure student achievement.

Windham Superintendent Ana Ortiz said her district already implemented a gifted school in one section of Windham Middle School this academic year, devoting four teachers to work with 127 students in grades 3 to 8 who scored well on standardized tests.