Sentences with phrase «when student testing»

Many younger educators, who attended school when student testing took hold, feel more comfortable than veteran teachers using data to alter their teaching methods and to judge their performance.

Thus, the educators working in these low - income districts should be scrutinized and punished when their students test poorly.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

Samuel says performance evaluations are a part of any job, but he understands the apprehension when student test scores come into play.

Then, when the student test scores finally become so embarrassingly low that something must be done, the principal and most of the staff vanish in a burst of housecleaning, followed by new mandates with or without new money.

Eighty percent of teachers surveyed support a value - added assessment when student test scores are used as part of teacher evaluation.

When students test you — and they will — do what the master teachers do.

Not exact matches

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

First, Katia [Beauchamp] and I were students when we started BirchBox, and we had done an MVP test proof - of - concept.

Thirty years ago, when she was a medical student helping to create in - vitro fertilization babies at Toronto's East General Hospital, and never thought she'd be asked whether or not we should eat hamburgers made in test tubes.

The fake news element tests skills like whether a student can tell when data is being presented in a misleading way, and whether students can distinguish between facts, opinions, and propaganda.

When Rip Pruisken and Marco De Leon started testing recipes for their Amsterdam - style stroopwafels (thin waffles with sweet flavoring), they were students living in Brown University's dorm and often blew out the power in the building with their industrial press.

The next legislative session, however, will not begin until March 2019, when students face another round of standardized testing.

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

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.

When I was a student I've prayed prior to every test and I've passed with flying colors.

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.

I tell my students when they start freaking out about a test: relax!

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

When tested with students before the nationwide rollout, 85 % of students preferred Blend burgers over the previous burger.

Even when other students began to tire of the assignment — to make a cookie to present at Bakery Day, an opportunity at the end of term where students showcase signature items — Boran kept asking (and testing) a zillion «what ifs.»

When he finally saw the play live, he felt like a student who knew the answer after reading only half of a test question.

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.

In the Houston study, when there was some minimal improvement in test scores, it was only among the highest - achieving students, not the low achievers.

When you present the facts about school breakfast, and its associated benefits — increased test scores, fewer behavioral problems, improved focus in the classroom — you give stakeholders the opportunity to understand the measurable results that come from feeding students a morning meal.

When I teach sewing classes, I require the students to test drive the sewing machine before we thread the machine or sew on fabric.

When students eat school breakfast it can help decrease visits to the school nurse, tardiness, and absences, while improving behavior, attendance, concentration, standardized test scores and more.

[When he] started to grade these tests, the first one he picked up he noticed that the student had written on top of it: «Can't think.

Many school districts, feeling the intense pressure created by standardized testing, continue to shortchange students when it comes to giving them adequate time to eat.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

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.

These students continue to work hard in a class even after failing a few tests; when they are stumped or confused by complex material, they look for new ways to master it rather than simply giving up.

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

Flamin» Hot (3 min) What happens when a group of Berkeley 6th Grade science students burn a cheese puff and test the results.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

An important theme discussed during the panel was student involvement and acceptability when it comes to school breakfast; student taste testing, student - created recipes, and participation being keys to successful breakfast programs.

For example, while a child who lacks confidence may excel when it comes to studying and performing on tests, he or she may not be willing to try anything else at school to become a more well - rounded student.

When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

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.

When the results of the readjusted 2010 tests were announced, practically all the gains students had made since 2007 were erased.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

«Teachers must be free to protect their students and speak out when they have concerns about state tests.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

«And then when you speak out to protect students from these invalid and oppressive tests that are impeding teaching and learning, the unions are accused of using kids,» he said.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eight graders.

The city school board learned there is no consistency about what to do when a student refuses to take the tests.

Just before the March 31 budget deadline, when it became clear that lawmakers would approve a new evaluation system that relies more heavily on state exams, NYSUT joined the «opt out» push, arguing if enough students refuse the tests, they won't be statistically reliable for use as part of the rating system.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.