Sentences with phrase «which low test scores»

The gains are not an artifact of the elimination of social promotion in 3rd grade or of the ease with which low test scores can be lifted.

Worse, the attitude that if a child fails a test she should take comfort that it is only a «brief failure» is completely out of touch with the severely punitive nature of high - stakes testing these days, in which a low test score can mean a student does not graduate, teachers are fired, and whole schools are shut down.

Not exact matches

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on tests such as the California Verbal Learning Test, which requires participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.

But the team doesn't know what aspect of fracking caused the low birth weights, which put babies at higher risk for infant mortality, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, lower test scores, and lower lifetime earnings.

In a hypothetical group of 1,000 fracture patients, of which all had an incident fracture and a T - score lower than an age - matched population, and assuming FLS increases the proportion of patients identified with bone mineral testing to 50 %, 383 patients started treatment in the FLS.

Since my numbers were high my doc ordered a calcium scoring test which shows some mild calcium increase in my lower depending artery which is not normal for a female of my age and health.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

Another school profiled is the Denver School of Science and Technology, which enrolls a mostly - minority, 47 percent low - income student population and has achieved «national renown» for its results, including the second - highest longitudinal growth rate in student test scores statewide.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

Riley says this is part of the reason the Edwards School, which struggled for years with low test scores, switched from their traditional afterschool approach to the expanded day.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

When it comes to math, the problem may be worse — many students experience math anxiety, low self - confidence, or overwhelming amounts of academic pressure, which can disrupt learning, leading to lower grades and test scores.

Sommers notes that in intelligence tests, the normal distribution for boys spreads out wider at the tails than for girls — more scores at very high and very low levels, which is consistent with what President Summers was suggesting.

In fact, some Los Angeles students saw their test scores fall as a result of the 1996 statewide program, which sought to lower class sizes in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

Low MCAS Scores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging sScores Launch Dispute Over Test's Value and Use (Bay State Banner) Paul Reville weighs in on the results from a new MCAS, which debuted last spring in Massachusetts and resulted in plunging scoresscores.

Finally, we evaluate the degree to which differences in relative test score performance (or growth) of high - SES versus low - SES students are largely occurring within school districts or across school districts.

It's also worth noting that there are many additional ways to measure student outcomes and success beyond test scores, which most parents rank low when it comes to choosing schools for their children.

For too many policymakers, student achievement is defined solely by test scores in reading and math, which has led in turn to the disappearance of the arts, particularly in low - performing schools.

In the detailed analysis, we are primarily interested in two main outcome measures: the percentage of children reaching the expected standard for their age in English, («level 4» which takes account of tests in reading, writing, and spelling) and the percentile score in the reading test (as low standards in reading were of particular concern).

Students also scored lower on the reading test but the amount by which they were lower was not statistically significant.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

These patterns are consistent with the findings of a 1997 study by Dominic Brewer and Dan Goldhaber, which found that more in - class problem solving for American 10th - grade students in math is related to lower test scores on a standardized test.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.

[ix] In other words, students in some middle schools in which academic performance (as measured by ELA test scores) is high report relatively low social - emotional skills, and vice versa.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

And now with multiple measures, understanding which schools have low performance is not as straightforward as when we were only measuring test scores, as uninformative as they may have been.

- The school attended - School year - Minority status - Eligibility for free or reduced - cost lunch (a proxy for low socioeconomic status)- Date of birth - Assigned teacher - English language proficiency - Testing exemption status - Test scores on the annual TAAS exam in each year in which the student was enrolled in a Texas school

In their unpublished research, which is now being peer - reviewed, Waddington and Berends studied the standardized test scores of low - income, public school students (grades 3 - 8) who qualified for free or reduced - price lunch and who used a voucher to switch to a private school.

Low test scores — which are most closely related to economic status — provide corporate reformers with the excuse to close schools.

Some districts which had curriculum dedicated to the Common Core and teachers who taught to it diligently had low test scores, and some districts that just about ignored the Common Core in curriculum and practice had good scores.

Patricia Gandara, an educational psychologist at UCLA, said students in bilingual programs often go to schools with higher concentrations of poverty, which is linked to lower test scores.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

International test scores put our math and reading proficiency around thirtieth in the world, which points to low future growth.

The school, which had been kindergarten through eighth grade, added grades nine and 10 in 2012, and test scores from the new students were low enough to pull down the school's rating from an A to a C on an A-to-F scale.

Although Joyner's Smarter Balanced scores were low, Castellanos said they represented growth compared to the school's last performance on the California Standards Test, which was discontinued in 2014.

Now schools labeled as «failing» because of low test scores may become charter schools, in which they could be taken over by business people in an effort to improve test scores.

If you look at the page to which I linked, you'll see that elementary teacher candidates, in particular, had very low achievement test scores.

Middle School, said some instructors might be more reluctant to take on low - income minority students if they are evaluated on test scores, which do not account for poverty and other factors teachers can not control but that are known to affect learning.

Rather, it is states which have historically tested least and are less likely to attach high - stakes to their tests that generally score highest on NAEP [see Neill, Civil Rights], have lower dropout rates [Clark], and send more students on to college [see article on evaluation of state college systems, Education Week 1/6/00].

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincescores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sinceScores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

The weak math performance echoed the results of a second national exam, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), on which 4th and 8th graders also posted lower math scores on the 2015 test.