Sentences with phrase «wide academic testing»

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Contracting also enables a district to assign schools with particular academic challenges - say, the lowest test scores - to a private manager, while devoting its energies to district - wide improvements.

Though tests (especially standardized tests) may be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word assessment, comprehensive assessment encompasses a wide range of methods for evaluating a child's social and emotional and academic abilities.

Schools used the widest range and types of data to inform these decisions, including results on standardized testing, academic and social history, and teacher observations.

Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

Recent K - 12 test results reveal a sobering trend: despite decades of reform, academic achievement gaps (and their resultant opportunity gaps) are wider than ever across the Bay Area.

Under the new guidelines from LAUSD, assessment of student progress will account for up to 30 % of a teacher's total evaluation, comprised both of individual test scores and school - wide Academic Growth Over Time (or AGT).

I test the Job Corps program theory that emphasizes academic education and vocational training along with a wide array of services for risk reduction.

These are institutions where the average test scores of incoming students indicate that they admit a wide range of students in terms of academic preparation and achievement.

Under both the IASA and NCLB, each state wrote its own academic standards and developed its own tests, leading to wide variation in content and rigor.11 But with the global economy growing increasingly competitive and connected, two - thirds of jobs will require at least some college training by 2020.12 State leaders, acknowledging this economic reality, began to recognize that schools needed to expect more of students for them to succeed and that these expectations need not be dramatically different among states.13

These impacts are seen school - wide as students with trauma have more discipline referrals and suspensions, are more likely to be retained, have more school absences, and have lower test scores and academic performance.

Shael Polakow - Suransky, chief academic officer of the city's Department of Education, said the assessments were designed to be more rigorous and wide - ranging than traditional standardized tests.

Despite a wide range of reforms — based mostly around «academic rigor, discipline, and the value of test scores» (Sajnani et al. 2014, 207)-- the gap in test scores, graduation rates, and college acceptances persists between children in poverty and not in poverty (McAlister 1998, 69).

This offers postgraduate students and scholars the chance to field test and peer - review their research, and to network and engage with a wider community of academics and specialists.

So we double the budget of key agencies, including the National Science Foundation, a primary source of funding for academic research; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which supports a wide range of pursuits from improving health information technology to measuring carbon pollution, from — from testing «smart grid» designs to developing advanced manufacturing processes.

Mind you that works both ways and academics have a duty to road test their ideas before floating them into the wider blogosphere.

Adult Nurse Practitioner — Duties & Responsibilities Provide exceptional patient care and medical team support across multiple medical specialties Currently completing clinical and academic work toward a master of science in nursing Utilize strong background in biology, chemistry and mathematics Maintain working knowledge of current medical technology, procedures, and standards of care Proven ability to remain calm and levelheaded in high pressure situations Direct therapeutic, educational, and recreational activities for eight developmentally disabled adults Responsible for patient health, safety, and attainment of therapy goals Train and supervise medical lab personnel ensuring efficient and professional operations Offer guidance and support to junior lab technicians and medical technologists Perform a wide variety of daily testing utilizing machines such as AXSYM — Hitachi RA 1000 CX 7 Responsible for preventative maintenance on machines by running calibrations and controls Successfully complete monthly state proficiency tests for therapeutic drug, blood, and urine chemistries Prioritize stat specimens for immediate reporting Maintain direct contact with clients to resolve problems regarding appropriate tests and specimens Oversee confidential patient information, customer service, phones, and other administrative functions as needed Perform all duties in a positive, professional, and courteous manner

Work included: a large growth in library work; establishment of a semi-autonomous test division; conferences of test users; research into test theory; Australia - wide curriculum survey; university study to determine predictions of academic success; and the beginning of studies into adolescence and unemployment.