Sentences with phrase «with standardized achievement tests»

Assessing new teachers with standardized achievement tests is likely to yield many false negatives.

Not exact matches

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

Furthermore, these differences also correlated with one measure of academic achievement — performance on standardized tests.

... In the current study, academic achievement was measured with standardized tests administered in spring 2013, which was concurrent with the time of year when participation in the SBP peaked.

At Brain Balance Achievement Centers, we assess all of these skills with standardized and accepted testing and we quantify them by grade, age, or functional level.

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.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

To the extent the program involves student achievement, it bases awards on «student learning objectives» as «created by individual teachers, with the approval of site - based administrators»; these objectives «will be measured by a combination of existing assessment instruments, and teacher designed tools,» as well as by state standardized tests.

The finding that happiness is positively correlated with GPA is significant, Hinton notes, because GPA provides a broader picture of academic achievement than standardized test scores, encompassing multiple types of abilities and the influence of social dynamics.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Sacks also challenges the supposed objectivity of standardized tests and shows how repeated administration of very similar tests produces test - score increases that may have little to do with real changes in achievement.

With few exceptions, however, the assessments states have chosen to implement because of NCLB are either nationally standardized achievement tests or state - developed standards - based tests — both of which are flawed.

Of these nine options, «improving students» scores on standardized achievement tests» came in last place with 69 percent support (36 percent strongly).

Students who use the voucher to enroll in private schools end up with much lower math achievement than they would have otherwise, losing as much as 13 percentile points on the state standardized test after two years.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

The first was Understanding Today's Educational Testing with Professor Dan Koretz, which opened up the black box that is standardized testing in America and gave me the skill - set to accurately discern what these tests are actually telling us about student achieTesting with Professor Dan Koretz, which opened up the black box that is standardized testing in America and gave me the skill - set to accurately discern what these tests are actually telling us about student achietesting in America and gave me the skill - set to accurately discern what these tests are actually telling us about student achievement.

As someone responsible for students with learning disabilities and for closing the achievement gap, and as a school instructional leader, working toward eliminating standardized tests such as AP's and assessing department based learning outcomes, I am eager to learn more about three aspects of Finnish education:

Findings demonstrate that a standards - based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.

Culbertson is an urban elementary school with an enrollment of just over 600 students, almost all of whom meet state achievement expectations on the grades 3 - 5 standardized tests in reading, science, and mathematics.

The use of standardized tests of academic achievement with students from linguistically - and ethnoculturally - diverse backgrounds may be problematic.

Provide parents with an annual written explanation of the student's progress, including scores on standardized achievement tests

How it works: the state identifies its bottom five percent of schools based on their students» performance on standardized tests and marks them «priority schools,» placing them within the state - controlled Achievement School District with the goal of lifting them up into the state's top 25 percent within five years.

The website offers an overview of performance and detailed information on a range of indicators of school climate and conditions, success in preparing students for college and career opportunities and achievement on standardized tests — all broken down by a dozen student groups, including low - income students, English learners, students with disabilities and other racial and ethnic groups, to highlight disparities in achievement.

Hill, Ball and Brian Rowan find only modest links between measures of the mathematical knowledge that teachers need for teaching and their students» performance on standardized math tests, and the vaunted Measures of Effective Teaching project had to abandon its content knowledge for teaching measures, designed to assess some aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, as they were not associated with student achievement.

It is this confidence along with achievement on essential learning that affects those standardized test scores.

Closing the achievement gap will never happen with standardized tests.

When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing — cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often points to a duo of «next - generation assessments» funded by federal money.

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

You simply can not measure teacher performance or student achievement with a standardized test.

This is important because the research found a link between professional community and higher student scores on standardized math tests.25 In short, the researchers say, «When principals and teachers share leadership, teachers» working relationships with one another are stronger and student achievement is higher.

You write, «I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that the closest thing states have to an objective measure of student achievement [value - added growth scores based on standardized tests] should not be part of the equation.»

One way to compare homeschooled students with peers who attend public schools is to use standardized achievement test scores.

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.

Achievement First is barely better, with their «zero tolerance», their TFA staff, and their standardized test - prep curriculum.

... Standardized tests shine a spotlight on disparities in achievement — whether for students of color or those with special needs — so districts can steer teacher support and dollars wisely, said Taylor Rub, a special education teacher at the Minneapolis charter Bright Water Elementary.

It identifies the 20 U.S. school districts with the smallest white - black and white - Hispanic achievement gaps in 2009 to 2012, based on standardized reading and math tests in elementary and middle schools.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

State board President Michael Kirst and other members have made it clear that they intend to replace the API, which calculates a three - digit number based primarily on a school's or district's standardized test scores, with a new system in which test scores would be just one of many measures of student achievement and school performance.

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Increasing funding in 2002, No Child Left Behind required the adoption of a common set of english and math standards correlated with achievement goals along, measured by standardized testing for federal accountability.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

Two - thirds of states are in the process of adopting new evaluations, and many will include student achievement — usually as measured by standardized tests — along with intensive classroom observations.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national standardized tests; or schools with at least 40 percent of students from disadvantaged backgrounds that raise achievement as measured by state assessments or national standardized tests.

The fact that this charter chain enrolls fewer ELL students, students in poverty, and students with special needs probably does account for any higher achievement as measured by standardized tests.