Sentences with phrase «with standardized test scores»

I realize that the joint effort of staff members to help these students has to do with standardized test scores — but what about our gifted learners?

The most notable recommendation: Doing away with standardized test scores as part of the application process, according to Today.

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For too long, school reform efforts have focused almost exclusively on «bad teachers,» with billions of federal and private foundation dollars going into iffy schemes to ferrett out lousy teachers with standardized test scores of their children.

Under Ms. Alexander's leadership, Yu Ying has become one of the most sought after schools in the District of Columbia with its standardized test scores in the among the highest in the city.

«One of the chief reasons that children's socioeconomic status is so highly correlated with standardized test scores is that many items on standardized achievement tests really focus on assessing knowledge and / or skills learned outside of schoolâknowledge and / or skills more likely to be learned in some socioeconomic settings than in others.»

(Fla.) Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is driving legislation in Florida that would establish a «return on investment» index comparing education spending with standardized test scores — something supporters say would help school administrators, parents and the public better recognize the most cost effective programs.

SLOs can be used in conjunction with standardized test scores but they do not employ statistical modeling.

murder the ridiculous notion that student achievement is synonymous with standardized test scores,

Within the U.S., how school performance is measured is with standardized test scores meant to indicate student achievement, so whether or not a school is considered to be successful or failing at educating students is based on how students at that school score.

School districts» accountability ratings and reputations became intertwined with standardized test scores.

Continuing, equating academic achievement with standardized test scores may only answer one piece of the puzzle.

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Specifically researchers have found that college grades are correlated more strongly with GPA in high school than with standardized test scores

Edward Franz: Well, the education industry is rapidly transforming with the measurement of student performance — with standardized test scoring, you know, as the big focus.