Sentences with phrase «worry about test scores»

«If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less,» says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction.

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If you want to test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balances

While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70 percent of incoming kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.

It turns out that focusing on your worries by writing about them before a test can boost your scores, according to a different paper published in January in Science.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

She worries that all the anxiety about bad test scores will end up hurting schools, not helping them.

While policy elites fret about international test scores, college - and career - ready standards, and STEM, parents worry about bullying, what's on the lunch menu, the bus schedule, and the dress code.

Even Miller, who advocated accountability before it was cool, worries about states» being able to pay to fix the problems the test scores highlight.

The president of the Toms River Education Association — one of the largest locals ion the state, with 3,200 members said afterward that she remained worried about the most contentious part of the new process: the use of test scores in judging any of her members.

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

Since the 3 - 8 grade SOL tests mean nothing in either the short or long term, we did not prepare our kids or even worry about their scores.

This includes one where I consider my philosophical shift from not worrying about my student's standardized test scores to deciding that I need to play the high stakes testing game and focus on preparing my students for their standardized tests.

Even so, does she worry about being judged on test scores, too the eventual goal of the state's evaluation system.

In addition to questions about whether there's evidence that TeacherMatch does what its creators say it does, he worries about how it would be scored and whether the system overemphasizes student test scores.

I worry about people just focusing on that number and getting that number up, when it's not about moving the needle on the test score.

If value - added scores from different tests lead to different conclusions about a teacher, then we may worry that value - added from any single test provides an incomplete picture of a teacher's effectiveness, and that using it to make decisions about teachers may be inefficient or, for some teachers, unfair.

And U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is on the defensive, backtracking for «clumsy phrasing» that appeared to criticize parents who worry about their children's lower test scores.

Teachers and administrators don't have to worry as much about student test scores as their public school counterparts do, because DoDEA is exempt from No Child Left Behind.

If you want to test my theory, have your spouse, or parent add you as an A.U. on a couple of their cards without even giving you the physical card (to avoid risk if they worry about abuse) watch your scores go through the statosphere if the balances are low because it increases your presumed available amount of credit and expands your ratio of credit vs balances

OnePlus 3 comes with Snapdragon 820 + 6 GB RAM, so you don't have to worry about the performance, With some benchmark test, the device score higher than most of the high - end phone.

For those of us that worried about Samsung's decision, DxOMark's testing scored it as the one of best mobile camera currently available.

If you'd like to get the PTCB test score you deserve, to quit worrying about whether your score on the PTCB test is «good enough,» and to beat the test taking game so you can become a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT), then this might be the most important message you read this year.