Sentences with phrase «year test scores too»

You'll see the results of daily reinforcement in end - of - year test scores too!

Not exact matches

While up from last year, the scores represent a steep drop from 2009 when the state decided that the tests — and its scoring — had gotten too easy and so recalibrated the scores and began revamping the test itself.

There is always the fear that results will be demanded too soon, and then the program will be discontinued if test scores do not rise in a year or so.

Will results be demanded too quickly, and will the program be discontinued if test scores do not rise in a year or so?

The problem is that such consequences place too much weight on single - year changes in test scores at the school level.

Of course, two years is too short a time to evaluate a Chancellor's impact on student test - score performance, as Ginsburg wants to do.

For years, critics have complained that the law's focus on test scores offers far too narrow a picture for judging school quality.

She cautioned, however, about putting too much stock in one year of test scores and noted that the Highline School District is also doing impressive work in meeting kids where they are academically.

The committee concluded that moves by many states in recent years to require teacher candidates to pass basic - skills tests have failed to improve the quality of students entering the profession because passing scores have been set too low.

This means that scores on the tests will be released to Hardy after Sylvanie Williams's school year ends — too late for teachers to use that data to course - correct.

Critics say that using annual state test scores to rate teachers is too small and narrow a measure and that results fluctuate so much a teacher easily can go from excellent to failure in a year.

In Florida, when far too many kids failed that state's standardized tests this year, their state board of education had to meet in an emergency session and change the scoring system to ensure that students appeared to do better.

Others worry money is being diverted from classrooms to administer and score the tests and that results are released too late to do any good — after the school year has ended.

>> I just wanted to say too, one of the things that we did in the last couple years is we looked at the students who had been suspended, and then we matched their test scores against other students who had not been suspended.

When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.

Although the NJEA didn't get down to specific percentages, the gist of its argument is that the administration is relying too heavily on student test scores, at least in the initial year of the evaluations.

At the same time, the test's administrators and analysts cautioned against reading too much into one snapshot of the data or blaming any particular policy or party, keeping in mind that scores have improved significantly over the years.

A lot of people talk about the value of formative assessment, but Carol Ann Tomlinson points out that, too often, it is reduced to a mechanism for raising end - of - year - test scores when it should be an ongoing exchange between a teacher and his or her students designed to help students grow.

Only four states will take the PARCC exam this spring, and this will be the last year for Illinois, which has bowed to pressure from superintendents statewide who said the tests were too long, the scores too low, and the results too slow to arrive.

The state department of education has emphasized, as it did last year, that teaching to the Common Core will prepare students for the old state tests too — though student scores from last year's TCAP indicate otherwise.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the legislator most credited for the new tenure law, said yesterday in some of her first public comments on the regulations that the administration's plans to base 35 percent of certain teachers» evaluations on state test scores, starting next year, may be too ambitious.

Until this year, they, too, had 5 percent of their evaluations based on overall school standardized test scores and 10 percent based on non-DC CAS tests, This year, the 5 percent is gone and lumped in with the 10 percent, so now 15 percent is based on test scores, though not the DC CAS.

However, reflecting wariness over being judged too soon on tests they've never taken and standards they're just beginning to implement, the Association of California School Administrators and the California School Boards Association asked the State Board of Education to put off setting API base scores using the new tests for another year.