They are considerably behind girls in reading and writing, motivation, grades, and standardized test scores.
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Standardized test may not be the reason why but they certainly help entrench a false meritocracy.
Graduating seniors in some New York high schools are being asked to take one more standardized test.
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The remainder can be classroom or other work, and districts have the option of including an additional standardized test.
Our students also are considered highly disengaged, meaning they have low GPAs, low standardized test scores and infrequent attendance.
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The Glasgow Coma Scale is a standardized test that classifies a patient's motor, verbal and eye response on a graded scale.
Meanwhile, standardized test scores and graduation rates remain stuck at mediocre levels nationally, and at worse than abysmal for many urban districts.
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Today, colleges are relying on standardized test scores when making admissions decisions to a far larger degree than they have in years.
Union leaders also rejected the perfectly reasonable demand from the city of Chicago that standardized test scores play a role in evaluating teacher performance.
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In a clinical trial conducted in Russia, dimebon improved the ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease on a standardized test used to measure disease severity.
Standardized test (SAT and ACT) scores are less and less important.
"If my daughter had a standardized test, say, in third (grade), and then eighth, maybe high school, I probably would be OK with that, " Mihelbergel said.
It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
And no drug company has yet perfected a standardized test to determine which particular genetic flaws lie behind an individual patient's cancer, a key prerequisite to targeted therapy.
Now that doesn't mean just a single high-stakes standardized test.
Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 400 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 600.
Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 450 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 650.
Maybe through a combination of factors, such as more complex television, standardized test-taking skills, the internet and other new technologies, we are simply getting better at taking traditional IQ tests.
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Their parents likely had no inkling that their future female offspring would be sitting at a computer taking an English-language standardized test in hopes of embarking on a career in business.
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Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.
There is no substitute of course for electing a challenging curriculum (the most advanced courses for which you qualify), maintaining excellent grades and owning superior standardized test scores, these are the coin of the realm.
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StudentAid.com, which launched earlier this year, asks students for detailed financial information and their GPAs and standardized test scores to create detailed cost estimates for up to 10 universities, based on each college's financial aid award formula.
In terms of teachers, how we measure performance -- as I said before, I have been a critic of measuring performance just by the administering of a single high-stakes standardized test during the year, and then the teacher is judged.
She loves lacrosse, but she also knows that if she works hard enough she will have a college commitment by the end of the tenth grade before taking a single standardized test and with less than two years of high school grades.
The Indiana bill does have rules in place that would require home-schooled and nonaccredited-schooled athletes to pass a standardized test to prove their grade level, and it also says that a student must be in these environments for at least three years before being eligible to try out for a public school team.
So I just -- I just had a meeting with my team this week about this, trying to find ways that we can improve the assessment system so we're still holding schools accountable, we're still holding teachers accountable, but we're not just holding them accountable for a score on a standardized test, but we have a richer way of assessing whether these schools are making progress.
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Fear of failure is rampant among students who have been drilled in standardized-test taking, he says.
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