Sentence examples for break down test from inspiring English sources
In New York City, Mr. Levy has directed his staff to break down test score data into numerous categories so as to better determine which students need the most help.
The law requires schools to break down test scores by race, poverty, gender, disability and ethnicity, and judges them by the progress of each group, rather than on an average score of all students.
In Maine, school report cards, available on the state's Web site, do not break down test scores for groups like disabled students or report the percentage that took the exams.
Other states are making different statistical moves, but all would ease the rigor of the federal law, which says that schools must break down test scores for every subgroup above a certain size -- by race, poverty, ethnicity, disability and English-learners -- and that each group must make adequate progress on annual tests.
These broke down in February.
Some education experts say they worry, however, that as more students seek special accommodations, the whole notion of standardized testing may break down.
Well, every now and then the thing I was testing would break down and I'd have to call in Peter.
During a school presentation last week, Horrell reportedly laid out the results of the Germantown High's Tennessee state report card, which breaks down standardized test scores by race and income.
In some cases, they blame a quirk that requires schools to break down their test results into "subgroups", based on factors like race and sex and to show progress in every category.
