One factor associated with higher inefficiency is student promotion rates something which does lie within the purview of school administrators and may have important policy implications.
Since the results were not expected until early October, he said, they were never intended to deny any student promotion to the ninth grade.
These are often referred to as high-stakes tests because of the impact that the results can have on student promotion, teacher evaluation, and school funding — and the stakes of the tests in New York this year may be pushed higher still.
In Tennessee, the adjusted results were not distributed to teachers and principals until late summer, too late to play their customary role in many districts' decisions on summer school or student promotion.
Ecobank started a student promotion to fit into the tour in each country Miss Lopes visited.
At the same meeting, Miss Lopes presented winners of the Ecobank student promotion with scholarships and laptops.
Now, we'd really be getting somewhere if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests -- which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS -- for such high-stakes purposes as student promotion, retention and graduation and teacher evaluation.
We need to remember that if you use a Common Core literacy test in a high stakes way -- to determine student promotion and decide whether teachers, schools and principals are failures -- then test prep is going to drive instruction throughout the school, especially in English classes.
Price of a pint: About £3 in Leicester but many city bars and clubs offer student promotions.
Only New York City uses the state's standardized test scores for critical decisions: student promotions, the annual "report cards" that grade city schools, and school closures.
A long-awaited study analyzing the Bloomberg administration's student-promotion policy says that fifth graders who were held back did better in subsequent years, and that specialized instruction for struggling students showed moderate success.
