Sentence examples for testing of pupils from inspiring English sources

Despite all the criticisms of academies, free schools and excessive testing of pupils, schools are unquestionably better places to be than in 1944.

In Scotland, there is no mandatory testing of pupils' literacy and numeracy; this is assessed instead with an annual survey of a sample of children aged between seven and 14.

For many teachers of many subjects that can be determined in part by "before and after" testing of their pupils.

In the future Ed wants even less autonomy for individual schools, even less rigour in the testing of primary pupils, and the further progressive undermining of the academic gold standard – the A-level – and its replacement by softer alternatives.

In recent state fourth-grade reading tests, 82.2percentt of pupils read at or above grade level, and last year, 90.2percentt of fourth graders were at or above grade level in math.

The report, which examined TFA members teaching maths in middle and high schools, found that the improved test scores of pupils were equivalent, on average, to an extra 2.6 months of school.

The report, which looked at TFA members teaching maths in middle and high schools, found that the improved test scores of pupils were equivalent, on average, to an extra 2.6 months of school.The TFA teachers were more likely to be white, male and graduates of "more selective" colleges than the teachers they were measured against.

Surely it would be a better test of the pupils' creativity if they managed to produce something on a shoestring?

Worldwide rankings based on tests of 500,000 pupils in 66 countries show that the UK has "stagnated" since the rankings four years ago.

In the purest test of reasoning, pupils were shown a pendulum and asked how to find out what affects the rate at which it swings.

EDUCATION is flush with data comparisons, from the Programme for International Student Assessment PISAA) run by the OECD, a mainly rich-world think-tank, which ranks 15-year-olds in core subjects every three years, to TIMSS and PIRLS, tests of younger pupils' mathematics, science and reading levels administered by national research institutions.