The survey found that home-schooled children scored well above the national median on standardized tests.
Investigations into the remarkable improvements on standardized tests were first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
Student work will comprise 45% of evaluations, with at least 22.5% from standardized tests.
Data from two states, Indiana and Iowa, showed Amish students outperforming the state average in standardized tests.
States including New York and New Jersey often check standardized tests for suspicious patterns of erasure marks.
Researchers tested participants for their cognitive abilities by administering standardized tests of memory, information processing, and thought organization.
And a lot of parents care about things beyond standardized tests, and this can't tell them about that.
Some educators said that as long as standardized tests remained the sole criteria for admissions, little would change.
So what we want to do is not completely eliminate standardized tests -- there's a role for standardized tests.
Monty Neill co-directs the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, a group that opposes many standardized tests.
This can only tell them how good a teacher is at raising or lowering a student's performance on standardized tests.
An afterschool program, for example, can rack up good points for keeping down costs and improving student performance on standardized tests.
The vast majority of districts reached deals that set up four-tiered rating systems based in part on student scores on standardized tests.
Sometimes, though, I think that we have become a nation of grifters and that standardized tests are part of the reason why.
Last year a Broward math teacher could not understand why his brightest eighth-grade students were scoring merely average on their Stanford standardized tests.
The vast majority reached deals with their unions to create a four-tiered rating system that relies in part on student scores on standardized tests.
Under a complex new system, teachers are given grades that reflect both their ability and the way their students are performing on standardized tests.
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Competition for the limited number of spots has become fierce since the city began using standardized tests as the sole criteria for admission in 2007-08.
Schnakers said that using standardized tests could reduce incidents of misdiagnosis.
Against this realistic backdrop, we must, instead, have the courage to demand the highest possible standards in the classroom, in after-school programs, and on standardized tests.
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Jason Glass, Director of the Department of Education in Iowa, has recently proposed (within the last month) that students in Iowa need to take MORE standardized tests.
An academic pioneer of sorts, Kaplan was the first company to make a business out of tutoring students for standardized tests like the SAT, LSAT and GRE.
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Most candidates repeated talking points that largely were critical of the Bloomberg administration's record, most notably the mayor's emphasis on using standardized tests to judge teachers and schools.
At the same time, some parents may push for an ADHD diagnosis so their child can get extra time to complete standardized tests, even if that diagnosis isn't appropriate.
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For decades, NCS has been known for making the scanners that score standardized tests and being the largest commercial processor of student tests, scoring 39 million tests annually.
Students in teacher Miguel Aguilar's fifth-grade class consistently make gains on standardized tests while next door, fifth graders who pass through teacher John Smith's class each year fall behind.
He says this year the school could have filled its 2, 000-student freshman class three times over with applicants who scored in the top 1% nationally on standardized tests or high school transcripts.
Florida has made similar drastic cuts to public education, and Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is attempting to broaden the Wisconsin voucher program, while allowing voucher schools to opt-out of standardized tests.
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