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Search results for "California Standards Test" ...
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"Grading the Teachers"
The LA Times studied schools throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District. Using gain-score analysis, data linking standardized test scores and various evaluation techniques, the Times identified the "most and least effective" teachers and schools in the district. Reporters examined schools ranked high by the API standard, only to find inconsistencies in student performance.
Tags: California Standards Test; API; Los Angeles Unified School District; LAUSD; RAND; California Public Records Act; United Teachers L.A.
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The Teachers Who Cheat
This investigation found that at least 123 public schools in California have admitted to cheating or other testing irregularities over the last three years. One problem with the system is that school districts are supposed to voluntarily report incidents of cheating. The Chronicle's analysis found cheating to be more widespread than state records say.
Tags: Philip Meyer Award; education; teachers; cheating; standardized tests; CAR; statistical analysis
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Small gains on Stanford 9 scores cut across all levels of language ability
Whether large or small, wealthy or poor, predominantly English-proficient or dominated by students who were not fluent, school districts across California fell into a pattern of slight gains in reading and more robust gains in math on the Stanford 9 standardized tests from 1998 to 1999.
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CLAS results no mirror of school status
The Fresno Bee reports that "educators admit they do not know why some schools do better than others (on the California Learning Assessment System tests) after the economic backgrounds of the students is taken into account, as the Bee's analysis did. But they have plenty of theories..."