Iowa ranks high in ACT scores, but achievement gap is widening. Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, IA) (9/28/2006)
...representatives said Iowa students are outperforming...states, but an academic achievement gap is growing internally. On average, Iowa students earned a 21...averaged 20.6. In Iowa, African-American students averaged the lowest test scores ...
Waterloo, Iowa, schools accept John Deere donation for achievement upgrades. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (8/24/2004)
...Aug. 24--WATERLOO, Iowa -- The Board of Education...Works to help close the achievement gap faced by African...Approved a $3,000 Iowa Arts Council Arts Partners...The report includes test scores and other data required by the Iowa Department ...
Performance Pay for Teachers Catches On; Wisconsin, Iowa, Other States Consider Plans Based on Student Achievement The Washington Post (2/26/2000)
...governors of Wisconsin and Iowa proposed "pay-for...Thompson's "Award for Achievement" plan, a school would...improvement is made in test scores, attendance and...would have to improve test scores for all students...administer achievement ...
Scores may not be what you think; For many, student achievement- test results are a simple way to assess school quality. But some say scores don't mean as much as parents and taxpayers believe they do.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (10/10/1996)
...School districts use achievement tests to check whether...Colleges use entrance tests to check whether...to live based on test scores. Divorced...use one achievement test and be held accountable...senior author of the ...
ACHIEVEMENT TEST CRITICIZED, SAID TO SHOW FALSE GAINS The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/23/1988)
...grade to grade. School tests showed them only slightly...fraudulent testing. We need a test that is accurate and...commercially available tests." Included in the study were the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Stanford Achievement ...
IOWA'S WAKE-UP CALL REMARKS BY U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN TO THE IOWA EDUCATION SUMMIT. States News Service (7/25/2011)
...and as recently as 1992--Iowa students either led the nation in student achievement or were right at the top of the pack. The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills began, not surprisingly, right here in Iowa. So did the ACT assessment...
School achievement test results faulted by study Chicago Sun-Times (11/27/1987)
...Co.; the Stanford Achievement Test and Metropolitan Achievement Test, by Harcourt Brace...hours of additional tests. Nonetheless, Alfred...director of the test division at Riverside...said norms on the Iowa ...
ART OUTCOMES: IVF KIDS ARE HEALTHY, SMART AND WELL-BEHAVED, ALTHOUGH MULTIPLE GESTATION LEADS TO LOWER SCORES ON IOWA TEST OF BASIC SKILLS. States News Service (10/20/2009)
...In the largest report on achievement test performance of IVF-conceived...researchers from the University of Iowa used scores from the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) to...database at the University of Iowa Hospital Center ...
WILL NEW STATE TESTS MEET VIRGINIA'S NEEDS? THEY'RE PART OF A NEW INITIATIVE TO GUAGE ACHIEVEMENT AND LEARNING.(FRONT) The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) (4/1/1997)
...11 will take the tests as part of a new initiative to measure achievement and learning. One test will compare Virginia...11 will take this test, the Stanford Achievement Test Series, Ninth Edition...the long-used ...
Md. Test Supplants National Measures The Washington Post (11/10/2005)
...the standard measured by the Stanford Achievement Test, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and other norm-referenced tests -- is no longer the chief concern of...the decades, the tests included the Iowa ...
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