Word: mcas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miller points to the state's new standardized testing system, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), as one factor that leads parents to favor private schools...
Under Cellucci's plan, schools would be evaluated through aggregate score from their students annual standardized MCAS tests and their annual improvement. The grades won't be B pluses or C minuses, but simple terms like "good," "excellent" and "poor...
Some educational advocates are fuming that schools will be evaluated on a test as new as the MCAS (it was first given in 1998), but Cellucci is happy to take them...
...feeling that the Iowa could be a predictor of how well we do on the MCAS," she said...
...With MCAS to come and room for improvement still remaining, educators emphasized that they don't use standardized tests as the sole measure of the health of a school system...