Sentences with phrase «about standardized tests because»

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Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

The fact is that we use standardized tests because they are relatively inexpensive to administer and score, not because they tell us a great deal about the capacities of individual students.

Another group read Story Time, a satirical novel about a school obsessed with standardized testing (in one passage, an English teacher is fired for hanging up a Shakespeare poster because Shakespeare isn't on the test).

Tapped in 2012 to lead a turnaround of the failing 652 - student school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.

Those students — there are about 80 of them, according to the district — recently learned that they are not eligible to earn high school credits for those courses because they skipped the standardized test.

Because classroom teachers can effectively use all available assessment methods, including the more labor - intensive methods of performance assessment and personal communication, they can provide information about student progress not typically available from student information systems or standardized test results.

The amended platform language encourages parents to opt out of standardized tests, something black and brown urban families rarely choose to do and overwhelmingly oppose, precisely because they want real data about whether or not their children are learning.

Yet when compared with this year's ISTEP +, Wyoming's 2010 PAWS experience raises many of the same questions about the future of online standardized testing — in part, because the problems students experienced were the same.

Much of the discussion about the use of student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers has centered on how unfair the «value - added» method is to teachers because it is unreliable and can — and does — label effective teachers as ineffective too often.

«People are happy about that because it means students won't have to take more standardized tests, and it opens doors for students who thought they'd never be college bound because they wouldn't be able to pass the SAT.

Partisans for the education reform environment from 2010 forward will argue that the standardized test based assessment system is indispensable because it dispenses with the «lies» about what students are actually learning.

But they have expressed reservations about value - added analysis, saying it is unreliable because it depends on flawed standardized test results.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»