Sentences with phrase «accountable for standardized tests»

Patrick Riccards, in Education World's Those Held Accountable for Standardized Tests Want Greater Accountability

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It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

In the 2016 PACE / USC Rossier poll of Californians that I led, we asked what schools should be held accountable for; voters rated standardized test results last among the options presented, but 69 percent of them still believed accountability for test results was important.

Charter schools are accountable for their performance on state standardized tests administered each spring.

Of principals surveyed in 2001, 48 percent thought it a «bad idea» to «hold principals accountable for student standardized test scores at the building level.»

While standardized tests provide an effective means of holding schools more accountable for achievement levels, the report says, they «usually do not provide information useful for improving individual or school performance.»

Schools and teachers are being held accountable for proving student achievement in unprecedented ways, including tying teacher salaries to student scores on standardized tests.

It holds principals and teachers and schools accountable for their students» performance — performance to be measured especially in the elementary and middle schools by standardized tests.

And, as I've said before, there is plenty of room to hold Obama accountable for «Race to the Top,» which follows on the same path as No Child Left Behind's era of high - stakes standardized tests.

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted that holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

They also established standardized testing regimes intended to measure whether students were meeting the standards and to hold schools accountable for student achievement.

Parents and educators alike have increasingly lashed out against the high number of standardized tests students must take, the high stakes attached to those test results, and the narrowed curriculum that occurs when schools are held accountable for students» test results in only two or three subjects.

Without being held accountable to the incessant pressure of increasing student performance on a standardized test (see Hew & Brush, 2007; Walker & Shepard, 2011; Zhao, 2007), Mike found technology use to be «definitely less prescriptive, especially for us.»

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

In contrast, 46 percent said that standardized testing improves education by providing teachers with information, allowing parents to see their children's progress, and holding schools accountable for student progress.

Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and senior research advisor to Smarter Balanced, said that the inclusion of the more in - depth questions makes up for some of what was lost after the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which emphasized using standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student learning.

Coleman asserts that, «Standardized testing, albeit imperfect, remains one of the best ways to ensure that teachers, schools, and school districts are held accountable for making sure children are succeeding.»

The law was passed in December 2015 to replace the flawed NCLB, which went into effect in 2002 and dictated the use of English language arts and math standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student achievement.

This language that mandates standardized education held accountable by testing goes on for many pages.

The spokesperson for the Superintendents has repeatedly joined in Malloy's claim that teachers must be held accountable for their students standardized test scores — despite the fact that test scores are driven by wide range of factors far beyond the teachers» control.

The Democratic Assembly Speaker, for example, said that «he's always been troubled that teachers are rated on standardized test scores,» more specifically noting: «I don't think any single teacher that I've talked to would shirk away from being held accountable... [b] ut if they're going to be held accountable, they want to be held accountable for things that... reflect their actual work.»

Both men genuinely believed in the idea of administering annual standardized tests to schoolchildren and holding schools accountable for the results.

Among the contentious issues is whether teachers should be held accountable for their students» performance on standardized tests.

Teachers with students who take standardized math and English tests (usually fewer than half of the total number of teachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach this mark.