Sentences with phrase «care about standardized tests»

I thought of... Continue reading Paging Ernestine: Long Island Opt - Outers Don't Care About Standardized Tests Because They Don't Have To.

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But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

«When the standardized tests begin to test thinking, I'll care about the test scores... but it's not what we want to be doing for kids.

Although these standardized tests have improved over time, the focus on them still narrows the outcomes that we care about improving.

I share the concerns raised by many of my friends at the Coalition of Essential Schools that standardized tests do not test many of the things we care about.

In other words, whatever the limitations of standardized tests may be, test - based value - added scores do, in fact, provide valuable information about the things most people care most about.

Standardized tests are blunt instruments that fail to reflect the full measure of what people most care about.

Caring about your learning makes the difference between learning for the sake of a standardized test and learning in order to become wiser.