Sentences with phrase «mastery test program»

Apparently diverting over $ 25 million a year from teaching students to paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test program wasn't enough for Malloy, Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the legislators who supported what can only be called as an exponential growth in the use of standardized testing.

In addition to reversing their position on the SBAC test, the CEA and AFT - CT have been working extremely hard to get the Connecticut General Assembly to pass Senate Bill 380 which would prohibit the state from using the results from the Connecticut's Mastery Testing program in the state's teacher evaluation program — a proposal that Malloy and his education reform allies strongly oppose.

Not exact matches

Programs like No Child Left Behind and Common Core — with their focus on «hard skills» and the mastery of content, both very «carpenter» - like approaches to education — have failed children, and teaching has regressed to an emphasis on test preparation.

For example, Mr. Mislevy pointed to diagnostic systems now used in computer - based programs such as Carnegie Learning and Khan Academy, in which students work through individual topics at their own pace, taking brief tests of their mastery along the way, with feedback delivered to the student and teacher on individual processes or misconceptions that cause the student problems.

The Edgenuity program provides individually paced lessons for which students can «test out» by demonstrating mastery.

Tests in the Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) measure student knowledge and mastery of the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards in multiple subjects, including English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.

When students participating in dual - language programs have been followed across time, the research has shown they score as high (or higher than) typical native English speakers on difficult, national English reading exams, which tests curricular mastery in all subjects combined.

UpSmart ® is a highly adaptive test readiness program designed to help students in grades 6 — 8 demonstrate standards mastery in math and ELA.

In fact, not only did Pryor and Malloy demand that teacher evaluation programs be based on how well students did on the Connecticut Mastery Test but they wanted the test results to count for fifty percent of a teacher's entire evaluatTest but they wanted the test results to count for fifty percent of a teacher's entire evaluattest results to count for fifty percent of a teacher's entire evaluation.

As students demonstrate mastery of basic definitions, the program provides questions that test their understanding of more nuanced usage and peripheral meanings.

The program is interactive and offers embedded mastery tests to assess progress.

No standards - based test fully captures the extent to which quality school library programs contribute to students» mastery of state or national academic standards.