Sentences with phrase «measure student learning rather»

Measure student learning rather than time.

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Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

Removing seat time from state regulations certainly stands to open up more opportunities for students to move at their own pace, and for educators to measure progress in terms of authentic learning rather than hours and minutes.

So rather than just use other measures to evaluate those teachers — like observations — states encouraged the creation of «student learning objectives» to fill the gap.

«Extensive research shows that... valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness,» have yet to be generated, she says, blithely putting on ignore important work by Thomas Kane, Eric Hanushek, and Raj Chetty and his colleagues, which shows that students learn in any given year somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of a standard deviation more if they have an especially effective teacher rather than a very ineffective one.

Rather than measuring how well students have learned a specific curriculum, PISA examines their ability to apply their learning.

However, it stresses these need to be integrated into the whole - school ethos and student learning activities, rather than a superficial measure.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

Rather than maintaining a system that uses narrow measures of student achievement to sanction poorly performing schools, the push is now to implement next - generation learning goals that encourage higher - order thinking skills.

Standardized tests like the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) are ill equipped to measure students» knowledge, talent, and skills and often take a «snapshot» of students rather than measure learning over time.

How would assessment following these guidelines promote learning for a wide range of students rather than simply measuring it?

«Multimetric accountability systems should use formative assessments, evidence of student learning, and progress toward personal growth objectives to measure student and teacher success rather than rely on standardized test scores as the primary reference point.»

Rather than measuring learning, they measure students» socio - economic and racial backgrounds, much like the eugenicist IQ tests of the past.