Sentences with phrase «quality than test scores»

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Even poorly educated parents may have much more information about quality than analysts and regulators sitting in their offices looking at spreadsheets of test scores.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

The problem is that school quality is much broader than just test score results.

The standards are still very much alive; cut scores are dramatically higher than ever; school - level comparability is largely a lost cause; and the quality of what matters the most — the tests and the classroom instruction — remains mostly unknown at present.

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.

When judging school quality, the public gives much more weight to students» job preparation and interpersonal development than to their standardized test scores, the poll shows.

Description: In Minnesota, schools are proactive in preparing families for a perceived testing dip, saying that although scores may be lower, it has more to do with different criteria being observed than a lack of quality education.

They complain that the letter grades oversimplify student success or shortfalls, increase pressure to pay attention to tests, ignore school quality factors other than test scores, and demoralize teachers and parents.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

States can also develop new ways to test through project - based assessments and use student growth, meaning student improvement year to year, rather than just a standalone proficiency score to measure school quality.

A long - running education poll's latest results this September find «Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.»

than meets the eye in these scores, depending on the kind and quality of test.

These societal factors explain poor performance much more (i.e., more variance explained) than any school - level, and as pertinent to this blog, teacher - level factor (e.g., teacher quality as measured by large - scale standardized test scores).

The true measure of student proficiency, educator effectiveness, and school quality must be based on more than just students» test scores on a few state standardized tests.

The varied perspectives and in - depth stories we heard about what made schools work affirmed an essential truth shaping MCIEA's school quality measures work: school quality is more complex and human than any test score or algorithm can capture.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

There is so much more to a well rounded quality education than test scores.....

... We need high - quality assessments that reflect actual learning, and we need to consider indicators of school performance other than simply test scores.»

«Because of their historically low scores, urban schools feel the strongest pressure to focus on narrow test preparation rather than on real educational quality.»

Here the teachers» test - prep lessons earned much lower quality scores than their regular lessons.

By Tunji Adebayo The California State Board of Education just adopted a new accountability system acknowledging that the quality of a school is about more than just test scores.

On the other hand, the fact that Teach for America's teachers did no better than their more experienced colleagues in this latest study points to how difficult it is to improve students» test scores by improving the quality of instruction.

The recognized Schools of Opportunity demonstrate that school quality can be measured by far more than just test scores.

More important than standardized test scores, the quality of the education that students who are educated with a Common Core curriculum have is vastly inferior to the education that other students in affluent suburbs and independent, private schools have.

And research finds high levels of correlation between value - added measures based on test scores and high - quality, observation - based evaluation methodologies that focus specifically on instructional practice rather than outcomes.

Like the small schools we studied, we believe that the quality and depth of the work students produce tell more about their learning than test scores do.

In the US, variations in school quality seem to explain no more than 33 % of the discrepancies in test score performance; this number, which has been around since 1966, considers the influence of a student's classmates to be a school - based factor (it arguably isn't) and thus seems to be a conservative upper bound.

Test - score value - added models have become very popular metrics to determine school quality, but they focus solely on how students perform while they attend the school being evaluated, rather than how

The California State Board of Education just adopted a new accountability system acknowledging that the quality of a school is about more than just test scores.

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