Sentences with phrase «teacher testing tell»

Dan Goldhaber, «Everyone's Doing It, But What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness?»

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The teachers were told that these students were all potential geniuses based on their IQ tests.

Did a teacher ever tell you to make sure you were active in the afternoon to help you ace your next test?

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.

The teacher will be able to tell you your child's reading level, discuss any problem areas indicated by those tests, and offer help.

A substitute teacher at School 14 told four fifth - graders to change the answers on a recent state test, Troy City School District officials confirmed.

«The test scores don't always tell the true measure of a teacher's efforts.»

We're being told Gov. Andrew Cuomo is prepared to contradict himself and reverse course on tying public school teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Fred LeBrun on Cuomo's reported about face on linking test results with teacher evaluations: «If what we're being told is true, this reversal by the governor would be a long overdue triumph of common sense over ideological idiocy.

«We're telling kids that the tests don't matter; we're now going to not count it against the teachers, which is the right thing to do, but... why are we continuing with tests that are this problematic?»

Finch tells X101 News, that this year, Assembly Democrats voted with Republicans to de-emphasize the role of tests in teacher performance.

The Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization told the board parents shouldn't be punished for opting - out of tests for their children.

A senior official in the state told the BBC that more tests would also be carried out in the coming weeks for secondary school teachers to determine their suitability.

TROY — A substitute teacher at School 14 told four fifth - graders to change the answers on a recent state test, Troy City School District officials confirmed Tuesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, told state legislators today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for evaluating teachers relies too much on testing students for a static standard.

Cuomo has told lawmakers that they must accept education policy changes — including adding authorization for 100 new charter schools and making teacher evaluations more dependent on standardized tests — in order for him to agree to give the state's schools more money.

Added Crowther, «There wasn't a teacher breathing down students» necks telling them they had to learn this for a test.

I've had classroom teachers tell me they see their students using «take 5 breath» before exams, and studies have proven schools with yoga see test scores go up.

And it's like the first boy who told me we should just be friends out on the blacktop at recess, the girls who put their lunch boxes on the cafeteria benches so I couldn't sit down, the F in red ink on my spelling test, the words «I want a girl to spend my life with and you're just not her,» the music teacher who mocked me for getting too nervous to sing the right notes, the nasty comment from a stranger, and the job interviewer who doesn't even pretend to be interested all over again.

I totally feel like I just sounded like a teacher giving her class a quiz on a Where's Waldo book or a Psychologist giving an IQ test, can you tell me the difference in these two photos?

The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

The idea, Nagarajan told me, is for teachers to «go deep on one or two standards» by dissecting four or five test questions each at the data meeting.

Recently, a veteran teacher told me that she was tired of teaching testing.

When teachers tell their students before a lesson that they will need to prepare to teach what they learn, pupils tend to work harder to understand the material, search for the main points, organize and apply knowledge more effectively, and score higher on tests.

One research finding that it highlighted is that when teachers and parents tell girls their intelligence can expand with experience and learning, they do better on math tests and are more likely to say they want to continue...

The Australian Education Union's federal president Correna Haythorpe told ABC News teachers had raised concerns about the online test.

«Initially the structure of the building was just a very robust concrete shell which was intended to stand the test of time,» Ben Vielle tells Teacher.

One of the study's authors, Professor Jenny Gore, Director of the University of Newcastle's teachers and teaching research centre, told Fairfax Media the way primary school tests are handled could have long - term impacts on students» aspirations.

A teacher tells you he «boosted» his students» high - stakes tests» scores because his kids needed to show a certain level of improvement or he would face sanctions.

Students did well on a test at the end of the unit and third graders tell their teachers that they have a much better understanding of economics.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

However, it would be a waste not to use the transition year to tell students, teachers and parents where they stand relative to the new standards, and that means giving all students the opportunity to participate in the test, scoring all their tests and providing them with a score.

They can pass the standardized tests with their eyes closed, so we tell high - ability kids that their job is to sit still and stay quiet while the teacher focuses on low - achievers.

State Test Scores Flat, City's Rise After Another Year of Tougher Exams WNYC, August 8, 2011» «Teachers have been telling us that they've been taking shortcuts in surveys for more than 20 years,» said Dan Koretz, a Harvard education professor who's been studying state exams.»

He tells the story of a would - be Yalie with good grades and test scores but whose personal essay described a conversation with a teacher she admired — a conversation too important and stimulating to interrupt.

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One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

The letter says that the district has never evaluated the teachers using student test scores, and, as a consequence, has never told teachers where they stood and counseled them on how to improve in terms of increasing their students» learning — all of which are required by the law.

«One of the greatest reasons new teachers leave the profession is lack of support and assistance in dealing with the many frustrations they face,» John Holloway, director of the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) Teacher Quality Initiative, tells Education World.

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»

Policy makers revere the seeming objectivity of these tests, but the truth is that the exams are not adept at determining either how well teachers have taught or students have learned — and test makers themselves will tell you so.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham told ABC News the compulsory tests would not be «confronting», but an assessment that allows parents, teachers and students to ascertain if early intervention is required.

The pressure to perform on standardized assessments equates learning and schooling with testing, mastery, and memorization.However, as most teachers, parents, and students can tell you, learning is much more of an organic, constructive process.

As a rookie high school history teacher, with the best of intentions I often told my students that a single upcoming test or assignment would significantly impact their overall grades.

While it's certainly true that test scores can tell us something important about a teacher, what is troubling for the test - score types is that it looks like (1) non-cognitive scores are better predictors of later life success (completing high school, taking the SAT, and going to college) and (2) that it is not the same set of teachers that is good at raising both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.

And it should be no surprise that, as we have these confusions on assessment types, that the state teachers» union is running TV spots on how horrible testing is and how there is nothing a test can tell a parent that a teacher can't already relay.

Back at home, tell your kid you want to test the teacher estimate (s), so you want your kid to complete all homework each night for one week without any discussion (other than homework help, of course), any «breaks,» or any delays.

Thus, we have already tested it in more than 45 schools in Spain, with very good results from the point of view of usability and opinion of the teachers and students, who say that these games are useful and effective in reinforcing what they are learning in class, and students are having a great time, that is, that when it comes the time when they are told «and now let's play Little», they think it's great because they remember it as something playful in the process of classroom learning.»

For those students who will not meet goals, it tells teachers how much more time they will need in the lab in order to achieve the goal by the March test date.

When well - loved teachers at popular suburban schools tell parents, fairly or not, that testing undermines their work and keeps them awake at night worrying about their jobs, reformers can not expect those parents to sit idly by.