Sentences with phrase «teaching to the test causes»

Teaching to the test causes score gains that may not represent actual improvements in learning.

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But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

The damage caused by the pressure to teach to the test will now be added to by pressure to enhance teacher assessment results for league table purposes.

Current approaches to testing and reporting, in fact, unwittingly cause impoverished, not rich and creative, «teaching to the test» items.

That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and...

That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and mandating the use of unproven improvement strategies for poorly performing schools.

It will indeed be a cause to cheer if and when policy - makers start to turn their sights away from the zero - sum game of whose schools are outperforming on ELA and Math tests and towards the ends that chartered schools were supposed to lead us in the first place: teacher empowerment, innovation, entrepreneurism and new models of teaching and learning to name just a few.

The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

Here are 51 easy - to - use, classroom - tested alternatives to the «stand - and - deliver» teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out or drop out.

This over-emphasis has caused many teachers to shift their overall approach to teaching directly to these tests.

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

It was taught that it is not also appropriate to drive slower or higher than the suggested speed as this will normally cause a risk for a rear end collision and failure in a dive test.

Moreover, terrific teaching can actually cause scores to go down, and terrible teaching can cause scores to rise, because the kind of instruction that's aimed at test preparation is very different from the kind that helps kids become critical, curious, creative thinkers.