Sentences with phrase «while standardized tests»

While standardized tests may only motivate some students, I do find that the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam is an excellent way to...

While standardized tests provide an effective means of holding schools more accountable for achievement levels, the report says, they «usually do not provide information useful for improving individual or school performance.»

While standardized tests are necessarily limited in scope, well - designed assessments can and do measure skills that are essential components of what we expect schools to impart.

While standardized tests didn't cause the curriculum to narrow, they're a useful reminder that some students have acquired a lot less knowledge than others.

While standardized tests are not fun, they can be useful tools to help keep student learning on track.

While standardized test scores are typically the measure of student learning used by VAM researchers, studies show that test scores are subject to numerous factors that teachers do not control, according to Audrey Amrein and David Berliner (PDF).

While standardized testing isn't going away, we can do more to make the learning journey more exciting and in fact more effective with a culture of high tech, project based learning where learners are immersed in 21st century learning skills from an early age.

While standardized test scores have not gone up significantly because test anxiety is still the order of the day, Principal Perdomo and his faculty are working hard to reduce test anxiety.

Failure rates plummeted while standardized testing measures such as ACT, PLAN, and state writing assessments confirmed high levels of student learning.

While standardized test scores were put in place with the laudable goal of establishing standard expectations across schools, somewhere along the line tests replaced trust in teachers» ability to discern the skills of their own students.

Not exact matches

While Cassin's GRE score was competitive enough to secure her admission to two top business programs — just shy of 700 — she said one thing she wished she had known was how much your standardized test scores follow you, even after the admissions process.

While colleges struggle to find ways to measure 21st century skills, students continue to be judged largely based on GPA and standardized test scores — metrics that we know are often biased and flawed.

Students turn to us because they've become frustrated in large, impersonal institutions, while others seek a richer, more engaging education without the emphasis on standardized testing.

For example, just six Jolly Rancher candies handed out as a classroom reward have almost 6 teaspoons of added sugar, while one Capri Sun juice pouch and five hard peppermint candies given to «boost energy» on standardized testing days contain almost 8 teaspoons.

When students eat school breakfast it can help decrease visits to the school nurse, tardiness, and absences, while improving behavior, attendance, concentration, standardized test scores and more.

While donor human milk undergoes extensive screening and testing to ensure its safety, a first - of - its - kind study by the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, published in the Journal of Human Lactation (JHL), has found a serious lack of standardized data among donor milk banks across North America.

While much of what the book asserts is reassuring — standardized test scores are not determinant; IQ isn't all - important; character can be taught — none of it is easy.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

But while most of the attention went to negotiations about teacher evaluations and standardized tests, new policies also were put in place for dealing with failing schools.

While here, King was asked about the growing debate over the state's standardized tests.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaWhile unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leawhile teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

Cuomo has complained that while two - thirds of students are failing new standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, most teachers are rated very highly under new performance reports.

The «growth score» is a state - produced calculation quantifying students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling factors such as poverty.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

While Forbus and Lovett's system can be used to model general visual problem - solving phenomena, they specifically tested it on Raven's Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal standardized test that measures abstract reasoning.

The researchers observed the volunteers during standardized walking tests to measure the amount of energy the Achilles tendons stored and released while walking.

One study showed increased activity in the visual cortexes of participants (1) while other studies found increased creativity in university professors and students (measured by standardized tests for creativity).

Moreover, while most private schools already administer tests, some schools have a philosophy that eschews standardized testing.

The book's focus on teacher autonomy and creative license is a stiff rebuke to the troubling overemphasis on standardized testing and rote memorization in schools, a perspective that may frustrate some readers — while inspiring many others.

Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller provides specific and practical strategies to address the demands of standardized tests while doing great PBL projects.

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.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

Very likely, the difference is due to the fact that EdNext refers to «academic progress on state tests,» while PDK refers to how well students «perform on standardized test.»

(And while I'm sure we could talk ad nauseum about the ways that standardized tests provoke anxiety and fear, I will leave that conversation for a different post.)

While this might seem obvious, teaching is often the last focus of education — shifted to the side by standardized testing, changing curricula, faculty room politics, overbearing or aloof administrators, and shrinking school budgets.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Attach a Questionnaire to Standardized Tests While seemingly sarcastic in tone, the questions below bring to light only a few of the extenuating circumstances that are not accounted for in test scores.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

While Prof. Greene positions himself as dedicated to scholarly rigor, he falls into his own logical trap when challenging our claims about states without teacher unions having the lowest achievement rate according to the measures favored by the standardized test proponents.

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

While the scores from good standardized tests tell us something about a student, they hardly tell us everything about that student, much less that student's school.

While you wouldn't know it based on the shallow media coverage, many educators consider the new generation of standardized tests to be far superior at assessing student learning than any previous tests.

Conley's report comes at just the right time; while we have heard endlessly about teacher, student, and parent frustration over standardized testing, about what those tests are missing, and how limited they are, the educational community has been too silent about alternatives.

While thinking they were listening to a local FM station to determine what makes a good commerical ~ the DJ gave a shout out ~ congratulating my class and the students at the school where I work for their hard work on Florida's standardized test ~ the FCAT.

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

While some states still judge schools solely based on standardized test scores, these polls reveal that most parents and guardians do not.