Sentences with phrase «about standardized testing when»

Jane Baton, who identified herself as a local algebra teacher, said she was concerned about standardized testing when it came to students» math aptitude, and said rigidity in the system is not good for students.

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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.

«Testing itself is not the issue,» she said, when asked about the controversy over increased standardized tTesting itself is not the issue,» she said, when asked about the controversy over increased standardized testingtesting.

«When the standardized tests begin to test thinking, I'll care about the test scores... but it's not what we want to be doing for kids.

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.

«If you go back 40 to 50 years ago to the time when standardized testing was becoming very common in America's schools, the people who designed these tests were adamant about their appropriate use.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

«Our entire technology has only been in place since last spring, so it's early to look for changes on standardized tests,» Grignano said when asked about student scores.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized teWhen you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tewhen you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

Districts are great at letting parents know when and how students will participate in standardized tests, but the only way to know about what's happening in the classroom is to talk with your child's teacher.

When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing — cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often points to a duo of «next - generation assessments» funded by federal money.

Please visit the standardized testing page of the CPA website for more information about which students will take which tests, and review the school calendar to see when each class will be testing.

Yet when compared with this year's ISTEP +, Wyoming's 2010 PAWS experience raises many of the same questions about the future of online standardized testing — in part, because the problems students experienced were the same.

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

will recall that over the past year I have written numerous pieces about Connecticut's charter schools and how they are «creaming off the best students» so that they can make it appear that they do a better job when it comes to getting standardized test scores up.

Arne Duncan, when he was Secretary of Education, spoke about the achievement of South Korean students, as measured by standardized tests, and advocated that the United States follow the South Korean approach to education so that our students can achieve as the South Korean students do on those standardized tests.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

In response to the growing public concern about the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the inappropriate and unfair use of standardized test scores when evaluating Connecticut's public school teachers, a growing number of state representatives and state senators are stepping forward and introducing legislation that would stop, or at least slow down, the damaging Corporate Education Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in Connecticut.

When thinking about school quality, many people tend to gravitate to a single measure: results on standardized tests.

What about the question that proved the pitfall of standardized testing when it asked urban, minority students to respond to a question about a «deck» when it turns out that not a single student knew what a «deck» was, although all knew that the porch was the thing that is attached to nearly every house in Bridgeport.