Sentences with phrase «about standardized tests raised»

An article in the Sunday Review highlights some of the concerns about standardized tests raised by minority parents, students, and educators.

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The results of this new research demonstrate that the potential benefits of increased teacher diversity extend well beyond standardized test scores, raising important questions about lost opportunities caused by the underrepresentation of minority teachers in America today.

I share the concerns raised by many of my friends at the Coalition of Essential Schools that standardized tests do not test many of the things we care about.

Recently concerns have also been raised about the amount of time students now spend taking standardized tests.

They also raise important questions about the government's reliance on standardized test results as a guide for regulating the options available to families.

In an op - ed published by US News and World Report, Sara Mead of Bellwether Education Partners examined standardized testing under ESSA, raising questions about whether waiting until third grade to gauge performance is too late to catch under - performing students.

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.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Each year educators raise concerns about the limitations of standardized testing and the downside of «teaching to the test» while policymakers and commentators discuss and pontificate about the «shockingly poor results.»

Although value - added is one of the more advanced statistical approaches, researchers have raised concerns about its reliability, as well as potential unintended consequences, such as demoralizing teachers and placing greater emphasis on standardized tests.

Concerns about whether students have to take too many standardized tests have been raised for years.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Updatest scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly UpdaTest Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).