Sentences with phrase «about test prep»

As an historian, mmmm,... don't we need a Plan B for «don't worry about test prep»??

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- In an «off the bum» test of how much it could hold, it held about 1/4 cup of water after around 3 washes, and after it was fully prepped it was ever so close to 3/4 cup of water

- In an «off the bum» test of how much it could hold, it held about 1/4 cup of water after around 3 washes, and after it was fully prepped about ever so close to a full 1cup of water

In addition to writing about education and parenting issues, she writes mathematics assessment and test prep items.

Asked yesterday about the Success Academy network's extremely high test scores this year, de Blasio replied: «Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep, and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

In the new issue of IAVI Report we wrote about how researchers at the AIDS Vaccine 2010 conference in Atlanta discussed the limited window of opportunity for conducting clinical trials to test partially effective HIV prevention strategies, including HIV vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combination.

An English teacher that I read about, after weeks of essays and test prep, surprised his 12th grade class with a game of kickball out on the blacktop.

Other kids start worrying about college way too early, starting with test - prep tutors in middle school.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Teachers caring about what is bothering students is positively associated with value added just as test prep is.

According to the interpretation in the NYT and LA Times, it would be correct to say «teachers who care about student problems tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who spend a lot of time on test prep.»

Andrew Miller looks at prep for standardized testing as an opportunity to encourage higher order thinking, embed test prep practices, and make informed decisions about engaging the class and reaching individual students.

And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and test prep and reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number of As your student returns with on one test or another.

Everything I know about the slow growing, cumulative nature of language proficiency suggests it is all but impossible to test prep your way to a high score on a third to eighth grade reading test, especially the more challenging Common Core tests.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Professor Daniel Koretz, an expert in school testing, discusses inappropriate test prep in schools and how, unfortunately, there is little parents can do about it.About the Harvard EdCastThe Harvard EdCast is a weekly series of podcasts, available on the...

We also think this will largely address concerns about excessive «teaching to the test» — research suggests that for well - designed assessments, excessive test prep is actually counterproductive while a rigorous curriculum that prioritizes critical thinking is likelier to lead to better student results.

I was concerned about whether test prep and manipulation were responsible for the exceptional gains made by low - graded schools that faced the prospects of voucher competition if their results did not improve.

It's not always comfortable to do so, but if you see something that troubles you — say, lots of time spent on what seems to be boring test prep — talk with the teacher about it.

I'm convinced that state tests are highly imprecise, very limited in what they cover, subject to test - prep and manipulation, unable to capture the diversity of school goals and circumstances, and seldom used to make intelligent decisions about improving schools.

But what about the idea that the Common Core would be different because the tests wouldn't require test prep?

A variety of free and priced test prep materials are available so you can feel confident about taking the assessment.

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Learn about the TOEFL iBT test and test prep tools, and chat with a TOEFL expert.

Of particular interest are the report's points about the variation in state cut scores for licensure tests (like Praxis), the need for smarter recruitment efforts for potential school leaders, and the teacher - prep path taken by Finland.

Any suggestions about how to handle test prep for the reading test?

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their pareTest and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their paretest, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their paretest subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

About 89 percent of teachers who believed they spent an appropriate amount of time on test prep felt it was a «very good» or «good» use of time, while 68 percent of those who thought test prep took too much time said the activities were a «very good» or «good» use of time.

The survey of 400 teachers found that 57 percent thought they spent «too much time» on test prep, while 43 percent said test prep time was «about right» or «too little.»

Forget about the millions of dollars wasted to purchase Common Core compliant computers and Common Core test prep software.

Those who believed test prep time was about right spent half of it on activities they chose, while those who thought they spent too much time on test prep got to choose their own test prep activities about 31 percent of the time.

A 2012 study of 44 states came up with $ 1.7 billion, or about $ 65 per child, but that number leaves out teacher time devoted to test - prep and administration, as well as the money spent on processing, transfer, and reporting.

Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > It's not hard to find a teacher willing to bend your ear about the volume of standardized testing in schools today, and the pressure for «test prep.»

kid speakers (possible topics: what opt out has meant to them, learning in a test - prep - heavy environment, learning in a non-test-prep-heavy environment, attending a school where test score - based closure is imminent, the experience of testing days, how their family found out about opt out, etc)

Obsessive reflection about what happened in school yesterday, last week or last year, coupled with the never ending demands of PLC meetings, standardized testing prep and daily lesson planning can crush even the strongest educational leaders.

In our survey, teachers on average reported spending about 30 percent of their work time on testing - related tasks, including test prep, proctoring, and review of results.

I still refuse because night after night, my 5th grader's English Language Arts homework is still to read and answer multiple - choice questions about poorly - written, often out - of - context non-fiction passages from free test prep sites like ReadWorks.org.

Yes, when the above named vultures, along with Obama, Emanuel, Bloomberg, Christie, Malloy, Duncan and the rest of the clowns, send their kids to a KIPP or AF test prep factory, manned by TFA temps and Stepford test prep drones trained by the Lemov control tactics, then we can talk about «reform» and equal opportunities for all.

It's also possible that when parents talk about schools over-testing their kids, they're referring to their districts «prepping» kids for the state test.

I hope that this critique of the Common Core is part of the 2016 rallying cry for parents to opt their children out of tests on those inadequate standards, a rallying cry for school districts to not design curricula based on the intellectually bankrupt Common Core, and a rallying cry for good teachers everywhere to speak up about what learning really is and to make sure that real learning, not test prep, is what they foster in their classrooms.

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And they also noted that any causal claim about the relative effectiveness of test prep would require some effort to address the endogeneity of which teachers engage in more test prep.

As I told my children when they complained about test - prep in the Tampa, Florida, public schools, take the label «FCAT prep» off the top of a page and ask whether what you're doing is good regardless of the label.

New survey data suggest these impressions about over-testing and test prep are more than just anecdotal: They are the norm for the majority of public school teachers.

It's not hard to find a teacher willing to bend your ear about the volume of standardized testing in schools today, and the pressure for «test prep.»

After talking about ways to ramp up the studying for tests to alleviate test anxiety, we moved on to his social studies where he worked through a sheet to prep him for a DBQ assignment.»

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

When I think about doing all that tracking with paper assessments, I end up imagining my whole classroom culture getting consumed by endless skills tests (and my energy being consumed by grading rather than lesson prep).

When you think about research on test prep, what examples come to mind?

(I knew at the time that many teachers were labeling ordinary good instruction as test - prep to address parent pressures about test performance.)