Sentences with phrase «about the test score part»

«My members don't know about the test score part, and I think that will kill them.

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Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

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.»

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

The president of the Toms River Education Association — one of the largest locals ion the state, with 3,200 members said afterward that she remained worried about the most contentious part of the new process: the use of test scores in judging any of her members.

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement about using students» academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.

In Part One of a two - part interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this yPart One of a two - part interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this ypart interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this year.

For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday, January 27, 2013 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 Local Desk 1 inches; 40 words Type of Material: Correction Teacher evaluations: The caption for a photo that accompanied an article in the Jan. 20 California section about members of United Teachers Los Angeles approving the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations misspelled Lisa Karahalios» name as Karahahlios.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Introduction, Brief Overview of Findings, The Parent Survey, Questionnaire, Interviews, Academic Test Scores and Accountability, Document Review, Parent Survey, Introduction, Statistical Analyses, Quality of the curriculum, Structure of the program, Negative public school experiences, Cost, Family values, Best Part about Participation, Quality curriculum, Flexibility, Teacher support, Pacing, Ready to use, Improvement, Additional Comments.

Back on June 3, 2011, she wrote a letter to President Obama, detailing her concerns about the emphasis on student test scores as a prominent part of educator evaluation.

The poll also found that Americans are «ambivalent» about comparing test scores in their local schools with other districts, states and nations — part of the original intent of accountability test scores under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The discourse about teachers in the past year in this state, on the part of the governor and state commissioner, along with the State Board of Education, has been an insult to the work teachers and staff do each day, as well as to the children — who come from many diverse backgrounds and thus can not be treated like cogs, «assets» (Michele Rhee's rhetoric), nor should they be sorted according to test scores.

One new link is to a video featuring Ritz speaking into the camera about evaluation and dropping another bombshell — that her staff plans to revise Bennett - created rules that would have assigned teachers ratings of 1 through 4 based on the ISTEP test score growth of their students that districts could use as part of their evaluations.

For the most part, evaluators have been more forgiving than the test scores, raising concerns about the accuracy and reliability of both measures.

The recent teacher strike in Chicago was due in part to a contract dispute about the extent to which student test scores should be used to rate a teacher's performance.

In a video released on the network's website, Ravitch says families should opt out of state - mandated high - stakes testing in part because the scores provide «no useful information» about the abilities of individual students and are unfairly used to evaluate educators.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public - school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores...

The pilots were also the first test case of the state's use of student test scores as part of the ratings for teachers whose students take the state's language arts and math tests, roughly about a sixth of the total.

Excerpts from the discussion about using student test scores and other measures as part of the evaluation will follow tomorrow:

A Chrysler Corp. minivan has achieved the best scores ever recorded for a van in the federal government's 13 - year - old crash test program, thanks in part to its driver's side air bag.The scores, recorded from instrumented test dummies aboard a Dodge Caravan run headlong into a concrete wall, also were better than those of most passenger cars.The 35 - mph test provides a basis for comparing vehicles, although critics point out that it indicates little about a vehicle's ability to protect passengers if it is struck in the side or rear.

Usually when I write a review I'll just add the value for money in the score bar at the bottom and not mention much about it other than in a summary, this games pricing has been set up differently to what we usually see, for example you can buy the full game for about # 30 OR if you're an online multiplayer fanatic and only want to play that part of the game you can buy the Multiplayer version for # 20, now if you've bought the multiplayer and fancy expanding to the full game it will cost you # 15 for the single player being # 5 over the original price, most will think that this is fair, you can get the multiplayer element cheaper and test it out, if you like it you can then grab the campaign, well, this is where it gets dark.