Sentences with phrase «account student performance on 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.

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Student performance on standardized tests could soon account for up to half of a teacher's evaluation in New York State.

Standardized test results don't take into account how factors outside of a teacher's control impact student performance on the day the test is taken; these include factors such as whether or not the student slept and ate well prior to the test, social and emotional occurrences (e.g., student's parents are going through a divorce, there is a serious illness in the family, student had an argument with a best friend just before the class in which the test is given, student doesn't feel well that day).

Under teacher evaluation reforms, as of 2015, all but eight states have committed to using an objective measure of student achievement — such as performance on standardized assessments — as a part of teacher and principal evaluation systems.40 However, given the challenges of fairly incorporating student test performance in evaluations, all states and districts engaged in these reforms must account for factors like the variation in student background and other external influences on performance.

He found significant variability in LAUSD teacher quality, as demonstrated by student performance on standardized tests in reading and math, and he concluded that differences between «high - performing» and «low - performing» teachers accounted for differences in student performance.

However, an over-reliance on student standardized test scores for evaluating teacher and principal performance does not take into account improved student progress in light of challenging circumstances that confront students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.