Sentences with phrase «accurate measure of school quality»

Given that we have difficulty agreeing on learning targets, is it possible to use student learning success as an accurate measure of school quality?

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For example, NAEP scores are measures of the overall achievement level of students and not necessarily an accurate reflection of the quality of each state's school system, yet they were used as the sole measure of academic achievement.

As Yong Zhao observed in his book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, «The American public, short of other easy - to - understand measures, seems to have accepted the notion that test scores are an accurate measure of the quality of their schools» (2009, 33).

Clearly, Brooks argues, scores on state - level standardized tests aren't an accurate measure of student learning — and shouldn't be relied on as a way to measure school quality.