Sentences with phrase «accurately measure student learning»

If teachers do not view assessment data as timely, or if they feel that it does not accurately measure student learning, efforts to get them to use the data fall flat (Marsh, Pane, & Hamilton, 2006).

It is time for a new generation of accountability that fully reflects a more comprehensive definition of student success, accurately measures student learning, and more systematically tracks our efforts to support children.

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Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

But the NEPC report contains no information that can be used to accurately measure the effect of K12 schools on how much their students learn.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

selecting or developing assessments and / or rubrics that accurately measure student mastery of unit learning objectives, and

The Association advocates for the appropriate use of available data; minimizing administrative burdens to schools; and using student growth measures to accurately describe the impact of teachers and schools on student learning.

Alternate, appropriate methods of assessing learning for special student populations such as ESE and ELL to accurately measure student progress.

In exchange, they receive more autonomy, although all public schools, charter or traditional, use the same course content (Common Core, renamed «New Jersey Student Learning Standards) and the same tests (PARCC, which, by the way, just got an «unconditional thumbs - up» for accurately measuring student gStudent Learning Standards) and the same tests (PARCC, which, by the way, just got an «unconditional thumbs - up» for accurately measuring student gstudent growth).

More than 7,600 partners in U.S. schools, school districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and mastery, professional development that fosters educators» ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation.

«Over a four - year period we conducted exhaustive research and interviewed hundreds of educators and learned that many of them are struggling to accurately measure student growth on a daily basis,» said Mark Angel, chief technology officer at Renaissance.

Every year poorly designed tests fail to accurately measure many students» learning — and negatively affect their academic futures.

We believe our existing state tests accurately measure what students should be learning in classrooms across the state.

Evaluate how good questions measure student learning accurately, acceptably, appropriately, and authentically

Without accommodations, an assessment may not accurately measure the knowledge and skills of a student with a learning disability (e.g., dyslexia).

Hawley neatly summed up the emerging situation: «My fellow colleagues and I who serve as principals know that being held accountable for student achievement is an important part of our job, but measures of student achievement must be comprehensive and accurately reflect the local context in all dimensions of student learning.»

Classroom rubrics sometimes mass multiple measures together in ways that distort the purpose of accurately reporting how well students have achieved learning goals.

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