Sentences with phrase «aligned assessments increased»

Between 2012 and 2014, the number of bills introduced in state legislatures that aimed to pause, review, or revoke the standards or aligned assessments increased eightfold.

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As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

This suggests that overuse of these assessments for high - stakes purposes may drive increased opposition to Common Core and aligned assessments in the future.

The goal of increased assessment and accountability in NCLB was to improve student achievement, reduce the achievement gap, and align instruction to academic standards.

A preschool program can strengthen your elementary setting, increase family relationships and connections, align curriculum and assessments, and create a unified professional conversation in your building.

Like the Vermont studies, this study highlights the increase in amount of writing and the differential impact of policy on teachers whose instruction is more or less aligned with new assessments.

EE.B.7) at the beginning of four consecutive lessons, reliable assessments (entrance cards) would yield results aligned with student improvement in each of the four days (i.e., a consistently increasing positive slope).

The improvements came along with increases statewide in the second year of the new assessments, which are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Only LevelSet includes an assessment forecast report * and a college and career readiness report that forecast student preparedness and are automatically adjusted when Lexile ® levels increase to guide instruction that aligns with students» needs.

The improvements came along with increases statewide in the second year of the new assessments, which are aligned with the Common Core...

At the same time, the need for professional development is increasing as many educators are implementing new academic standards and aligned assessments that demand deeper learning from students.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

ScholarCentric's middle and high school materials, technology, and services align well with SIG funding in the following categories: implement research - based assessments and curriculum, provide job - embedded professional development, use data to differentiate instruction, establish early - warning systems, adopt response - to - intervention models, improve the transition from middle to high school, increase graduation rates, and extend learning time.

Further, P - 3 requires ensuring that there is increased alignment across the continuum of learning settings so that, for example, teachers collaborate and share data across grade levels; standards and assessments are aligned across age levels; assessments are aligned with instruction; families partner with schools; schools partner with early learning / preschool programs; and children have smooth transitions as they move throughout the system.

In our program and policy work, NBCDI supports federal, state and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low - income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally - appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early grades continuum.