Sentences with phrase «aligned tests because»

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He and his wife chose to opt out their fifth grade son from taking the Common Core - aligned exams this year because they believe the tests were used for other purposes than what they were meant for, such as teacher evaluations and school funding.

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

Because these customized standards - based tests were designed (almost always with the assistance of an external test - development contractor) to be aligned with a state's curricular aspirations, it would seem that they would be ideal for appraising a school's quality.

Educators are concerned because so much is still unclear about the implementation of the tests, and whether the resources being created to align with the new standards will truly teach what students are meant to learn.

The standards themselves — and the Common Core - aligned tests that many students nationwide first took this past spring — don't specify what knowledge students should learn in each grade, because they're designed to be used across the country.

But because Massachusetts had some of the most highly regarded standards in the country and the test was closely aligned to them, it earned a reputation as a bright spot in the testing world soon after it debuted in 1998.

Because curriculum varies from state to state and from community to community, a school with a curriculum that aligns with the test will fare better than a school with a curriculum that does not.

However, it loses points in the area of assessments because it lacks tests aligned to state standards at the elementary and middle school levels in science and social studies.

It lags behind in assessment largely because it does not have tests aligned to its academic standards in science or social studies.

That is because the PARCC tests are aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

But because the standards emphasize critical thinking and citing evidence, most teachers expect that new tests aligned with the Common Core will require students to write essays based on multiple reading passages.

Quality Content: Assert that high academic standards and aligned tests — both chosen by the state — are crucial because they evaluate what a student is learning.

Holtz said he encouraged implementation in order to be measured accurately against other school districts because the state test is aligned to Common Core.

Most districts use Common Core for those subjects because they align with the Smarter Balanced test, which Wisconsin and 16 other states use to measure student progress on achieving the standards.

This one impressed me because the format of the ELA articles is aligned with the format of most computer - based testing programs.

Our curriculum did not align with state tests because we had the flexibility to offer an education that demanded even more of young minds.

Students may have struggled with the math test because the new Common Core - aligned math standard is more difficult than what students are used to, said Carolina Cardenas, CSU's director of academic outreach and early assessment.

Because some states have decided to ditch the tests aligned with the standards being developed by the PARCC and Smarter Balanced state consortia because of the opposition of Common Core foes to overall implementation as well as because of worries that the exams will not be ready by 2015 Because some states have decided to ditch the tests aligned with the standards being developed by the PARCC and Smarter Balanced state consortia because of the opposition of Common Core foes to overall implementation as well as because of worries that the exams will not be ready by 2015 because of the opposition of Common Core foes to overall implementation as well as because of worries that the exams will not be ready by 2015 because of worries that the exams will not be ready by 2015 - 2016.

Education officials cancelled the July test in part because state lawmakers were considering whether to continue using the test as a graduate requirement even though it is not aligned with material being taught under new Common Core standards.

Oddly enough, the DOE pretty much admits that we did not need PARCC to demonstrate this to us because New Jersey participates in the National Assessment of Educational Progress testing every several years, and, wouldn't you know it, NAEP and PARCC results are not perfectly aligned, but they come pretty darned close (as do SAT and ACT scores):

It especially decries the lack of effective test instruments to assess reading comprehension because teachers can not evaluate the effectiveness of their instruction without reliable and valid assessments that are aligned with the curriculum.

By getting rid of the Common Core, we will get rid of teaching students the answers for the standardized tests aligned with the Common Core and, instead, teach students to form their own questions and explore those questions wherever those explorations take them because questioning is the essential skill for the information - laden 21st century.

For the past fourteen years also in the name of «accountability» we have had No Child Left Behind (NCLB) followed by Race to the Top (RTTT) which, because of the testing aligned with these programs, have been utter failures.

The decision is particularly painful for Kingsport because for the first time in three years students there were going to be taking tests directly aligned to what and how they've been learning — a monumental moment for teachers whose evaluations and compensation are based in part on students» test scores.

It's an important question, particularly because most states will soon be adopting new tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Even the Executive Director of SBAC has said that the Common Core aligned tests have a «huge validity problem» because they were never field - tested.

Further, because 2014 - 15 was the first year students are being graded on the new Common Core - aligned tests, the state has decided to keep the proportion of letter grades for each school the same as it was last year on a temporary basis, Kleban said.

Because the alignment of a state's student achievement tests is notoriously low to that state's content standards despite ESEA requiring that they be highly aligned, my students and I developed a test construction algorithm that uses the SEC to build aligned assessments rather than just to measure the degree of alignment of an assessment to its content standards after the fact.

ASK and HSPA are not aligned with what our children learn in school, although they are, sadly, responsible for misconceptions about student proficiency because they were way too easy; former Governor Jon Corzine's Education Commissioner Lucille Davy used to refer to the HSPA, which students took in 11th grade, as «an eighth - grade level test.»

Because most states now have evidence that their accountability tests are apparently «aligned» to their state's curricular aims, it is assumed that these tests do a satisfactory job of measuring educators» instructional quality.

The media darling side shows them receiving more press than most of the tokens because they have aligned themselves with known mega-companies who are testing with their platform.