Sentences with phrase «all about standardized tests»

The right high school for your student goes well beyond statistics available about standardized testing results and the number of advanced or honors level courses offered.

If your child's anxious about standardized testing, one of the first things to do is to desensitize the test for them.

What you should know about standardized tests before your child sharpens his # 2 pencil.

Instead, the crowd broke into smaller discussion groups to identify concerns about standardized testing.

State legislators Michael Kearns, Ray Walter and Marc Panepinto shared their concerns about standardized tests during a Monday rally.

Jane Baton, who identified herself as a local algebra teacher, said she was concerned about standardized testing when it came to students» math aptitude, and said rigidity in the system is not good for students.

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

Forget about standardized tests, forget about lack of funds, and forget about technology, the largest obstacle to improving student engagement is a lack of autonomy.

Philander Claxton, the commissioner of education in the United States, reached out to students across the country — not about standardized tests or preschool for all, but about something he called «joyous» and «useful»: school gardens.

We've compiled a resources list to help families understand various uses of assessment in schools, what questions to ask, how to help children prepare, and all about standardized tests.

Browse the resources below for more information about standardized tests, including new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Or it could simply be low motivation, since many students never hear about their standardized test results from previous years?

She claims that with all the concern about standardized tests at the end of the year, many teachers forget that students need to know what they are working towards.

Tell them you want to know more about standardized tests and what educational purposes they have.

Even before Common Core, she was uneasy about standardized testing.

At one of the most socially difficult times of their lives, over a third of our children have more anxiety about standardized tests than any other issue.

These are some of the things I've heard teachers say over the years about standardized test scores and the pressures surrounding student performance:

Have your read about standardized test manipulation and cut score deception?

In essence, it is important that parents continue to advocate and voice concerns about standardized testing, however, alternative supports need to be in place for students and parents as standardized testing are now the norm.

Many students, as well as parents, are extremely anxious and stressed out about the standardized test.

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

I thought of... Continue reading Paging Ernestine: Long Island Opt - Outers Don't Care About Standardized Tests Because They Don't Have To.

Recently, Duckworth heard about the school that was instituting a Grit Week in order to boost its students standardized testing scores, a goal she 100 percent would not have picked, for one simple reason: Who ever heard of a teenager being passionate about standardized tests?

But in hindsight, considering the backlash from Congress and from parents upset about standardized testing, and looking at what the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association and the National Research Council have said about the problems of using value - added models to make personnel decisions... do you feel like those were the right big bets?

Students and their parents have grumbled about standardized testing since it was mandated by the federal government in 1965.

An article in the Sunday Review highlights some of the concerns about standardized tests raised by minority parents, students, and educators.

I don't know many people crazy about standardized testing, but we can all agree on the need for accountability.

As proactive learners and performers, these students not only studied math, but also used it to learn all about the standardized tests.

Reframing the Purpose of Education History teacher Jesse Hagopian from Seattle talks during Education Nation's Teacher Town Hall about standardized tests and «reframing the purpose of education.»

There's a constant conversation out there about standardized tests: whether they're good or bad, or how much time we're spending on them.

But, now, those lawmakers are concerned about standardized test results that put it among the worst schools in the state.

The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be by Anya Kamenetz Nice summary of concerns about standardized testing and arguments against it.

Counselors advise students and parents about standardized testing, college essays and applications, financial aid options, and more.

For example, the Associated Press recently wrote about the standardized testing situation in New Jersey where Governor Christi, like Governor Malloy, is a big fan of having more standardized testing.

However, in a study examining elementary school parents» opinions about standardized tests and performance assessments, most parents approved of both types of measures and actually gave stronger approval ratings to performance assessments (Shepard & Bliem, 1995).

Many people whine about standardized tests.

About Standardized Tests The ACT is a national college admissions examination that consists of subject area tests in English, Math, Reading, and Science.

Emily Giles, a teacher at International High School at Prospect Heights, told me about a standardized test that was disrespecting the schools» English Language Learner (ELL) students» cultural and linguistic diversity.

The article also provides two sections with related information: 1) a «glossary of testing terms,» which explains fundamentals of standardized tests and how these tests will be used in the context of new federal legislation (the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002) which requires states to give standardized tests annually, analyze data in specific ways, and track progress toward a required goal; and 2) «frequently asked questions about standardized testing,» which addresses many of parents» concerns about how standardized tests may be used with and affect their children.

What are your views about standardized tests and the university admissions process?

Simply put, it is not all about standardized test scores anymore, and the school with the highest scores may no longer be the highest ranked school under the new system.

Reality check, my statement about no standardized tests to evaluate codes for dynamical cores in atmospheric models has been misinterpreted.

Not exact matches

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

Only about one black student in seven scores above the 50th percentile on standardized college admissions tests.

Dick Tilton After writing a serious rant about all this, I reconsidered: This is — hopefully — about improving effectiveness in standardized testing, NOT about limiting pepperoni from school curricula.

Wuthnow is most concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.

I have a friend who brags loudly about the rigor of his premarital procedures: a minimum of four hours of counseling, physiological instruction, birth - control advice, standardized personality tests, and theological lectures.

Some of these tests were the standardized tests that the states or districts re-use each year, and the teachers were worried about kids cheating — sharing questions and answers with next year's students.

I recently had a long, serious talk with my son about how he needs to do well on a standardized test so he can get into an advanced math class.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.