Sentences with phrase «annual standardized test results»

So here's a glimpse into what next - to - nothing accountability for a publicly - funded school voucher program looks like: current law only requires private schools with more than 25 voucher students to make public their annual standardized test results.

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Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

Administers standardized achievement tests, interprets results to determine learners» strengths and areas of need for initial, annual and triennial assessments.

Students would still take annual standardized tests, but states would have much more control in how the results are used to scrutinize schools under a bipartisan plan to update the No Child Left Behind education law announced Tuesday by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Not too long ago, California released its statewide 2012 annual school rankings, listing the top - performing schools in the state, based on the Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated from standardized test results.

«Our office does not keep the annual fire and sanitation inspections or any immunization records or standardized achievement test results on the individual Non Public Schools,» said Mills.

Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.

Both men genuinely believed in the idea of administering annual standardized tests to schoolchildren and holding schools accountable for the results.

When benchmark assessment results or annual standardized test scores are examined, it's often done in a cursory manner, partly because teachers have so many demands on their time.