Sentences with phrase «as an accountability measure»

For those states that have opted to administer the test to all learners as an accountability measure, a testing schedule may be found on your state education agency's site.

Over the several decades that standardized test results have been used as an accountability measure, few have questioned the assumption that these tests provide evidence that actually reflects school quality and that can promote school improvement.

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

In «Graduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rates.

This 2008 report by Ann Duffett, Steve Farkas, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Elena Silva and sponsored by Education Sector and the Joyce Foundation analyzes a survey completed by 1,010 teachers about their feelings in regard to various educational reforms such as accountability measures, tenure, differential pay, and workplace environment.

During the past 20 years, there has been a steady increase in the use of standardized tests as accountability measures (Linn, 2000; Madaus & Tan, 1993).

In addition, BRIDGES created procedures for referring children for developmental assessments, as well as accountability measures should child advocates or foster parents not follow through in obtaining assessments.

If assessments are going to be used as accountability measures, reliability (the degree to which a test can be depended on to produce consistent results repeatedly), and validity (the extent to which a test accurately measures the result that it is intended to measure), become critically important.

Additional analysis by Education Datalab claims these figures show that the introduction of Progress 8 as an accountability measure is actually driving curriculum change more than the EBacc is.