A long - standing dispute over standardized testing of California's second graders has simmered back to the surface, as lawmakers consider legislation that would remove
the assessment from the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, beginning July 2012.
Not exact matches
Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion
Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick
Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove -
from - play decision, or one of a number of new
assessment screens being developed and
tested.
Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet
from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed
from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion
assessment tools, such as the
Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion
Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick
test.
We've compiled some of the best resources
from Edutopia and the web to support your use of
assessment in PBL, including information about strategies, advice on how to address the demands of
standardized tests, and summaries of the research.
Students receive a lot of useful quantitative feedback in our modern classrooms:
from benchmark
assessments to reading levels, progression on schoolwide rubrics to formal
standardized testing.
Using the Connecticut state standards and previously released
test items from the state's standardized test, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six we
test items
from the state's
standardized test, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six we
test, the Connecticut Mastery
Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six we
Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative
assessments that would be administered every six weeks.
Beginning this school year,
standardized tests — as administered by the two major
assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced and the Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)-- will look different
from what we've gotten used to.
The
assessments may come in a variety of forms,
from standardized tests, to essays, to portfolio projects, depending on the teachers» preferences.
From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use
standardized assessments and the student achievement data these
tests produce?
From standardized testing to common formative
assessments, we have an expansive amount of data on student ability.
Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field
test for the new Common Core
assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver
from also giving current state
standardized tests required by federal law.
New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing the change in his or her achievement on the state
standardized assessment from one year to the student's «academic peers» (all other students in the state who had similar historical
test results).
«There were various anecdotal reasons why students refused the
test, ranging
from test anxiety to concerns about this specific
standardized assessment,» she said.
A: For subjects
tested by the state
standardized assessment, New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing a student's growth to the growth made by that student's academic peers (students
from around the state with similar score histories).
In contrast to
standardized assessment items, the assignments and
tests that most teachers create and then use in their classrooms are often far
from being valid or reliable.
We suggest that policymakers begin by moving resources away
from standardized test creation and toward supporting the development of quality
assessments in schools.
The following
assessment of what influences
standardized test scores comes
from education researcher Christopher Tienken via education blogger Peter Greene.
The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data
from such sources as state
standardized tests, high school exit exams and district
assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.
Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken
from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic
assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes
standardized tests (Iowa
Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement
Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.
Making judgments about student learning and school quality based on a body of work — a select number of pieces of student work
from a number of
assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture of student learning than a single, disconnected
standardized test.
Except for yearly
standardized testing as an
assessment of student achievement, services for homeschoolers have not been routinely available
from the states.
Create a coherent
assessment and evaluation framework: After devolution
from England, Wales disposed of its
standardized tests.
The National Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on one of two criteria: performance on state
assessments, or in the case of private schools, performance on national
standardized tests; or schools with at least 40 percent of students
from disadvantaged backgrounds that raise achievement as measured by state
assessments or national
standardized tests.
The local measures could include results
from commercial
standardized tests, as well as results
from teacher - scored
assessments.
Because classroom teachers can effectively use all available
assessment methods, including the more labor - intensive methods of performance
assessment and personal communication, they can provide information about student progress not typically available
from student information systems or
standardized test results.
Although your students» number 2 pencils may dull during the course of the school year
from marking all the
standardized tests they must take, we hope these Web sites will sharpen your use of
assessment as an instructional tool.
In the above article Chalkbeat focused on how some district practices, in Boulder specifically, discouraged high school students
from taking state
standardized tests: for the second year in a row, Boulder high schools continued instruction for ninth - grade students who opted - out of PARCC
assessments, effectively penalizing students who took the state
assessments as they had to catch up on the content later (1).
Results
from the state
standardized tests known as Smarter Balanced
Assessments taken last spring showed that while many subgroups
test scores improved
from the previous year, results for LA Unified's English language learners were stagnant.
And finally, we should focus on
assessment and move away
from our focus on
standardized testing.
State superintendent Tony Bennett announced the change in Gary this morning, opting to bring in the company — already contracted to work in schools
from South Carolina to Washington state — to take over a school where 84.3 percent of students failed state
standardized tests and 92.2 percent of sophomores failed End - of - Course
Assessments.
The Garden State can also take steps to trust teacher expertise and professionalism in the classroom by moving strongly away
from the SGP and SGO components of
assessment that both drive up the importance of
standardized testing and take enormous amounts of time in an exercise with little value.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has claimed that this «new generation of state
assessments» will be different
from and better than the current crop of
standardized tests.
Partisans for the education reform environment
from 2010 forward will argue that the
standardized test based
assessment system is indispensable because it dispenses with the «lies» about what students are actually learning.
A new law changing the state's
standardized testing program, Assembly Bill 484, which Torlakson and Gov. Jerry Brown supported and that sparked a dispute with the federal government, required only that students be given one of the
assessments, although it didn't explicitly prevent Torlakson
from offering both
tests.
They conclude with policy prescriptions, starting with the need to change
from a focus on
standardized tests to what is still the «black box» of actual student learning and to changing classroom practices, particularly formative
assessment.
The authors take the 2009 reading
test results released in March
from the National
Assessment of Educational Progress — considered to be the gold standard in K - 12
standardized assessment — and break down the numbers to show how well different groups of disadvantaged students are doing:
Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious
test prep, and time diverted
from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented
from getting the
test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably -
standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.
Our district also partnered with a state university to set up a computer program that teachers and administrators can use to view students»
assessment scores
from standardized tests to enable teachers to drive instruction.
Analyzed data
from summative and formative
assessments to identify students» needs to facilitate an after - school program to advance
standardized test scores and support struggling students
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from a combination of time proven,
standardized tests and career
assessment tools custom selected or designed to address the needs of each individual, and the professional expertise to convey this information so it is immediately useful to bring career goals and next steps into focus.