Sentences with phrase «assessment systems»

States and districts must work together to seize this opportunity to design coherent, aligned assessment systems that are based on rigorous standards.

In addition, abundant research has been conducted to examine the impact that movements toward standardization, accountability, and high - stakes assessment systems have had on teachers» practices, beliefs, attitudes, and overall effectiveness (e.g., Hamilton & Stecher, 2004; National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, 2003; Parke, Lane, & Stone, 2006).

This sort of «privileged information» (Raad, 2008)-- gained through field experience and offered by knowledgeable adults — remains invisible to our assessment systems, no matter how big the data.

As SEA workloads have increased, SEA staff members have focused increasingly on tasks related to legislated curricular standards and assessment systems.

Authentic Assessment Assessing life, cognitive and career skills and knowledge through comprehensive and formative assessment systems.

The English Learners (EL) Collaborative explores issues of policy implementation, assessment systems, and state policies that affect instruction, curriculum, professional supports, and state leadership for English learners.

ConnCAN, a Connecticut - based education advocacy group, has released a report comparing assessment systems in other states.

For instance, the Department of Education found that the assessment systems in California, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Alabama were substantially out of compliance with the requirements of the 1994 legislation.

Developing kindergarten readiness and other large - scale assessment systems: Necessary considerations in the assessment of youth children.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

And, most significantly, especially for students, the education community is beginning to balance its reliance on external assessment systems with an understanding of classroom assessment's instructional power.

An assessment manifesto: A call for the development of balanced assessment systems.

Effective assessment systems provide balanced measures of a student's capacity in the foundational functions (recall, recognize, comprehend, apply in context, and follow routines) and the more complex functions (analyze, synthesize, compare, critique, investigate, prove, explain, and create), which more appropriately assesses a student's progress toward achieving college and career readiness.

Each of seven principles includes a list of detailed «indicators» to evaluate assessment systems.

Pennsylvania and Texas are conditionally approved provided they satisfy final requirements related to their accountability and assessment systems, respectively.

Moreover, both consortia are designing their assessment systems with the substantial involvement of experts and teachers of English learners and students with disabilities to ensure that these students are appropriately assessed.

But everything fell apart the minute we broke up into «enabling environments,» to revise «cluster logic models,» and «establish comprehensive assessment systems.»

A limited number of pause buttons: a state should have the ability to hit a pause button for some parts of its rating system on occasion where the changes to assessment systems makes it very difficult for a range of reasons to assign labels to schools based on algorithms such as the recommendations here.

The law commits resources for states to improve their assessment systems by reviewing their existing assessments to ensure that each test is high - quality, maximizes instructional goals, has a clear purpose, and is designed to help students demonstrate progress.

Includes updates on state and federal legislation, reports on test misuse and efforts to stop it and profiles of promising new assessment systems.

Testing Our Children: Executive Summary (FairTest, 1997: 40 pp)... $ 10; 5 for $ 40 This study evaluates how well K - 12 assessment systems in all 50 states support and help improve student learning.

Provide resources to states to assist and support development of appropriate and effective assessment systems that provide accurate information to guide decision making at the school, district, state, and federal levels.

Due to the highly technical nature of the Race to the Top Assessment Competition, the Department sent invitations to two groups of individuals to serve as peer reviewers: 1) experts who served as panelists for the Race to the Top Assessment public meetings (these were nominated by the director of the National Academies of Sciences» Board on Testing and Assessment, by the U. S. Department of Education's National Technical Advisory Council chair, and / or by Department experts); and 2) persons experienced as peer reviewers in the Title I review of State assessment systems (all recruited on the basis of assessment expertise).

Johnny Can Read... in Some States Assessing the rigor of state assessment systems By Paul E. Peterson and Frederick M. Hess Summer 2005

Many of those asked claimed the tests, which are to be brought into all schools from September, were unreliable, duplicated work and did not marry with existing assessment systems.

Unfortunately, current assessment systems, which focus on multiple choice and fill - in - the - blank or short answer questions, don't adequately do so.

Primary education resource and consultancy provider Focus Education has announced a new partnership with 2Eskimos - the software development company behind the popular «2Build a Profile» assessment systems.

States varied tremendously in their readiness to implement the consortia - designed assessments, which represented a significant shift from most states» prior assessment systems.

With the changing landscape of education — including the imminent arrival of the Common Core State Standards and the new assessments needed to measure progress towards them — the time is right for a reevaluation of assessment systems.

It ends with recommendations on how we can create new comprehensive assessment systems that incorporate the desires of parents and educators.

As the report puts it, there is a sense among both parents and educators that assessment systems need to simultaneously zoom in and zoom out.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Other states, such as California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, and Texas, adopted assessment systems that exceeded the old federal requirement.

«We expect the consortia to develop assessment systems that are markedly better than current assessments.»

The red bar tracks the number of unique assessment systems states use.

As part of the national push to hold all students to higher standards, states are being told to include in their assessment systems the 5.2 million U.S. students with disabilities and the roughly three million who are learning English as their second language.

This research, commissioned by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education to inform the state's decision this past fall as to which test to use going forward, provides important evidence for any state considering whether and how to upgrade their assessment systems.

Few tests do both things well, but the new assessment systems emerging to accompany the Common COre are tasked with accomplishing precisely this.

The Committee is currently inviting written submissions addressing the following topics: - The purpose of primary assessment and how well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessment

Educational technology does help to cater to individual pupils» needs and assessment systems.

Teachers have to create assessment systems that define what these skills mean and then provide regular opportunities for students to demonstrate them.

States no longer give tests; instead, they test them: They certify that local assessment systems are up to standards, and that schools and school districts regularly monitor their progress toward their goals.

Based on these audits, state personnel make recommendations and assist in improving local assessment systems.

For the 14 per cent of primary schools indicating more spending on ICT than planned, the focus is most likely to be on assessment systems.

If teachers» response to uncertainty is to close their doors and teach what they know, most of what they now know is Louisiana's set of Tier 1 curricula, which has grown to encompass materials for early childhood, social studies, and science programs, along with math and ELA interim and benchmark assessment systems.

Proposals for a $ 320 million fund for comprehensive assessment systems (two proposals to be funded) and a $ 30 million fund for high school end - of - course tests are due today.

This is important work that PARCC and Smarter Balanced are actively engaged in and something that has been lacking in state assessment systems previously.

Current state tests were missing several important opportunities — they often did not measure the full range of what students should know, focusing on easier skills and ignoring hard - to - measure standards, and most states did not include writing in their assessment systems (to name just a few of the issues with the current market of tests).

The two consortia are making significant progress developing their assessment systems and are making an effort to be as transparent as possible, going well beyond what is typical in an assessment - development process.

Yet, when we talk educational technology, there's far too much excited talk about big purchases of tablets or assessment systems and far too little about just what educators and students are supposed to actually do with these.