Sentences with phrase «at teaching to the test»

It seems implausible that the teachers who are best at teaching to the test are also best at fostering more general skills.

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When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momenTo test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momento make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momento focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

We had an experience early on that taught us a lot, where we did a very small experiment with some pop - up in - store demos at a few retail stores in Canada, just to test the in - store sales model for a weekend.

I was amazed that anyone could think we believe that fossils are «put there by God to test our faith» and wondered what other nonsense our children might be taught at school.

The formation and testing of teachers being prepared to teach sex education can not reasonably be achieved at a one or two day in - service programme.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

Kinch visited the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen to teach us how to make these savory, deep - fried little bites stuffed with sautéed greens, which he changes throughout the seasons depending on what's growing at the farm.

From methods taught in the classroom to techniques used by major retailers to bring in the big bucks, I've tested them all to see what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling handmade at craft fairs.

I assume he is just testing boundaries, but I'd like to teach him about basic rules (i.e. we sit either in a high chair or a normal chair for meals) without having to yell at him.

The main reason end of the year standardized tests are given is to measure how well students have learned the skills that are expected to be taught at a particular grade level.

As part of KID's Teach Early Safety Testing (TEST), KID worked with four engineering seniors at the University of Michigan to develop a safer portable crib.

I'm sure that would go against the «teach to the test» paradigm, but it might just help these kids be ready for what life is going to throw at them.

Several teachers attending Monday's event spoke at length about the impact of Common Core testing requirements, saying they result in more «teaching to the test» rather than substantial learning and mastery.

According to her, the victim was admitted to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital but before doctors could obtain his blood sample for the test at Irua, he died.

Spencer says, «We know this is not just a matter of the time of day we tested them at as they were able to learn equally regardless of whether we taught them the task in the morning or the evening.»

When Lucero returns to teaching, she looks forward to testing her skills at a nearby public school.

«When compared to learners expecting a test, learners expecting to teach recalled more material correctly, they organized their recall more effectively and they had better memory for especially important information,» said lead author John Nestojko, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL.

Fortunately the same ideas predict very concrete new phenomena, a whole new world of particles that have to be accessible at the LHC and so [we have this] wonderful idea that we've been entranced by for 25 years, and the kind of the thing that Einstein dreamed of, unifying the forces, and now is the time of testing [whether these] ideas have been on the right track; whether nature has, with all these hands, has been teaching us or just teasing us.

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Neuroscientists at Western University have developed a new virtual reality «toolbox» that can be used to build video games with a unique capacity for teaching and testing both humans and animal models.

Dr. Farrer teaches several courses in human genetics and genetic epidemiology at Boston University, directs Boston University's Molecular Genetics Core Facility which offers DNA genotyping and sequencing services to investigators at the Boston Medical Center, and provides genetic counseling and testing to patients with a variety of inherited conditions.

At the end of each application phase, you'll put what you've learned to the test and teach your own class!

Sunada's unhurried film has time for moments of Miyazaki looking at the flowers, testing the strength of tree limbs, teaching his staff how people in Japan bowed pre-World War II, voice - casting «The Wind Rises» and explaining himself to his longtime producer, Toshiro Suzuki.

Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP biology at Mission Viejo High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her students as in - class assignments and on tests.

Yet at present it is impossible to ensure that the child has actually been taught the material tested by the exam or that the exam in fact captures the breadth of knowledge that the student should have.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

Chenoweth: I think Congress should continue to demand that schools teach all their students to state standards and report the results of state testing, but at the same time, Congress needs to tighten up some of the loopholes that states have been able to drive trucks through.

«In reality, though, the system often seemed to set schools up to take the low road of improving test scores, not to encourage them to look deeply at the learning and teaching happening in classrooms.»

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

«The students at Pierce Primary School, where I teach, are currently using Accelerated Reader to test reading comprehension,» Wyatt added.

Government and education officials at all levels should make teaching more engaging and active and reinforce that focus with a new generation of tests, according to the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, which issued its final report after two years of study.

Teach the same curriculum to the same tests at the same speed with the same pedagogy with teachers who have fixed mindsets about student achievement - no wonder grouping to ability doesn't save the planet.

Following its release Vicki Phillips, the head of education at the Gates Foundation, told the New York Times: «Teaching to the test makes your students do worse on the tests.»

It has a starter, learning objectives, keywords, then look at specific examples of questions, with some great teaching slides, built in activities to test and develop understanding, a worksheet with answers and plenary.

This can be useful for teachers that are new to teaching this unit or aiming to add pace to complete the course and to assess pupils abilities at completing the necessary questions that are tested for this course.

At Hollin Meadows Science and Math Focus School the interim testing is done within the normal class period and is designed to be part of the regular teaching and learning cycle, said principal Jon Gates.

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

Most important, while the standards describe teaching as a set of highly complex tasks, much of what currently passes for teacher testing follows a reductionist model — looking not so much at what's important but at what's easy to measure.

• Moving state tests to the last four weeks of the school year to give teachers more time to teach — and reducing dead time at year's end.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Examining Test Scores a Complex Assignment Sign On San Diego, September 20, 2011» «My view is the good old days worked well for some students but really neglected many, many others,» said [Professor] Tom Payzant, a former superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District who went on to lead several other districts and now teaches at Harvard University.

This could be used by pupils at the end of teaching each topic / sub-theme in order to test / check understanding and to practise translation skills or used for wider translation purposes.

Where the tests are well aligned to high - quality standards and where they contain enough tasks requiring deep analysis and writing by students, matching teaching to the tests may work reasonably well, at least as a first step in reform.

But not looking at the results of teaching during the school year is part of a broader American tendency to «teach, test, and hope for the best.»

Resistance to evaluating teachers on results is well - founded at one level: Unsophisticated administrators might use unsuitable measures like norm - referenced tests or unfairly evaluate teachers for failing to reach grade - level standards with students who were poorly taught the year before or who had significant learning deficits.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

His second book, How Children Succeed, looked at the mindsets and skills children need to excel in school and life that are not directly captured by standardized tests, anticipating and also helping to drive the current enthusiasm for teaching so - called noncognitive skills.

Now, at 51 there is plenty strategies to explore, or you can read David Didau first 5 days teaching / exploration / testing of the list over at The Learning Spy.

Pathways program planners «look at such traditional criteria as grade point averages and test scores, but they also use interviews and writing samples to select people who are committed to teaching in urban schools.»