Sentences with phrase «bad test prep»

The result will be score inflation: the artificial increase in scores that reflects «bad test prep» rather than an actual increase in achievement.

Compared to «content - rich» subjects like history and science, he says, reading doesn't lend itself as much to bad test prep.

«The bad news — absolutely pervasive bad test prep... much of it is just gaming, and it's particularly pervasive in low - income schools.»

To take just one example, one of the most disturbing negative effects of test - based accountability is that many young teachers have been trained specifically to use bad test prep — test prep that generates bogus gains in scores rather than true improvements in learning.

Some have been told explicitly that doing so is «good instruction,» and some districts and states have been purveyors of this bad test prep.

Better teaching of content will raise scores on a good test, of course — but not nearly as fast as the bogus gains that can often be achieved by means of bad test prep.

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

Not exact matches

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

Test prep generally takes the form of practice questions, daily drills at the start of class, or worse, a halting of curriculum altogether for the sake of administering entire packets of daily test questiTest prep generally takes the form of practice questions, daily drills at the start of class, or worse, a halting of curriculum altogether for the sake of administering entire packets of daily test questitest questions.

Many parents have encountered this — large amounts of teaching time lost to test prep that is boring, or worse.

Before we throw away bubble tests, though, we should institute a relatively simple change that would lessen the worst effects of the test - prep culture and improve education in the bargain.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

On average, the test - prep lessons were worse.

My skepticism doesn't mean that everything labeled «test prep» is bad.

If keeping on task for 6 - 7 hours on end is actually tough for everyone, that might mean that the elimination of recess in favor of more test prep is actually a bad idea.