Sentences with phrase «based on standardized test»

It also appears to restrict research based on standardized test results.

Adopting core values like «No Excuses,» «Whatever it Takes,» and «Sweating the Small Stuff,» IDEA Mays aims to follow in the footsteps of schools like IDEA South Flores, where Boyd served as principal in residence last year, and the five other IDEA San Antonio schools that received all possible distinctions from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) this year based on their standardized test scores.

Furthermore, teacher evaluations based on standardized test scores have been proven to be wildly inaccurate and to massively increase the frequency of standardized tests children must take.

I condemn in the strongest language possible reforms based on standardized test results and evaluations for teachers that include these results because they deny the creativity and humanity of both the child and the teacher.»

The schools are all a part of a 15 - school class of institutions that landed on the state's «priority» schools list for ranking among the lowest in the state based on standardized test scores.

A letter Thursday from Deborah Delisle, an assistant U.S. education secretary, told state schools chiefs of an «amended waiver extension process» for states that want to continue to be free of No Child Left Behind, the Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

For members of the state board, this presents the opportunity to redefine school accountability from a system that was strictly based on standardized test scores under the federal No Child Left Behind Act to one offering a multi-dimensional look at student achievement, school culture and college and career preparation.

Pushing his education reform agenda, Bush called for ending teacher tenure, implementing teacher evaluations and compensation based on standardized test scores and utilizing alternative paths to certification / licensure.

A value - added measure based on a standardized test score is primarily predictive of the influence of teaching on standardized test scores; and value - added measures are found to be strong predictors in this capacity.

Teachers have complained the Best and Brightest program is unfair — it awards bonuses partly based on standardized test scores — disadvantaging older and minority educators.

Schools, panicked at having their survival based on standardized test scores, invested heavily in testing technology.

The red bar indicates the percentage of teachers at each level based on standardized test scores.

Schools deemed low - performing based on standardized test scores and student grade point averages will enter the EAS.

Evaluate Teachers based on Standardized Test Scores?

Betances posted an increase that year of 35.9 points on Hartford's Overall School Index, a metric system that rates schools based on standardized test scores.

Your chief strategies are evaluating teachers based on standardized test scores and implementation of the Common Core standardized tests in every grade, with a multitude of interim computerized tests as well as summative computerized tests.

Under Malloy's policy, not only will the state rate schools and students based on standardized test results, but Connecticut's public school teachers will also be evaluated on how well their students do on these unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory tests.

Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans holds the title as the top school in Louisiana based on standardized test scores and other measures included on the state's accountability report card and is listed among the nation's best public schools.

No student should be denied graduation or rated on a national scale based on a standardized test!

Based on standardized test scores, Pioneer ranks among the top 1 percent of California secondary schools and, in 2009 and 2011, was named Orange County's top middle school.

* VAMs are generally based on standardized test scores and do not directly measure potential teacher contributions toward other student outcomes.

Farragut Middle School eighth grade science teacher Mark Taylor believes he was unfairly denied a bonus after his value - added estimate was based on the standardized test scores of 22 of his 142 students.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

The State Board of Education last week unanimously approved a new accountability system for schools, replacing the Academic Performance Index, which assigned a single number to schools that was largely based on standardized test scores.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

EdVisions Off Campus does not feel that the entire measure of a student is based on standardized test scores.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

The new initiative, called «Excellent Educators for All,» aims to bring states into compliance with a teacher equity mandate in the No Child Left Behind Act, the George W. Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

While some states still judge schools solely based on standardized test scores, these polls reveal that most parents and guardians do not.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

The program, created by a 1990 Commission with substantial business community involvement, provides cash awards to teachers based on standardized test results.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

20 % of teacher evaluations will be based on student scores on standardized tests, and another 20 % of the teacher's grade will be based on standardized test scores, but there will be some leeway for interpreting those test scores.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Cuomo wants to change the way teacher evaluations are measured, he'd like to see at least half of a teacher's grade be based on standardized tests associated with the Common Core curriculum.

If Davidson is right, 21st - century society will move away from categorizing people based on standardized tests, which are crude measures of intelligence at best.

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

The national examination system is based on standardized tests that are the same for all students in the country, and play a crucial quality monitoring role.

The API is a separate statistical measure for schools which, at the elementary and middle school level, is entirely based on standardized tests.

This year, we took a stand on this point by subverting the evaluation of our teachers based on standardized tests.

A curriculum based on standardized tests implies that our students» lives, our lives, and the vibrant lives of our communities just don't seem to matter.

But fifth - graders at the Liberation College Preparatory School and Spirit College Prep, new schools in Houston, declined in both reading and math achievement in their first year, based on standardized tests administered by KIPP to keep track of each school's and each child's progress.

After implementing Capturing Kids» Hearts, Ash Fork School District went from underperforming to the highest performing school district in the state based on standardized testing.

You write, «I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that the closest thing states have to an objective measure of student achievement [value - added growth scores based on standardized tests] should not be part of the equation.»

Connecticut's rating system, which judges and sanctions schools based on standardized tests scores, provides more reasons to exclude.

At least since 2001, when No Child Left Behind set strict student achievement benchmarks based on standardized tests, teachers have had reason to fear data.

This fracturing of focus is now coupled with intense performance demands based on standardized tests.