Sentences with phrase «based test aligned to the standards»

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

Not exact matches

But it provides a science test aligned to state standards in middle school only, and it offers no standards - based test in history / social studies.

Because these customized standards - based tests were designed (almost always with the assistance of an external test - development contractor) to be aligned with a state's curricular aspirations, it would seem that they would be ideal for appraising a school's quality.

Findings demonstrate that a standards - based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

So in total: The Department will be hands - off about the test systems states choose; the consortia will sink or swim based on their ability to create products states want; states may chose to go in different directions, making comparing results difficult; but the Department will use its peer - review process to ensure state systems are aligned with standards and set the proficiency bar high.

But because the standards emphasize critical thinking and citing evidence, most teachers expect that new tests aligned with the Common Core will require students to write essays based on multiple reading passages.

Based on conditions in the state's No Child Left Behind waiver, that meant officials also had to provide a test aligned with the new standards to students this coming spring.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

They also believe the Common Core paved the way for the PARCC test, a nationally developed standardized test closely aligned to the Common Core standards that will form the basis of Massachusetts's new MCAS test in 2017.

3 - 3:50 p.m. SESSION 6: Proven Planning Process for Classroom Instruction Based on a backwards design planning process and field - tested with educators over 10 years, learn how Strategic Design for Student Achievement guides teachers and school leaders through specific steps to unpack content standards, align assessment and instruction, and understand the depth of comprehension required of students for mastery.

Additionally, many states continue to use tests based on old standards despite instruction that is increasingly aligned with the Common Core standards; this is a concern where evaluation systems determine educator effectiveness based at least in part on student test scores.

Based on a backwards design planning process we developed and field - tested with educators over several years, Strategic Design guides teachers and school leaders through specific steps to unpack content standards, align assessment and instruction, and understand the depth of comprehension required of students for mastery.

But in Tennessee, where an educator's evaluation, and in some cases compensation, is based on student test scores, teaching to the Common Core while not aligning tests to those standards is problematic.

Department of Educations Extends Transition Flexibility Waivers for StatesThe Department of Education will consider, on a state - by - state basis, requests for flexibility in two areas: the timeline for using results of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility for personnel decisions, and field testing new assessments aligned to college - and career - ready standards.

The letter commended Wisconsin for planning for a new common set of standards aligned to college and career readiness, and also for developing a teacher evaluation system based on educator practice and student test scores.

The state promised to turn around its poorest performing schools over the course of four years, evaluate teachers based in part on student test scores, increase the use of technology in the classroom, and use more rigorous academic standards along with new tests aligned to those standards.