However,
because assessing student learning may happen at a later time, such as an end - of - the - unit exam, a lesson plan may provide a teacher the opportunity to create assessment questions for use later.
Not exact matches
Because we want to know whether
students are
learning, we need to
assess; and so the Obama administration funded the creation of two tests.
Teachers must recognize effectiveness through the lens of cause and effect relationships occurring during a lesson (e.g «
Because you created the
learning criteria with the
students and modeled how to use the rubric,
students were successfully self -
assessing to improve their essays...»).
The program also stands out
because of the breadth of its education and classroom certification programs that focus on literacy and educational technology, which supports literacy across content areas and the use of technology to
assess student learning.
But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy
because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of
student learning to
assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being
assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.
The tests are not useful to teachers, parents or
students because they don't
assess important areas of
learning, questions and answers are secret, and scores are not returned in a timely manner.
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) test results published last week were useful
because those tests are designed to
assess what
students are
learning in their schools in maths and science, whereas the PISA tests are based around The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) idea of what workforce skills
students will need in the future.