Sentences with phrase «beyond academic testing»

I was encouraged this week to learn that ESSA — the new American education law — that replaced NCLB includes language that opens the door beyond academic testing to include «multiple measures of student learning and progress, along with other indicators of student success...» Education Week notes that sprinkled throughout the law are references to an instructional strategy that has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs.

Not exact matches

«With more than 50 years of experience in assessment..., we felt ourselves to be the logical choice to spearhead a campaign against academic dishonesty — cheating that goes beyond standardized tests,» said Kevin Gonzales of ETS told Education World.

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

Researcher's Goal: An Admissions Process That Rewards «Ethical Character» Chronicle for Higher Education, 10/4/15 «The project grew from the worry that many teenagers, focused on academic achievement and their own success, have too little concern for others and the world beyond their test - prep manuals.

In a time when standardized tests are criticized by some for being educational cookie cutters, there's growing interest in the skills young people need that go beyond academics.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) takes a more comprehensive approach to assessing school quality than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), moving beyond NCLB's focus on annual test performance to also consider factors like student academic growth, graduation rates, and rates of proficiency for English language learners.

«But beyond that, the work that Betsaida and her colleagues in the Social Studies department have done has translated into academic success and high test scores.

The Whole Child, Whole Person Summit will raise awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.

This biennial report card looks beyond test scores as the lone litmus test of Illinois» educational health to examine academic improvement, achievement gaps and learning conditions within the state's public schools.

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

Our findings do suggest that school factors affecting in - boundary participation rates might extend beyond academics, as Wilson HS is still an important factor even when we consider test scores.

And Singapore is not alone in refocusing the goals of its education system beyond narrow academic curricula and high - stakes testing.

None of the tests assessed what the authors call «knowledge for teaching», which they say involves the deep mastery of an academic subject that goes beyond, but is intimately connected to, the highest K - 12 academic standards.

According to the National Education Association (2015), parental involvement, or family engagement, increases the likelihood that students will raise grade point averages and earn higher test scores, and attrition rates will decrease; socially, students improve their behavior and adapt better to the school environment, which also affects their academic successes during grade school and beyond.

The PARCC tests measure whether students are meeting new, higher academic standards and are mastering the knowledge and skills they need to progress in their K - 12 education and beyond.

This absurd, unfair and ignorant policy is state law despite the fact that every academic study has shown that standardized test scores are driven primarily by poverty, language barriers and the impact of students with special education challenges... all factors for beyond the control of Connecticut's classroom teachers.

Student perceptions are a powerful complementary measure of academic rigor, beyond just test scores.

Only with a deep understanding of student learning — one that goes beyond the reading of a standardized test score — can teachers alter their practice in ways that open up new and targeted opportunities for their students to achieve academic success.

BCS» academic program, which includes character development, project - based learning and a rigorous international curriculum, prepares our students beyond standardized testing - they are becoming 21st century global leaders.»

Support from the STAARS Leaders project allows educators to evaluate student success beyond the mold of standardized testing in the interest of building the skills and knowledge necessary for students to succeed at any academic endeavor.

The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students raise their standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.

Students in Seattle Public Schools take the standardized Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test up to three times a year, from kindergarten through ninth grade or beyond.

Beyond the ethics of capturing the Facebook profiles of millions of users by offering them a personality test, the commercial use of that data contradicts an impression that the database was intended for academic purposes only.

In addition to a set of «substantially weighted» academic indicators, states are to add to them «at least one additional indicator of school quality or student success beyond test scores.»

How do we measure success in a way that goes beyond test scores and academic assessments and focuses on the realization of human potential?

Specifically, the study tested whether school climate has an additive contribution to academics beyond students» and schools» SES (compensation model), whether the school's SES influences its social climate, which in turn influences academic achievement (mediation model); or whether the relationship between SES and academics changes across schools with different climates (moderation model).