Sentences with phrase «beyond test scores»

We take education seriously and we know that the measure of success goes beyond test scores.

The new law encourages them also to look beyond test scores at «other indicators of student success or school quality» — a smart idea if done right.

Federal law did allow states to classify schools using performance measures beyond test scores.

As teachers gain experience, their students are more likely to do better on other measures of success beyond test scores, such as school attendance.

Finally, this research makes clear the need to move beyond test scores and broaden the scope of measures used to evaluate success.

The improvements extend beyond test scores and academic achievement.

She's right, of course, that elite schools look for qualities beyond test scores.

The paper contributes to the literature by focusing on middle school teachers and by extending the analysis to student outcomes beyond test scores.

It is the definition of success, however, that he said should be expanded beyond test scores and college prep.

The biggest goal in the new accountability plan is to broaden how school success is measured, reaching beyond test scores and graduation rates.

Pretty much everyone wants to get beyond test scores.

These changes go way beyond test scores and teacher evaluations.

Although still nascent in some cases, early childhood instructional measures can provide states ways to measure results in the classroom beyond test scores.

The new systems must include metrics beyond test scores — such as student success rates in advanced coursework.

But there are at least two reasons we might want to look beyond test scores and other school - based outcome measures.

The dashboard goes beyond test scores to offer a broader sense of how students are doing in school, she said.

Our research approach also allows us to focus on student success beyond test scores.

The German School Academy sponsors annual competitions among schools on indicators related to diversity, student leadership, and cooperative skills that go far beyond test score results.

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

Overview The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of assessment beyond test scores.

• Amendments to expand accountability beyond test scores and expand full - service community schools models.

Beyond Measure Challenges Americans to look beyond test scores at the students themselves.

City officials dismissed the results, telling Chalkbeat that the analysis «does not account for differences in school performance beyond test scores and graduation rates.»

Let's take a step beyond test scores.

There's also a growing consensus that in the next generation of accountability policies, we must broaden the criteria beyond test scores, and the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), encourages this kind of creative rethinking.

Understanding the effect of private school choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.

A single rating would severely undercut the value of the multiple measures approach that the state adopted as a key feature of LCFF and would undermine the value of ESSA's requirement that states include indicators beyond 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.

Think beyond test scores.

Gaithersburg Middle School parents want Weast's replacement to «focus beyond test scores, to create much more well - rounded students.»

Chalkbeat Beyond the test score horse race: 5 big questions researchers are asking about charter schools

Beyond Test Scores reframes current debates over school quality by offering new approaches to educational data that can push us past our unproductive fixation on test scores.

Displays that feature work samples allow parents to see beyond test scores to what the children are learning and how they are learning it.

«There's a whole lot more that goes into educating children beyond a test score,» said Folker, who teaches at Mayberry Elementary School in Echo Park.

The Writing Supplement allows the admissions committee to get to know Engineering applicants beyond their test scores and transcripts.

Overview The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures beyond test scores.

There's plenty of evidence that students attending «no excuses» charter schools can do extremely well on standardized tests, but do the benefits of this approach to education extend beyond test scores?

Assistant Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock and her team at Carrollton - Farmers Branch ISD (CFBISD) fiercely focus on high achievement for all students, and this commitment to excellence goes far beyond test scores.

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

They must also create comprehensive systems of teacher and principal development, evaluation and support that include factors beyond test scores, such as principal observation, peer review, student work, or parent and student feedback... they must set new performance targets for improving student achievement and closing achievement gaps.

The database goes beyond test scores and graduation rates.

The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of assessment beyond test scores.

As states look for ways to measure and improve educational quality beyond test scores, the federal Every Student Succeeds Act provides an opportunity to consider data on teacher - child interactions.

«But there are so many mediating factors and outcomes beyond test scores that applauding the academic impact is only part of the story.»

We need to look beyond test scores of subgroups and, as ASCD contends, assess a school's effectiveness using multiple measures.

States can foster innovation and develop approaches to gathering and publishing data beyond test scores, such as student, staff, and parent surveys, career and college readiness benchmarks, and post-secondary outcomes.

does not account for differences in school performance beyond test scores and graduation rates.»