Sentences with phrase «beyond test scores as»

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.

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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.

It's also important because some Americans like to point to our supposedly high poverty rate as an excuse for our lackluster international performance on a variety of social indicators, from health - care outcomes to test scores and beyond.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

When we praise students for demonstrating their values, beliefs, and principles through actions, we remind them of their value as ethical human beings, beyond a grade or test score.

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.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

As districts — as well as states — now have the opportunity under ESSA to design accountability systems that consider measures beyond state standardized test scores, system leaders must understand the need for coherencAs districts — as well as states — now have the opportunity under ESSA to design accountability systems that consider measures beyond state standardized test scores, system leaders must understand the need for coherencas well as states — now have the opportunity under ESSA to design accountability systems that consider measures beyond state standardized test scores, system leaders must understand the need for coherencas states — now have the opportunity under ESSA to design accountability systems that consider measures beyond state standardized test scores, system leaders must understand the need for coherence.

One positive trend is states» expansion of their accountability systems beyond reading and math test scores to other subjects such as science, physical education, art and school climate.

Using multiple measures such as teacher evaluations, classroom observation and student test scores, TNTP rated about half the teachers in their 10th year or beyond as below «effective» in core instructional practices such as developing students» critical thinking.

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.

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.

But the more measures you use beyond just student test scores, such as student evaluations, and the more years of data you use for rating each teacher, the more accurate the evaluations become.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

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.

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.

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

TCTA was excited about this opportunity, as, in an attempt to provide a more holistic evaluation of school success beyond test scores, we have advocated for years for the state to incorporate a «learning environment index» into the state accountability system, comprised of indicators such as rates of out - of - field and inexperienced teacher assignments, class sizes, educator engagement survey results, and school climate survey results.

Proven Reforms: We support the expansion of sensible, research - based reforms, such as pre-K programs, full - day Kindergarten, small classes, parent involvement, strong, experienced teachers, a well - rounded curriculum and evaluation systems that go beyond test scores.

more clearly acknowledges that evidence of student learning must extend beyond standardized test scores to include other measures, such as demonstration of growth over time, parental feedback, performance on formative assessments, and demonstrations of engagement and self - efficacy; and

That is the average change in each test score attributable to the Tulsa pre-K program, above and beyond the gains that naturally occur as the child ages one year.

The Obama administration's 2011 waivers from particular NCLB provisions, known as ESEA flexibility, marked the beginning of a departure from this limited focus.6 By 2015, the U.S. Department of Education had approved 42 states and the District of Columbia for ESEA flexibility, giving them the opportunity to expand accountability measures beyond test scores and graduation rates.

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

Beyond their functional aspects, as mentioned the truck - like element puts you in a commanding position above all the little Corollas and Civics of the world, and it does score well in crash tests.