Sentences with phrase «biases of standardized tests»

This chapter begins with a discussion of the inherent biases of standardized tests.

In response to the implicit biases of standardized testing, Santi co-founded OpenSchool ePortfolio, a web and mobile app that allows students and teachers to create digital portfolios for authentic assessment and project - based learning.

We also recognized the bias of standardized tests against low - income students, and the negative influence of standardized testing on education.

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Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Standardized tests, he notes, are often biased and do not measure the kind of learning society needs.

Two major criticisms of standardized tests are that they are culturally biased and may not accurately reflect student learning.

I addressed the misuse and overuse of standardized tests, the false promise of better tests, how standardized tests narrow the curriculum, the way CPS and others only pretend to use multiple measures, bias in standardized tests, the failure of merit pay and other schemes to link teacher work to student scores, and the likelihood that the new national tests will be hugely expensive.

Whether algorithms can make such predictions or not, «in an era where we are looking at testing bias and social - emotional learning standards, the very definition of a good teacher being measured only by students» standardized test scores is faulty,» Vieth writes.

While the two - day event featured panels on perennial topics such as standardized testing, the test - optional movement and the college application process, it also addressed the promise of performance assessment and how to overcome bias in enrollment management.

The standardized tests the students take register racial and class bias, measure the lack of resources available to schools, and then provide cover for shutting them down.

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

Second, Flowers clearly does not know much about current standardized tests in that they are all constructed under contract with the same testing companies, they all include the same types of items, they all measure (more or less) the same set of standards... they all undergo the same sets of bias, discrimination, etc. analyses, and the like.

This hits schools with a diverse student body and high poverty levels the hardest, due to the effects of testing bias and the correlation between income and performance on standardized tests.

That is exactly the reason I used Item Response Theory to score and analyze responses — b / c it is the right tool for detecting «cultural bias» of that sort in standardized tests.