Sentences with phrase «bubble test thinking»

We will not distort curriculum in order to encourage students to comply with bubble test thinking.

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So, think of the gas that comes back on the Breath Test is like looking for bubbles on the surface trying to see if someone's in the water.

In this article for District Administration, regular Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss tells the story of how schools are meeting the challenge of standardized tests and moving past the «bubble» exam; she also highlights how educators are overcoming fear and anxiety around assessing critical thinking and content.

And those straying off the cognitive reservation can also invoke Duncan's boss, whose March 2009 denunciation of «bubble tests» called for a new generation of assessments that would address not only «problem - solving and critical thinking» but also «entrepreneurship and creativity.»

Back in 2009, President Obama told an audience of business leaders that he wanted to see tests «that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem - solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.»

Finland's educational emphasis on critical thinking and creativity as opposed to bubbling in test score sheets is given as a reason for their competitiveness.

States should adopt and continuously improve rigorous learning standards — in both reading and math — and should require not fill - in - the - bubble tests, but rather aligned, high - quality tests that measure higher - order thinking skills.

For the first time, many teachers will have the state assessments they have longed for — tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classroom.

Administered online, PARCC is designed to require more writing and critical thinking than the old bubble tests.

That is why many people across the political spectrum support the work of 44 states to replace multiple choice «bubble» tests with a new test that helps inform and improve instruction by accurately measuring what children know across the full range of college and career - ready standards, and measures other skills, such as critical - thinking abilities.

These are not bubble - answer, multiple choice tests; rather, they emphasize critical thinking and problem - solving skills.