Sentences with phrase «by student test»

There was no new thinking, just more money to push states to engage in harmful policies, like evaluating teachers by student test scores.

And then, to add to their frustration, teachers are threatened with having their expertise measured by student test results on unproven standardized assessments.

In Michigan, StudentsFirst spent $ 955,000 last fall to push an education package that included evaluating teachers primarily by student test scores and restricting union bargaining rights (so issues like the new evaluation system would not be subject to negotiation).

While he has called for an overhaul of No Child Left Behind's narrowly - focused exams, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's policy prescriptions have stressed judging teachers by student test scores, in addition to classroom observations and other such measures.

Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public - school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores...

Measuring teachers by student test scores has been a costly failure.

As a nation we now have a toxic combination of a failed federal policy — No Child Left Behind — which made testing the be-all and end - all of schooling, and Bill Gates» misguided belief that teacher quality can be determined by student test scores.

(The conservative organization, headed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, supports the greater use of education technology, promotion of charter schools and measuring schools by student test performance.)

«As long as APPR [Annual Professional Performance Review, teacher evaluations informed by student test scores] is preserved, teachers will teach to the test and the stress they feel will inevitably be felt by students and families,» he says.

Your last letter acknowledged our mutual concern about the evaluation of teachers by student test data.

The caveat to this study, which will make it completely meaningless in the eyes of some, is that student outcomes were measured by student test scores.

Many teachers today, including NEA members, have been angry at the Obama administration for education reform policies that they say have harmed public education, including its support for the expansion of charter schools and the controversial evaluation of teachers by student test scores.

At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.

The UFT agreed to allow teachers to be evaluated by student test data in exchange for a promise of $ 700 million which has yet to reach city classrooms.

She also writes about the negative climate that New York's teachers and students now experience due to rating teachers by student test scores.

She is one of the co-authors of a principals» letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by more than 1,500 New York principals.

Under the law, for the first time, schools were required to test every student annually in math and reading in grades K - 8, and schools had to make «adequate yearly progress» — as measured by student test scores — or face increasingly heavy penalties.

In recent years, the consensus among policymakers and researchers has been that after the first few years on the job, teacher performance, at least as measured by student test - score growth, can not be improved.

Contrast this information with what we know about the relationship between credentials and classroom effectiveness, as measured by student test - score gains.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

What makes these elements different from measures based on student growth is that they may be gauging aspects of teacher quality that are not captured by student tests.

I also like program evaluations enabled by student testing, since it pays my bills.

Following the LAUSD meeting, the California state Board of Education voted on September 16th to create an online database to track teachers by students test scores.

Not exact matches

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

To find out, they developed a series of five experiments in which they asked student volunteers to plan for a variety of daunting goals — from acing a tough test to nailing a dream job interview — by mapping out each action they'd need to complete to succeed.

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

The factors of this test are outlined by the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office and are paraphrased below:

We believe we can level the playing field by giving every student access to effective, affordable, and engaging test prep tools.

Scott's office also pointed to a memo sent by Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to Runcie last month detailing how students who do not wish to take the test this spring can take them later in the fall or next spring, or they can take alternative assessments to satisfy graduation requirements.

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

An exception to the general aimlessness is Adam Gellin, a scholarship student who, by following all the rules and acing every test, hopes to ride a Rhodes scholarship to the top of the capitalist heap.

By comparing the six campuses that required statements of faith from all entering students with the three campuses that did not, the study was able to test whether a more «insular» setting actually served better to protect the plausibility of traditional beliefs.

Not too long ago, a student asked me during a final exam if he could write an essay on a topic of his own choosing rather than on one of the three possibilities provided by the test.

«We have been informed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health that one of our students who traveled abroad over the winter break has tested positive for the Zika virus.

For example, the Theological Student Inventory developed by the American Association of Theological Schools and the Educational Testing Service is being used more and more to enable students to assess and reappraise their motivations for entering the ministry.

The student of comparative religion begins with the postulate that it is possible to understand a religion other than one's own.44 In our day, this postulate is being tested — urgently, severely, by our concrete human situation.

Came final exam time, I tested how well these testings of student prejudices by primary sources had taken hold.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

It should be noted that the Student Manager said that «he had, without the knowledge of, or instruction from, any USC student - athlete, coach, staff member or administrator, deflated those game balls after they had been tested and approved by officials prior to the game.Student Manager said that «he had, without the knowledge of, or instruction from, any USC student - athlete, coach, staff member or administrator, deflated those game balls after they had been tested and approved by officials prior to the game.student - athlete, coach, staff member or administrator, deflated those game balls after they had been tested and approved by officials prior to the game.»

The honor was awarded to all the students that placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT).

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.