Sentences with phrase «by teaching to the test»

««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need, and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The English education system is blighted by teaching to the test.

Between the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the new «mandate» that all high school juniors must take the new, Common Core - aligned, SAT, public schools are being forced to revamp their instructional programs so that they can fulfill their duties by teaching to the test.

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By 2007, he had observed kids teaching themselves to e-mail and play games so often that he wanted to test the capability of what appeared to be a self - organizing learning system.

I was amazed that anyone could think we believe that fossils are «put there by God to test our faith» and wondered what other nonsense our children might be taught at school.

Bill Nye is right; we are dumbing - down our children by failing to teach them science, failing to teach them deductive reasoning, and failing to challenge them to test their world - view by considering all the tangible evidence.

While reading Vincent of Lerins's fifth - century aids to remembering (Commonitory) I gained the essential hermeneutical foothold in defining ecumenical teaching under the threefold test of catholicity as «that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all» (quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est).

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

It was Galileo who initially tested the boundaries of the Dual Revelation Theory by proposing that, contrary to the teachings of the church, the earth revolved around the sun, rather than the sun revolving around the earth.

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.»

The Livonia campus is home to one of the most advanced teaching kitchens in the country, which will be put to the test by this year's CMC candidates.

From methods taught in the classroom to techniques used by major retailers to bring in the big bucks, I've tested them all to see what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling handmade at craft fairs.

My daughter already had a love of learning, and I am grateful that the Waldorf School preserves and promotes that by eschewing «teaching to the tests» and instead fostering the creativity and imagination of the students while celebrating the sense of discovery in learning.

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By definition, teaching students to do well on those tests emphasizes memorization and often involves covering only the material that is measured on those tests.

By countering common fertility myths and teaching the facts about prenatal testing, Trying Again explores in detail all the pertinent procedures and measures to create the best possible conditions for a healthy baby.

Ditching my life of disposable leisure, I opted to test the Fuzzi Bunz brand cloth pocket diapers from Be By Baby, 1654 W. Roscoe St., 773-404-2229, where Rosing teaches a cloth diapering class.

The questions in this quiz are written by a teacher with 30 years» experience of teaching High School Biology, and they will put you to the test!

Sadly, it appears that the tests have been designed by people who have little comprehension of what it is to teach in a school environment.

The committee also hear about teachers» «exasperation over the lack of time and resources given to professional development training in order to adequately prepare lesson plans before teaching and testing their students,» according to a press release issued by his office Thursday.

This must not be undermined by continuing with the system of league tables and unnecessary floor targets which can lead to teaching to the test, resulting in all creativity being knocked out of schools.»

Cuomo's Common Core Overhaul: A task force created by Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a report Thursday which found that the state made a number of mistakes in its implementation of Common Core learning standards and recommended reducing the tendency to «teach to a test,» giving shorter tests, and not linking test results to teacher evaluations until the 2018 - 2019 school year.

The damage caused by the pressure to teach to the test will now be added to by pressure to enhance teacher assessment results for league table purposes.

Ajiboye, who vowed to revolutionise the teaching profession, said that the council had been contracted by the Kaduna State Government to organise the test for teachers in its secondary schools.

The new spelling and grammar test for eleven year olds has been prepared to an excellent standard, as set out in this technical paper, and the new provision for teaching multiplication tables by the age of eight, for most pupils as crucial to success in maths as phonics are to success in English, has not attracted the widespread criticism that our opponents expected.

To test the efficacy of an intervention including buprenorphine, a medication that reduces opioid cravings and helps to prevent relapse to opioid use, the Yale team — lead by D'Onofrio and Dr. David Fiellin, professor of medicine — conducted a randomized trial of more than 300 opioid - dependent individuals in an urban teaching hospitaTo test the efficacy of an intervention including buprenorphine, a medication that reduces opioid cravings and helps to prevent relapse to opioid use, the Yale team — lead by D'Onofrio and Dr. David Fiellin, professor of medicine — conducted a randomized trial of more than 300 opioid - dependent individuals in an urban teaching hospitato prevent relapse to opioid use, the Yale team — lead by D'Onofrio and Dr. David Fiellin, professor of medicine — conducted a randomized trial of more than 300 opioid - dependent individuals in an urban teaching hospitato opioid use, the Yale team — lead by D'Onofrio and Dr. David Fiellin, professor of medicine — conducted a randomized trial of more than 300 opioid - dependent individuals in an urban teaching hospital.

In a series of experiments with middle school and high school students, Blikstein is trying to understand the best ways to teach math and science by going beyond relatively primitive tools like multiple - choice tests to assess students» knowledge.

Fortunately the same ideas predict very concrete new phenomena, a whole new world of particles that have to be accessible at the LHC and so [we have this] wonderful idea that we've been entranced by for 25 years, and the kind of the thing that Einstein dreamed of, unifying the forces, and now is the time of testing [whether these] ideas have been on the right track; whether nature has, with all these hands, has been teaching us or just teasing us.

Tough bodyweight moves train the whole body by teaching it how to pull, push raise and lift itself, and are true tests of ability, endurance and functionality.

In order for you to fully benefit from the practical application lessons taught by Dr. Kalish, it is important that you practice by communicating the techniques with your patients, test them, test yourself, and implement any recommended lifestyle changes if you are in the mentorship program, or complete the business plan and all other worksheet assignments in the My Practice Plan course.

I am in the process of teaching myself how to use all of the amazing features Lightroom has to offer (this is definitely an on - going project... there is simply so much to learn) plus testing out some fun presets from Dreamy Presets (I mean how could they not be awesome when they were created by a blogger?!).

Permit me to close with a telling quote contained in the text by Malcolm X which has ostensibly withstood the test of time: «America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynchings, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self - hate and self - doubt.»

Enacted in 2001, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), for instance, emphasized academic competence by requiring that prospective teachers either graduate with a major in the subject they are teaching, have credits equivalent to a major, or pass a qualifying test showing competence in the subject.

The evidence from Florida also suggests that the gains produced by such an accountability system are real indicators of improvement in learning, and not simply teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

By most accounts, a few charter schools began testing their youngsters more frequently, with the idea that teachers could use those interim results to inform their teaching.

Given the current test score fetishization, sophisticated tracking technologies like those employed by OHSU presages the day when every micro teacher and learner signal that can be captured will be quantified and standardized, leading to teaching as a paint - by - numbers activity.

It is possible that the critics of testing are right, that some or even all of the gains measured only by state tests are the product of teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

Teachers can help ease student stress by emphasizing that tests are tools to identify future areas of instruction that can be addressed by the teacher, or «what the teacher may still need to teach (or re-teach).»

Yet at present it is impossible to ensure that the child has actually been taught the material tested by the exam or that the exam in fact captures the breadth of knowledge that the student should have.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.

Students of teachers who had completed an online professional - development course about fractions made test - score gains that were similar to those of students taught by teachers who had taken the same course in person.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

For example, a quasi-experimental study by the Educational Testing Service found that teachers with a high level of engagement in a large - scale mentoring program (California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers) improved both teaching practices and student achievement, producing an effect size equivalent to half a year's growth (Thompson, Goe, Paek, and Ponte, 2004).

In addition to examining the effect of teacher gender on students» test - score performance, I examined teacher perceptions of a student's performance and student perceptions of the subject taught by a particular teacher.

Regardless of whether or not teachers agree with each other on pedagogy, most teachers I speak to would feel comforted by the idea that teachers had a hand in developing, testing, and giving feedback for the standards they taught.

That focus has led to a teach to the test mentality and tactics that have classrooms in five - by - five rows, students sitting up straight, filling out worksheet after worksheet.

Data Wise: A Step - by - Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders.

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

Worse, they can result in unintended responses by schools, such as teaching only what is to be assessed and withholding less able students from testing.