Sentences with phrase «care about test scores»

«We care about test scores as a way to measure whether kids are on the right track today, but what we ultimately care about is kids being happy and healthy, being good citizens and having access to good jobs,» said Taylor.

If you mostly care about test scores, private school choice is not for you.

Why did voters, incumbents, and potential challengers care about test scores in 2000 but not in 2002, or in 2004?

«When the standardized tests begin to test thinking, I'll care about the test scores... but it's not what we want to be doing for kids.

But we shouldn't only care about test scores.

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

Not exact matches

It's producing kids who care only about grades and test scores.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

In their write - ups, some economists toss in a paragraph conceding that we care about other stuff besides test scores and earnings, but (lacking data points) those disclaimers tend to fizzle away without a trace.

Despite the centrality of test scores, there is surprisingly little rigorous research linking them to the long - term outcomes we actually care about.

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.

If they are going to pick the school choice winners and losers based on test scores, then test scores need to be strongly predictive of other things we care about.

Our parents care way more about that than PARCC or NAEP or any other test score.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

In other words, whatever the limitations of standardized tests may be, test - based value - added scores do, in fact, provide valuable information about the things most people care most about.

But if what you really care about is raising test scores, you'd be pushing no - excuses charter schools.

Researchers care about next August (when test scores come in, because they can show achievement gains).

There are a range of tools that researchers could use here — value - added measures that distinguish between the level of a school's test scores and gains of students on test scores (gains probably are what parents care about, and levels are a noisy signal of gains), school climate surveys, teacher observation instruments, descriptions of curricula.

They understand you,» she says, adding that at Icahn, «they care more about the students than the students» test scores.»

But the more this degree attainment is divorced from knowledge attainment (and test scores), the weaker this effect might become over time (unless employers really just care about conscientiousness, which may very well be the case).

If you live in a state that emphasizes accountability, let your local representatives know that you care about more than test scores.

Education reformers don't care about teacher credentials or experience, because some economists say they don't raise test scores.

Regardless of what our students may have scored on the WISC test, they are self starters who care deeply about connecting with the world around them.

And I've walked into lower - income schools around the country where test scores are posted right in the front entryway and the message is very clear: That we care about you as a person and everything, but what really matters is the score that you post in April.

Since I'm so good at prognostication: I predict that state test scores, in New York and elsewhere, will continue to be used as a basis for important policy decisions, despite the fact that test scores tell us just a little bit about the things we care about.

If you care about benchmarks, on the Quadrant benchmark test, the YotaPhone 2 managed to score 22,751, which is on par with last year's HTC One M8, though it doesn't stand up to the 34,700 points the One M9 tallied.