Parents interviewed by NJ Advance Media and those who have testified in public have commonly listed teacher opposition as a contributing factor in their own
concerns about the tests.
«Can educators share their legitimate
concerns about the tests with parents?»
Other teachers» unions also have
concerns about the tests, but were not involved in the boycott.
Some parents have
concerns about tests of these nature being performed on their baby.
Doing so may help reveal your child's
concerns about the test.
Many Democrats are also
concerned about the tests, and Speaker Carl Heastie has said he won't judge parents who have their kids boycott the tests.
Many Democrats are also
concerned about the tests, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has said he won't judge parents who have their kids boycott the tests.
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The notion of testing preschool aged children is met by many educators with
concerns about test validity, quality, fairness, and effectiveness of assessment.
Some rich folks get
concerned about testing, President Barack Obama makes a speech, says there is too much testing, and states start rolling back not just testing but also the evaluation systems tied to it.
Many of you have made
your concerns about testing clear.
There are legitimate
concerns about test quality; the noisiness and variability of calculations; the fact that metrics don't account for the impact of specialists, support staff, or shared instruction; and the degree to which value - added calculations rest upon a narrow, truncated conception of good teaching.
Yes, the Department is
concerned about test security.
(
This concern about tests is not leveled at NAEP, which was used in the comparisons above, but instead applies to the tests states use for accountability purposes).
Noah Bookman, the chief accountability officer for the districts, said he understood
the concerns about testing.
The biggest
concern about testing for social - emotional skills is that it typically relies on surveys asking students to evaluate recent behaviors or mind - sets, like how many days they remembered their homework, or if they consider themselves hard workers.
Many Democrats are also
concerned about the tests, and Speaker Carl Heastie has said he won't judge parents who have their kids boycott the tests.
Parents, teachers and administrators are increasingly
concerned about the testing that is taking place — and how the testing is being used — in New York State.
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«There is
concern about the test results — but just as California is in better shape implementing Common Core than many other states, I think we have also been preparing for exactly this issue,» he said.
Regarding
concerns about testing, he added, «They should love this plan, frankly, because the schools would have the ability to design their accountability systems, flexibly.
In response to
concerns about test validity, state leaders have agreed to a full review of the assessments before the results are used for teacher evaluations or school grades.
At the same time, MAP has raised
concerns about test fatigue and the need for professional development to ensure the results are being used correctly to improve teaching practice.
«For affluent parents who are
concerned about the test scores, they have an exit strategy — their exit strategy is to hire a private tutor,» Ms. Moskowitz said.
Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally
concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.
In an effort to address
concerns about testing time, state education officials voted in June to shrink time spent on annual exams from three days per subject to two days each.
If I have to be so
concerned about a test score, I can not address the needs of individual students.»
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he is
concerned about testing too, but he has written he «strongly believes» in annual tests as an educational tool.
District leaders explain this policy is due to constraints on the budget, and not
concern about test scores.
Instead, after the test express
your concerns about the testing event to your employer (for example, a detailed letter to your company or by an agreed upon grievance procedure if you are a member of labor organization).
The Joint Committee on Human Rights reported
concerns about the test itself, and then that the exceptions proposed were insufficient to protect the rights of children involved in litigation, and thus likely to violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Not exact matches
On Oct. 15, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an investigative report that claims the company does not use its own «revolutionary» blood
testing technology, called Edison, for the majority of lab
testing, largely because of
concerns about accuracy.
Even the company's own employees have
concerns about Theranos» blood
tests.
«You are so
concerned about passing this military - like
test that you actually start to lose your department's operational conditions,» an employee said.
The
test also found phenolphthalein, which was taken out of U.S. markets over
concerns about carcinogens.
«My
concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and
tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought
about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian said.
But in 2013 the FDA announced that it was
concerned about «the public health consequences of inaccurate results» from these mail - in spit
tests and banned them.
A few months ago I took an emotional intelligence
test (which didn't leave me feeling particularly good
about myself) and realized that social responsibility isn't a strong suit for me, especially where the environment is
concerned.
With a simple cheek swab
test, find out
about your dog's breed composition, unique personality traits, and genetic health
concerns.
Not only will QE feed
concerns within the Eurozone, but the eurozone's neighbors (whose economies are highly impacted by the ECB's actions) are
about to experiment real
tests.
Ducey said in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised
concerns about the company's ability to safely
test its technology in Arizona.
Ducey told company CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised
concerns about the company's ability to safely
test its technology in Arizona.
The only
concern for me is trading it as the main salesforce on Wall Street will spin its own narrative to promote its needs.The gold / currency crosses will be key indicators to the
testing of the thesis.But the SNB is the most amazing financial act I have ever read
about.
Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates
about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises
concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal
testing.»
Today's commonplaces of animal rights discourse —
concern about the factory farms, the unnecessary lab experiments on monkeys, the cosmetics
tested on rabbits — are familiar because of Singer and the tremendous influence of his book.
Regarding your apparent primary
concern about the unavailability of the original manuscripts, rigorous and skeptical
testing of the consistency of the extant earliest copies of those originals has not jeopardized their accuracy.
An imaginative government
concerned about global warming could
test this concept.
At first I am not primarily
concerned about the marital status of the parents and I do not subject them to any sort of
test to ascertain their degree of practising or not practising of the faith.
Wuthnow is most
concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized
tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.
With reason also comes a greater degree of self - consciousness
about the procedures used to arrive at and
test the validity of statements
concerning religion, morality, and nature.