Sentences with phrase «controversial use of standardized test scores»

The new evaluations are based on a combination of teacher practice and student achievement, which includes the controversial use of standardized test scores.

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has just asked for a «pause» in implementation of a controversial new teacher evaluation system that uses student standardized test scores to assess teachers as well creation of a task force to study the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

The lawsuit centered on the system's use of value - added modeling (VAM), a controversial statistical method aimed at isolating a teacher's effectiveness based on their students» standardized test scores.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

It took more than five months and the intervention of a mediator to craft an evaluation that factors in standardized test scores, as well as Academic Growth Over Time, a controversial mathematical formula used to measure student progress.