Sentences with phrase «controversial use of student test scores»

King's comments came as the Education Department released its «testing action plan» over the weekend, which includes easing up on the controversial use of student test scores in the Obama administration's final teacher preparation rule, expected in December.

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Chicago — Mastery learning has proved its worth as a method of teaching reading, especially to students whose proficiency is below average, but educators who use the sometimes - controversial method should not regard it as a «quick fix» for poor basic - skills test scores.

Pressure to improve teacher evaluations deepened Thursday, when two separate Los Angeles education groups endorsed the use of student test scores as one measure to review instructors — a controversial element that many unions have fought.

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.

A controversial new teacher evaluation system is under negotiation that will include the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.

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.

Supporters of VAM, a controversial statistical tool that uses student test scores to come up with estimates of teacher effectiveness, tried to frame the positive IMPACT studies as proof of VAM's merit.

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.

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

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.