Sentences with phrase «current assessment practices»

These might include help with designing innovative scheduling to provide time for principals, teachers and students to use assessment data, support in developing sound building - wide assessment practices, and support for audits of current assessment practices.

The report rightly highlights problems with current assessment practices in some settings including excessive workload for teachers and an inefficient use of teacher time (such as the example of a learning journey with 15 photographs of a child putting on their coat).

Q5: Given this conversation, what needs to be on our STOP DOING list for current assessment practices?

While education advocates are focused on closing achievement gaps and preparing every student for success, Michigan Assessment Consortium members believe neither will be possible if the education system perpetuates current assessment practices, which focus more on documenting success or failure than on supporting learning.

The group calls for a complete overhaul of current assessment practices (New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, 2007).

Q1: How do our current assessment practices enhance or kill student motivation?

As educators, teacher - librarians can make the connections between the «learning to learn» culture expressed in the guideline document Together for Learning, and the Ontario curriculum, school success planning and current assessment practices.

In our special section, scholars Thomas Guskey and Jay McTighe, W. James Popham, and Thomas Guskey and Lee Ann Jung consider three current assessment practices that every educator needs to know more about: preassessment, standardized testing, and computerized grading systems.

What are the current assessment practices in your classroom, at your grade level, and throughout your school?

Freedom to Fail — Much of our current assessment practices are still anchored in antiquated grading of practice.

Given the large and increasing size of the ELL student population in Arizona, the current focus on testing and accountability, and the documented problems in current assessment practices, improvement in instruments and procedures is critical.

If you took a sampling of the current assessment practices, including grade - books, you would see a variety of system in place.

Best Practices, supra n. 6, at 239 («[E] xcept perhaps in legal writing and research courses, the current assessment practices used by most law teachers are abominable.»).