Sentences with phrase «current standardized testing system»

Jessica Tang, President of the Boston Teacher's Union, said the bill's supporters believe in high standards and accountability, but the current standardized testing system is not working.

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Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

A True TestWhat is a true measure of our students success?In this world of standardized testing ~ does our current system of evaluation in education...

There is broad agreement that states» current accountability systems are overly dependent on standardized tests that do not (and can not) capture all the skills that students need to acquire, and that have sometimes encouraged teachers to engage in harmful curriculum narrowing and «test prep.»

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

In this world of standardized testing ~ does our current system of evaluation in education mirror the real world ~ where students will spend the rest of their lives working and striving for success?

The new system, which requires test - takers to sit at computer terminals and answer questions electronically, is likely to revolutionize the whole standardized - testing field, making current paper - and - pencil methods obsolete, those working on the idea believe.

And that will be easier to recognize than under the current system, which is haphazard evaluation, or under a system which gives an inordinate amount of emphasis to the standardized tests, which is clearly an inaccurate measure.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

The consortium intends to use the eventual system to press the state to change the current high stakes standardized tests to a system that actually benefits the learning of our growing diversity of learners.

And it would be most unfortunate if attempts to improve teacher accountability exacerbated one of the most criticized aspects of current accountability systems, namely the overreliance on standardized tests.

The problem with most current systems is they measure growth by using standardized test scores in a few academic subjects, usually math and reading, which are not a very accurate or comprehensive way to check on overall student progress.

Overall, as Barbara Madeloni, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), put it, while the current system is not working, Bills S. 308, H. 2860 and H. 2844 would provide a «blueprint for us to think imaginatively about what we can do for our schools» without so many millions of teaching hours being devoted to standardized testing.

The outcome of that process and of the House's parallel bill which left committee already and which failed to adopt a Democratic sponsored amendment to require states to adopt «college and career ready standards» and to use standardized test results in accountability systems, will play a significant role in the current policy environment that is best summarized as «test and punish».

Here's the Friday, January 11 letter in which LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy describes his concerns about California State Superintendent Tom Torlakson's recommendation to reduce standardized testing: It's not that Deasy opposes all changes to the current testing and accountability system.