What strategies from Chapter 4 do you think might help
cut test preparation, without losing student performance?
Not exact matches
Moreover, prominent voices in teacher
preparation continue to question whether clear -
cut measures of student outcomes — such as graduation rates or
test performance — are legitimate measures of educational performance.
As
preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding
cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills
tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruitment.
The bill required teacher
preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher
cut scores on standardized
tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.