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She also notes that while psychology is often seen as a form of treatment, it can also be used to empower clients — for example, she concentrates primarily on sports psychology and in educational assessments to help kids with anxiety and learning disabilities.

As a public school, NCS is expected to adopt California's educational standards and to participate in Smarter Balanced Assessments.

The Research Institute supports projects dealing with essential contemporary educational issues such as attention - related disorders, trends in adolescent development and innovations in the high school curriculum, learning expectations and assessment, computers in education, the role of art in education, and new ways to identify and address different learning styles.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

She is doing PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto and works as an intern at the Richmond Hill Psychology Center, where she maintains «Psychological Resources for Parents» blog and helps with psycho - educational assessments and play therapy.

Project 2061, AAAS» long - term initiative to help Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology, will see materials from its educational assessment website reach wider audiences as two new groups adapt, translate, and share the assessment items.

As an adjunct associate professor at the University of New Mexico and having a son complete high school and college in the United States, she has seen enough of the American educational system to give a fair assessment.

It's easy to miss the scale of equity as an «issue,» because unlike assessment, curriculum, teacher pay, class sizes, educational technology, or any other persistently evergreen edu - choke point, equity never stops affecting.

Koretz focuses his research primarily on educational assessment and testing, particularly when it is used as a tool of education policy.

During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.

I particularly liked the way the assessments were built like little quiz shows — fun as well as educational.

Koretz's research focuses on educational assessment and policy, particularly high - stakes testing and its effect on schools, as well as the validity of the score gains.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

But those who look to value - added assessment as the solution to the problem of educational accountability are likely to be disappointed.

As an educational researcher, I have spent these house - bound days wondering why our schools» testing programs do not better resemble this winter's comprehensive assessments.

To learn more about assessment practices that work for English - language learners, see the resources provided by the Educational Testing Service and educational sites such as ¡ Colorín Colorado!.

HDP courses cover subjects as varied as language and literacy development, educational neuroscience, prevention science and practice, early childhood education policy, assessment, gender and relationships, moral and civic development, and development across cultures.

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind - numbing drill - and - kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

«We have no Y2K - related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be,» Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.

In order to meet the standards of federal legislation such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top ~ state departments of education have revamped a great deal of their educational infrastructure such as assessment programs and teacher certifications.

These principles serve as useful criteria, in other words, against which the specifics of this or any educational assessment system — should be judged:

And, as the cofounder of Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products, he knows a little something about effective leadership, as well.

Perhaps the greatest contribution of MI theory, I would argue, has been its role over the past decade as a counterbalance to an educational climate increasingly focused on high - stakes testing, such as the IQ test, the SAT, and the various state assessments that have emerged from the No Child Left Behind Act.

Education reforms in Poland in 1999 are often cited as the reason for its rapid educational improvements in international assessments.

The responsibility of bringing children into a new environment, not only new to the children but often to the teaching staff as well, can be a significant deterrent and that is before paperwork strikes, with risk assessments, county council requirements, and making sure that the destination itself can meet all the school's needs, both educational and social.

The franchisees are essentially running a small school, as they control educational budgets, deal with such aspects as staffing, programming, assessment and reviews, so experience in these areas is important.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Canada, due to a wide series of reforms in the past two decades, has emerged as a educational leader in international assessment rankings.

ACER draws on its expertise as a leader in educational research, assessment, and data collection and analysis to provide professional learning for educators and system leaders, policy makers, psychologists and human resources professionals, and others to support improved learning.

Companies such as Advantage Schools, Edison Schools, National Heritage, and a dozen or so smaller firms are seeking to actively manage entire public schools — hiring and firing; supervision, evaluation, and compensation; professional development; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; educational technology; plant management — everything.

The traditional educational concept of teaching to the middle will become all but extinct as the growth model approach becomes more prevalent and connected to teacher assessment.

Model student growth: As an integrated longitudinal system of assessments, ACT Aspire can provide an evolving picture of student growth and unique learning needs at various points in a student's educational career.

As part of her work, she has authored a number of research and white papers related to assessment, reliability, validity, forecasting accuracy, growth analysis, and standards mastery in both early childhood and K - 12 educational settings.

Our assessments are completed by conducting standardized assessments and surveys, interviewing the students, parents, and teachers as well as researching educational backgrounds, health and developmental information and conducting behavioral observations.

In this view, the teacher functions as an educational diagnostician who — using formative assessment techniques instead of a stethoscope — listens carefully to student thinking; processes it against what he or she knows about the subject at hand, how students learn, and the goals of a lesson.

Her study examines principals in diversifying suburban schools as well as their transformative leadership practices used to advocate the elimination of deficit thinking through the promotion of cultural competence and social justice so that all students have equitable educational opportunities in classrooms and on standardized assessments.

The answer is already clear, as research and experience has shown, standards - based approaches that have underpinned national exams and other assessment strategies, do not lead to sustained improvements in educational outcomes.

The award of Accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges indicates that an educational institution has conducted a rigorous, comprehensive self - assessment of its learning community as a whole and has hosted a Visiting Team of peer reviewers to evaluate and validate its alignment with the Standards for Accreditation in terms of its own stated educational goals.

The New ELL Toolkit — Potentially a Great Resource... but Beware of Misuse The U.S. Department of Education recently released a new, comprehensive English Learner Toolkit, which is a compilation of the latest research findings, current policy and resources or «tools,» such as sample surveys and assessments, for districts and schools to use in addressing the educational needs of their English learners.

Testing shouldn't be done for the sake of testing; instead, results from assessments should be used to make important educational decisions, such as identifying students with difficulties, allocating resources, determining what students have learned, and informing instruction.

Drawing on research and her own experiences as an educational consultant working on assessment issues, Brookhart describes what she thinks makes for powerful feedback — both in terms of how it's delivered and its underlying message.

What is important to highlight under this new model of educational assessment is that a school's overall quality will be determined as an aggregation of various criteria.

From parsing this research and reflecting on my own experience as an educational consultant working with elementary and secondary teachers on assessment issues, particularly the difference between formative assessment and grading, I have identified what makes for powerful feedback — in terms of how teachers deliver it and the content it contains.

As the head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, I believe that calling for Latino families to opt out of annual assessments that provide important information about our students» educational progress is at best unfair and at worst disgraceful.

We promote the best practices in school improvement, as it relates to research, educational assessment, curriculum design, and professional development.

To that end, Let's Go Learn provides a system of diagnostic assessment, profiling each student's individual math and reading abilities, as well as complementary supplemental instruction, all designed by trained educational specialists.

Study Island is a web - based program designed as a supplemental educational tool geared specifically to each individual state's standardized assessments.

Complex technology projects, such as the development of a statewide educational network to ensure Michigan students have access to the bandwidth needed to support classroom initiatives; expanded use of online learning for students and educators and delivery of online assessments; broad - based technology purchasing strategies; and a host of other capacity - building efforts have been positively impacted by Luke Wittum's leadership and involvement.

These assessments are intended to play a critical role in educational systems; provide administrators, educators, parents, and students with the data and information needed to continuously improve teaching and learning; and help meet the President's goal of restoring, by 2020, the nation's position as the world leader in college graduates.