Sentences with phrase «expanded beyond test scores»

It is the definition of success, however, that he said should be expanded beyond test scores and college prep.

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Expand the use of «accountability indexes» to include measures beyond test scores and to give schools credit for students well above and below the proficient level.

Expand: Comprehensive Assessment Assessment should be expanded beyond simple test scores to instead provide a detailed, continuous profile of student strengths and weaknesses.

By expanding the notion of student success, and moving it beyond a metric governed by test scores, authentic assessment puts the emphasis on student understanding.

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

The Whole Child, Whole Person Summit will raise awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

• Amendments to expand accountability beyond test scores and expand full - service community schools models.

The Obama administration's 2011 waivers from particular NCLB provisions, known as ESEA flexibility, marked the beginning of a departure from this limited focus.6 By 2015, the U.S. Department of Education had approved 42 states and the District of Columbia for ESEA flexibility, giving them the opportunity to expand accountability measures beyond test scores and graduation rates.