Sentences with phrase «external accountability tests»

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Unlike in the U.S., where school education has become much more standardized and driven by external requirements, like bureaucratic accountability, standardized testing and scripted teaching, Finnish schools are free to focus on «good» education that leads to excellence, engagement and ethics.

In other words, when responsibility and accountability were to external forces, tests did drive instruction, and not necessarily in positive ways.

Principals must use data, report and explain data to internal and external audiences, in support of data - driven decisions, which influence instruction and stimulate change.Assessment and Accountability Standardized testing is one element in the complete assessment of student progress, but no single test should serve as the sole criteria for a student's advancement in grade level, graduation or placement or serve as a punishment or reward for schools or those who staff them.

In recent years, the United States has focused heavily on external test - based accountability.

Doug Christensen, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their education.

In some cases, as in Finland, such practices largely obviate the need for testing and external accountability, because selection and preparation on the front end makes extensive monitoring on the back end unnecessary.

On the one side are Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein, who insist that the system is broken, that we need to infuse new providers and create greater levels of external testing and accountability.

Second, even those supporters who are open to external forms of accountability, or at least reporting outside the boundaries of the classroom or school, often claim that standardized tests, state assessments, and other external measures of student accomplishment do not provide sensitive indicators of the goals of curricula based upon whole language principles.

If whole language advocates were willing to play by the rules of external accountability, to assert that students who experience good instruction based upon solid principles of progressive pedagogy will perform well on standardized tests and other standards of performance, they would stand a better chance of gaining a sympathetic ear with the public and with policymakers.

Is Test - Driven External Accountability Effective?