Sentences with phrase «fairer testing systems»

However, according to FairTest, a nationally respected organization working to ensure the development of fairer testing systems, «The penalties apply only to schools receiving Title I funds.

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«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

thus this practice will end up costing the taxpayer much more money in the long run, while perpetuating the handing out of jobs through the political patronage system, rather than a more fair civil service testing system which assures better qualified people being placed in the positions.

Most teachers, he said, are opposed to being judged based on student test scores and believe that the current seniority system is fair and necessary.

But let us be clear: Despite what you might hear from opt - outers and other critics, U.S. standards, tests, and accountability systems are all dramatically stronger, fairer, and more honest than they were a decade ago.

IELTS is the International English Language Testing System, devised as a fair way to test English - language ability, regardless of your ability or cultural background.

IELTS is the International English Language Testing System, devised as a fair way to test English - language ability, regardless of your ability or c...

Nevertheless, ESSA provides an opportunity for a fresh start, and system leaders can capitalize on the flexibility in the new law to make changes in the short and long run to develop a system of better, fairer, and fewer tests.

We must end high - stakes testing, and instead develop a system based on multiple forms of measurement that is fair for all.

To base tests on what is actually taught in school would not only be fairer to disadvantaged students than the current Kafkaesque system of testing, it would enable such students to gradually narrow the gap in their general knowledge and vocabulary.

State experts, local educators, postsecondary faculty and community members from the PARCC states conduct rigorous reviews of every item and passage being developed for the PARCC assessment system to ensure all test items are of the highest quality, aligned to the standards, and fair for all student populations.

The Field Test is a trial run of the assessment system that helps ensure the assessments are valid, reliable, and fair for all students.

So, it would seem that a system using student test scores to calculate how much «value» teachers add to their students» learning would be fairer.

By forming NYCEDF, MORE and its allies intend to increase grassroots support for a fair contract and to organize effective opposition to the new teacher evaluation system imposed on city teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and students.

If all testing companies would clearly explain that their reading comprehension tests are tests of knowledge, and if they would explain — as the ACT's Chrys Dougherty does — that the only way to prepare for them is to build broad knowledge, then we could begin to create a fair and productive assessment and accountability system.

So what can OSSE do to help make the system fairer and make school more engaging — not to mention more effective at raising those all - important test scores?

A second National Academy report questions the use of test scores to evaluate teachers, noting that such scores «have not yet been adequately studied for the purposes of evaluating teachers and principals,» and «face substantial practical barriers to being successfully deployed in a personnel system that is fair, reliable, and valid.»

Yet we are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing New York standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee said in a statement.

In Pencils Down we take the high - stakes tests to task, deconstruct the damage they cause to our education system, highlight their inaccuracy as tools of measurement, and offer visionary forms of assessment that are more authentic, democratic, fair, and accurate.

And as Kevin Welner and William Mathis of University of Colorado at Boulder remind us in this policy memo, what we need is «sustained, fair, adequate and equitable investment in all our children sufficient to provide them their educational birthright...» That will not happen while high stakes testing is driving our education system.

Weingarten has always embraced teacher accountability in theory, but with the caveat that the system has to be fair, after which she adds that there's no way to guarantee that linking student progress to testing will be fair because tests don't take subjective factors into account, nor would allowing subjective evaluations by principals be fair.

Examples of successful use of such assessments include the New York Performance Standards Consortium (see Attachment 7 — Fair Test, «New York Performance Standards Consortium Fact Sheet» and Attachment 8 — FairTest, «A Better System for Evaluating Students and Schools»).

Educator, poet and fellow education blogger, Poetic Justice, addresses the insidious and damaging impact of the corporate education reform industry's notion that standardized test results should be a part of a fair, appropriate and effective teacher evaluation system.

However, it's fair to say that my test wasn't a great example of how chaotic the game can get and thus during heavy action the system will undoubtedly struggle a little more, meaning graphical tweaks will be needed to get it running smoother, unless a console level framerate with beautiful graphics is what you prefer.

The # 1 reason for the REC system is so that all the ships and weapons have a fair round of testing, this is an alpha after all.

It has certain requirements for play in order to make it fair, such as an artificial level assignment and a cap on your party's base strength (via a point system), but in adding these requirements it allows you to test your skills instead of your grinding ability.

comment # 8 from Mika illustrates one of the purposes of the shoot - many fairly reasonable people WILL think that shooting down a satellite is a «fair test» for an anti ballistic missile system.

I think it's also fair to say that our existing system doesn't necessarily actually do a great job of testing whether you are intimately familiar with the laws of your state.

Performing outdoor landscape irrigation audits which included testing sprinkler and drip irrigation systems to point out deficiencies, and creating a watering schedule for customers * Meeting customers at their homes and place of business to answer inquiries on water conservation measures and practices * Serves as an AMWC representative at community fairs or trade shows to promote water conservation * Assist Conservation Manager and GIS / IM Administrator with Excel and ArcGIS projects.

The damage to children of a system that incentivises the coaching of children by an alienating parent to make false allegations against the other parent, is greater than the damage that would be inflicted by allowing a fair system of tested evidence, or a system that risked occasional child abuse.

«It would be a Fair Housing law violation for a Realtor to make a judgment call about a school, so we direct them to visit school system Web sites for test scores and school ratings sites to find out for themselves which schools they want their kids to attend,» Carter said.