Sentences with phrase «focus beyond test scores»

Gaithersburg Middle School parents want Weast's replacement to «focus beyond test scores, to create much more well - rounded students.»

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Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

Most states don't have robust alternative measurements for educational success beyond No Child Left Behind's narrow focus on math and reading test scores.

Our research approach also allows us to focus on student success beyond test scores.

Around that table, we were devising a better way to measure success for all kids, focused not on the inputs, but on the outcomes — and outcomes beyond just test scores.

«We think it's a much more honest, much more comprehensive, much more holistic [measure] that goes way beyond an artificial focus on one test score,» Duncan said.

Assistant Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock and her team at Carrollton - Farmers Branch ISD (CFBISD) fiercely focus on high achievement for all students, and this commitment to excellence goes far beyond test scores.

In short, focusing on non-cognitive abilities, those not measured by test scores, are more important in predicting success in high school and beyond.

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.

Making the assessments multidimensional (not relying exclusively on test scores), focusing on potential and not just performance, and looking at subjects beyond just reading and math could all prove beneficial.

The paper contributes to the literature by focusing on middle school teachers and by extending the analysis to student outcomes beyond test scores.

NAESP is always looking for ways to support principals in developing the leadership qualities that can help make them, and their entire school communities, more focused on accountability to the whole child — beyond test scores.

How do we measure success in a way that goes beyond test scores and academic assessments and focuses on the realization of human potential?

«High - quality #ECE has substantial effects on life outcomes beyond IQ or achievement test scores that are the focus of attention in popular discussions of public policy.»