Sentences with phrase «focused on a single test score»

A psychological assessment is never focused on a single test score or number.

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Indeed, with our sometimes single - minded focus on test scores, we may well be subverting the message that my English teacher offered me long ago: that it is best to be purposeful about whatever we do.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

The single - subject focus was necessary in this case because the focus was on improving scores on a particular standardized test.

But its inflexible accountability provisions have become an obstacle to progress and have focused schools too much on a single test score.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

so to only look at test scores is too narrow of a focus to stand on its own merit as a single parameter for selecting a new home.