Sentences with phrase «focused on standardized test data»

For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

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Currently the primary focus of accountability systems, using standardized tests, is to provide data on student and school performance so as to sort, rate, and rank the performance of students, schools, and districts.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

Their study focused on 10 of Edison's oldest schools — all operating for at least four years — and compared student test data from the Edison schools with data on schools in the surrounding school districts as well as with state and national norms on standardized tests.

Underlying the Big Data approach is a myopic focus on standardized test scores as the sole measure of student learning.