We all can see where focusing on outputs got us: In education we've
focused on test results (outputs) and ended up with some high - scoring kids who don't know how to apply what they've learned to the world at large (outcome), like how the reasons leading to the American Revolution are similar to those that led to the Arab Spring.
Like most public schools, too, it is sadly
focused on test results, with a selection seemingly designed by sales rankings.
Much of the advertising around BASIS schools is highly
focused on test results on the OECD exam, SAT exam, and AP exams, as well as college acceptances.
Adult campaigners grumble that
focusing on test results is at the expense of «children's happiness and joy of learning».
The educational establishment has been in a decade - long revolt against NCLB's onerous performance requirements and obsessive
focus on test results.
«We are pleased to see Ofsted agreeing with us that there is too much
focus on test results rather than learning.
Not exact matches
Managers of ordinary ability,
focusing solely
on acquisition possibilities meeting these
tests, have achieved excellent
results in recent decades.
Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it
on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my
results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back
results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706
results for this sample
test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply
focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
While most people
focus on the physical
test results, the Wonderlic puts the mental makeup of draft prospects to the
test.
Inconsistency, a poor defence, a friendly fixture list — these arguments have been crushed by impressive
results in the most
testing period of the season thus far — so instead the
focus is placed
on the fact we are yet to face our two most likely rivals — Chelsea and Manchester City.
Challenge Success believes that our increasingly competitive world has led to tremendous anxiety about our children's» futures and has
resulted in a high pressure, myopic
focus on grades,
test scores and performance.
Instead of
focusing on the final performance
results of a
test or paper (in other words, the grades), talk about the learning and revision process and improvement over time.
«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the performance of schools in the round and not solely
on the basis of narrowly
focused test and examination
results.»
Jones expects that the companies offering fMRI lie detection will likely conduct new
tests «to approximate real - life conditions» for lying, and
focus on issues such as whether lie detection
results vary depending
on the age of the subject.
However, Sandel et al.
focus on results that support their hypothesis, rather than
testing it against its most obvious competitor: that endemic species occur in places where contemporary patches of climatically appropriate habitat are small.
Part III of this review will
focus on BHRT serum and 24 Hour Urine
test results in relation to male patients.
That's why I like to use the KISS method (keep it simple, stupid), and
focus on the supplements that have been
tested and re-
tested for maximum
results.
To give some perspective
on CRP if you eat a truly healthy diet
focusing on healthy proteins, lots of veggies, spices, teas, red wine, and other antioxidants, and relatively low in overall carbohydrates... I've had my CRP
tested twice, and my
results came in at 0.1 and 0.4, indicating a VERY LOW amount of inflammation in my body as a whole.
I think we're
focusing quite heavily in this study
on exam
results because previous studies have found the link between
test scores or exam
results and the gross domestic product of an economy or the vitality of a country's society.
When we look at the
results of a
test, rather than
focusing on the final grade with our students, we should ask:
While realizing the importance of the CMT
results to the school and its future, Boxwood said that the
focus on the
test can overshadow the progress teachers see in class every day.
Unlike previous studies, which
focused on MCAS
results, the MIT report tracked performance
on Advanced Placement and SAT
tests.
We could have
focused only
on 8th - grade
results, as Hanushek et al. did, but in doing so we would have greatly reduced the number of
test results on which we were doing the calculations for school districts.
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and
Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developm
Focus on Results (scores
on standardized
tests and other objective measures are coupled with a
focus on character developm
focus on character development).
With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that
focus not just
on test scores but
on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor
results.
The first screen would
focus on student outcomes —
test scores, growth metrics, and other gauges that demonstrate that the school is in fact getting excellent
results.
The
result is that we get a homogeneous set of schools that are narrowly
focused on improving
test outcomes.
A direct
result of standards in
tests in countries like America is increased
focus on accountability, particularly teachers.
As a
result, policymakers in many states have attempted to level the playing field by
focusing on improvements in
test scores.
More recently, we've seen evidence that a knowledge -
focused curriculum can lead to better
results on Common Core - aligned
tests, which New York began using two years ago.
Unlike the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely
on testing results, this new accountability system uses multiple measures to determine performance and progress and emphasizes equity by
focusing on student group performance.
In Part I, this year's
focus is
on the latest
results from two international
tests, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives
resulted in simply more
focus on testing?
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.
For years, efforts to improve K - 12 schools have
focused on developing more rigorous academic standards,
testing students, holding teachers and administrators accountable for students»
test results, and creating new charter schools.
«Parents Across America believes that a decade of NCLB's incessant
focus on high - stakes
tests has
resulted in the narrowed curriculum that we have today.
Cynthia — I certainly agree with most of your comment, though my perspective comes from the lack of validity of the
results due to premature implementation of common core
tests before common core instruction is adequately implemented across CA, rather than
focused on the problems with initiation of technology - based large scale
tests.
This unnatural
focus on testing produced perverse but predictable
results: it narrowed the curriculum; many districts scaled back time for the arts, history, civics, physical education, science, foreign language, and whatever was not
tested.
At Roberts, an alternative high school in Salem, Oregon, the
focus is not only
on boosting
test scores but also
on raising up the whole student — and the
result is that academic success follows.
The tendency to casually
focus on student achievement, especially given the
testing system's heavy emphasis
on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from
results - driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control.
As a
result, the
tests tend to leave the best teachers — those with wider teaching repertoires who are able to move students beyond the basics — at a disadvantage, while putting pressure
on the entire school system to
focus on low - level skills.
He suggested that the more accurate conversation would
focus on whether the interpretation and use of the
test results is valid.
The Wallace Foundation has produced study
results indicating that when, (a) principals
focus their efforts
on improving instruction, (b) teachers trust the principal, and (c) the principal works to develop shared leadership within the building, higher scores
on standardized
tests of achievement
result.
To summarize, teachers use data to identify key concepts (power standards), cyclically present these concepts throughout the entire school year during warm - up time, assess their students bi-weekly
on Progress Monitoring
Tests, and provide
focused intervention based
on the
results of these PMTs.
PARCC, a coalition of 26 states and administrative divisions, will
focus on an approach that is designed eliminate the end term
tests with assessments administered several times during the year
resulting in an average final score.
As teachers, if we
focus on the outcome of standardized
tests, we may fear the
results.
Specifically, each of four evaluations of U.S. family income support programs found substantially larger
test score increases per $ 1,000 of public expenditure than
resulted from programs specifically aimed at improving educational outcomes by
focusing on school readiness.
It was a positive move, minister said, away from simply
focusing on attainment, and would provide a very real context for later
test results.
A strict
focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students
on state reading and math
tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the
results (2015).
But teachers who took part in the
focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily
on standardized
test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.