Sentences with phrase «focuses on test scores at»

The peer - reviewed paper focuses on test scores at public middle schools near a state boundary.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

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At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores, and performance, leaving little time for kids to develop the necessary skills to become resilient, ethical, and motivated learners.

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

Parents should, of course, help kids reduce the sources of stress — not over-scheduling them or excessively focusing on grades and test scores — but they can also dramatically reframe stress, away from avoiding it at all costs to trying to manage the bad and leverage the good.

In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

The research focused specifically on cell phone use behind the wheel, and it found that people who scored highest on multitasking tests do not frequently engage in simultaneous driving and cell - phone use — probably because they can better focus on one thing at a time.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardized tests.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

But it is precisely the focus on teacher evaluation — and whether it is connected to student test scores — that is at the center of the most hotly contested education policy debates.

Because candidates either run for election in every precinct or do not run at all, we focused only on district test scores.

Course for Families Enhances Math Test Scores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suScores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student suscores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student success.

The narrow focus on math and reading may goose math and reading test scores in the short term but at the expense of the longer - term and broader goals of education.

Teachers focused on drills aimed at improving test scores, and «teaching to the test» was born.

But a 2013 review of HCZ by Danielle Hanson at the conservative Heritage Foundation was more sympathetic to HCZ, noting that Brookings» narrow focus on test scores in one Promise Academy misses the zone's mission to «reweave the social fabric of Harlem.»

At higher income schools, where most kids scored proficient on the state tests, there wasn't as much focus on test prep.

There was — and will continue to be — much to argue about, including test scores, graduation rates, and class sizes (see Diane Ravitch and / or Sol Stern at «related posts» below), but there is no doubt that Klein and Bloomberg have introduced some much needed common sense, business management practices, accountability, and, yes, a laser - like focus on student achievement, to a system that had become unmanageable and unproductive.

At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.»

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 policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

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 opportunity to make innovative instructional decisions — and to focus on learning rather than on test scores — makes working at Winnona Park a more satisfying professional experience, teachers say.

A high - poverty, previously low - performing elementary school in Maine shifted its from looking mainly at achievement and test scores to focusing on ways to create motivated, confident, engaged students.

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.

For at least a decade, the dominant idea about how to improve outcomes for children and youth has focused on control and compliance; holding adults accountable for raising test scores.

The year we changed our focus from textbooks, programs, supplies, schedules, buildings, grades, test scores, etc. to focus on the heart of the matter at the root level (culture, identity, will, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, empathy, relationships, etc.), we transformed our performance data.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

This year, the state's focus on test scores — at the expense of graduation rates — puts Washington at a disadvantage:

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.

StudentsFirst brags, «Unlike other education report cards, ours doesn't look at test scores or teacher performance, but focuses solely on whether state laws are giving schools the tools to do the best job for our kids.»

And at schools where there's pressure to increase test scores, teachers will have an even harder time adjusting to a focus on knowledge.

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.

As a university professor, I have seen the results of this extreme focus on test - taking: These students score at the highest levels on tests that are reported in their admissions applications, but they score considerably lower on writing assessments, and most importantly, their performance in the classroom does not measure up to the test scores.

It makes more sense to focus on how much test scores have grown at a school rather than whether scores rise to a uniform standard.

The first looks only at the lowest - performing students, focusing all resources on getting these students to score above «proficient» on standardized tests so that the school will be in compliance with NCLB.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

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.

The new federal law also broadens the narrow focus on test scores of the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind, by requiring states to create a school accountability system that includes at least one nonacademic indicator.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Updatest scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Upscores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly UpdaTest Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly UpScores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).

Children of parents in the couple - focused groups were at an advantage in terms of higher scores on individually administered achievement tests, and lower levels of aggressive behaviour at school.

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.