Sentences with phrase «focusing on test scores data»

Evaluation systems often attempt to offset the focus on test score data by incorporating other measures of teacher effectiveness, including observations, peer review, and other teacher materials.

Not exact matches

With today's focus on test scores and achievement, there's a tremendous amount of good data.»

-- those kinds of conversations around data can lead to much more productive work than the ones that are focused on «[let's use] data to think about how we're going to improve test scores».

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

It's not just focusing on data about the test scores and so on.

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

His work focuses on finding better ways to use test - score and other data to inform teaching and leadership practices.

Evers said the new accountability system most likely will focus on data the state already has the ability to collect, such as proficiency and growth over time on a new state test being developed, advanced placement enrollment, graduation rates, college entrance exam scores and industry certification for students who don't go on to college.

«If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme,» Barnum writes, «in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.»

What Peterson and Kaplan should have done was simply focus on the underlying data, which shows that for most of the past eight years, many states have set proficiency targets and cut scores on state tests that have undermined the goals (and, in some cases, high expectations set by) their old curricula standards.

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.

In years past, K - 12 accountability measures focused on data points such as third - grade reading scores, the number of ninth - graders taking algebra, or setting new records for the most number of AP tests taken and passed.

Another challenge is weaning teachers from a focus on data and test scores.

The latest movement to add more technology into classrooms is repeating the same mistakes, focusing on how tech can help teachers by churning out more data about students, saving time and raising test scores.

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

all participating schools be subject to an annual evaluation that will focus on the educational outcomes of students (which would include disaggregated discipline data, state test scores, college course pass, college success, etc.) and the program impact.

If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme, in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems, and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.

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