Sentences with phrase «for purposes of accountability»

California's State Board of Education has an opportunity at its meeting this week in Sacramento to leave behind one of the most unfair and problematic features of No Child Left Behind (NCLB): the way it calculates English learners» progress for purposes of accountability.

How to define the «students in foster care» subgroup for the purposes of accountability is an open question, but nevertheless they must be reported on.

If the nation was indeed to have confidence that «all children will enter school ready to learn,» some form of assessment of readiness must be possible for purposes of accountability.

Teacher research demonstrates the detrimental effects on English learners of replacing authentic literacy assessments with standardized assessments designed primarily for purposes of accountability.

Mr Kyeremanten stated he requested the event funds to be lodged in the Ministry's account for the purposes of accountability and transparency.

I think that natural «accountability» within existing friendships can be good and healthy, but I find that most accountability groups where people form groups for the purpose of accountability almost never work.

I agree that this is an important issue that requires our vote, solely for the purpose of accountability.

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They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R - PA) last year asked the Government Accountability Office whether the CFPB's auto lending guidance might qualify as a rule for the purposes of the Congressional Review Act and, if so, be possible to roll back.

For the purpose of uniformity, accountability and transparency, members from Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission who have representatives from every state of the federation were recommended, as umpires and arbiters of the Federation Account, to play prominent roles during the meeting of the State Joint Local Government Accounts Allocation Committee.

«Without accountability by local political leaders, the Federal government would continue to be the scapegoat for the failure of states and local governments to use ecological funds for the purposes they were released,» he said.

«The lesson I've drawn out of the Snowden allegations is that governments need to be much clearer about the purpose for which they infringe on citizens» privacy; about the agencies that have the legal power to do so; about the authority about which it's done; and, critically, about transparency and accountability systems.»

«However, they need to be held accountable for the right things and no fit - for - purpose accountability system should be capable of being abused in such a way that it creates a climate of fear in the workplace.

«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.»

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But we should develop a clear framework of accountability, including through Ofsted, to ensure that the pupil premium is being used both effectively and for its purpose.

It's not really there, it's just statistical noise — sometimes generated by the benign intentions of markers to bump up marginal students, not necessarily for accountability purposes.»

- For accountability purposes, you will be required to submit pictures of each meal during the 30 - day program.

Over the last few years I have developed a deeper skepticism about the reliability of relying on test scores for accountability purposes.

First and foremost, most of the tests we use for accountability purposes are multiple choice assessments that require very little thinking.

(Extra points possible for very high levels of achievement, but maximum score is 100 points for accountability purposes.)

Both NCLB and its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), left the choice of minimum subgroup size at the school level (n - size) for accountability purposes to the states.

The statistics presented here will also differ from the «cohort default rates» analyzed by Looney & Yannelis (2015) and used by the Department of Education for accountability purposes, which track borrowers for three years once they enter repayment.

It is important, first, to distinguish between assessment for diagnostic purposes and assessment as a mechanism of accountability.

One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Leaccountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child LeAccountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

It is unclear why these critics find parents of disabled 5th graders unreliable for accountability purposes, but find parents of students in preschool or university sufficiently competent.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

As the House turns its attention back to ESEA reauthorization, an amendment introduced by Rep. Matt Salmon (R. — Ariz.) would allow parents to opt their children out of state standardized tests without hurting the school for accountability purposes, Alyson Klein notes.

In the summer of 2008, just prior to implementation, the district and union disagreed on whether the ratings teachers received under the EITP would be used for teacher accountability purposes, such as tenure decisions.

Our research showing the lack of relationship between behavioral and self - reported measures of character skills adds to the case for caution in using these measures for evaluation or accountability purposes.

I advocate for a national writing test and use of the Collegiate Learning Assessment and PISA tests for accountability purposes.

The assessments can be used as diagnostic tools the true purpose of such tools but not for high stakes or accountability.

Critics of value - added assessment tend to embrace the concept but don't want the results gleaned from such analysis to be used for accountability purposes — and especially don't want to use the results to reward or sanction teachers.

There is already considerable evidence from several places — such as Tennessee and Florida, where value - added analysis has been used for accountability purposes — that low - achieving students are the main beneficiaries of the changes that occur when these techniques are implemented.

At least one indicator of school success or student support — such as attendance, school climate, or access to AP or other advanced coursework — must be included in measuring school performance (though academic factors must still make up at least half of all indicators for accountability purposes).

Local education decisions traditionally have been the provenance of states and local districts, but Bush led the way for more federal involvement — requiring students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to take standardized tests for school «accountability» purposes.

One option, given the high rate of students from low - income families in CEP schools, is to simply consider all students in these schools to be from low - income families for accountability purposes, including eligibility for supplemental educational services and school choice priority, where relevant.

* The state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program, which may give it the opportunity to use a new assessment system in place of state tests for accountability purposes, Politico New York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updates...

Foremost among these: on the whole, states do a bad job of setting (and maintaining) the standards that matter most — those that define student proficiency for purposes of NCLB and states» own results - based accountability systems.

Many Obama supporters thought he would de-emphasize test scores, but instead his administration made them even more important for «accountability» purposes, and teachers found themselves in the crosshairs of unreasonable evaluation systems, sometimes being assessed by the scores of students they didn't have and / or subjects they didn't teach.

While it is too early to know how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards will play out over the next several years, the authors point out that most states are already using CCSS - aligned assessments for the purposes of educational accountability.

Schools will still submit student results to the state department of education for accountability purposes as ESSA requires.

The California Department of Education and other organizations have created several resources to help educators and the public understand and navigate the new California School Dashboard, which includes data that will be used for school and district accountability purposes beginning next fall.

SMARTER will continue to use one test at the end of the year for accountability purposes, but will create a series of interim tests used to inform students, parents, and teachers about whether students are on track.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

As with the process of allocating Title I funds to schools, student approval for free or reduced - price school meals has been the primary source of information on the low - income status of students for Title I accountability purposes.

PARCC will also replace the one end - of - year high stakes accountability test with a series of assessments throughout the year that will be averaged into one score for accountability purposes, reducing the weight given to a single test administered on a single day, and providing valuable information to students and teachers throughout the year.

States may use graduation rate data for accountability purposes (especially identification of low - graduation - rate high schools) that lag a year behind other accountability data to account for summer graduates.

At the same time, important questions have been raised about the suitability of extant measures of non-cognitive skills, most of which rely on asking students to assess their own abilities, for accountability purposes.