Sentences with phrase «grade promotion decisions»

E4E - New York joined with other groups - including the United Federation of Teachers - in praising the DOE's move to base grade promotion decisions on multiple...

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Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., in a letter Monday to district superintendents statewide, said the state «neither requires nor encourages districts to make promotion or placement decisions using student performance on state assessments in grades 3 - 8.»

The law includes an indefinite prohibition on test scores being used «solely or primarily» in decisions about student promotion and placement, and strikes the grades from students» permanent records.

Since third and fifth grades in my school were the two «promotion» grades (the grades when students are tested and when most promotion and retention decisions are made), the standards on the fourth - grade report card were the standards associated with fifth grade, not fourth grade.

Throughout the country, and with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (which requires research - based assessment), student performance on these tests has become the basis for such critical decisions as student promotion from one grade to the next, and compensation for teachers and administrators.

An independent research consortium studying the Chicago decision to end social promotion, which was aimed at helping students not working at grade level, reports a mixed bag of news.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

This bill would prevent educators from using PARCC scores, «to determine a student's placement in a gifted and talented program, another program or intervention, grade promotion, as the State graduation proficiency test, any other school or district - level decision that affects students, or as part of any evaluation rubric submitted to the Commissioner of Education for approval.»

Increasingly, standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students, such as grade promotion or high school graduation, and schools.

The city Department of Education followed a similar logic this week in changing its student promotion policy, basing such decisions not only on test scores but also on grades and portfolios of student work.

However, high stakes decisions involving tracking, grade promotion, admission to dual - credit courses and graduation based on a single testing event present major educational and motivational challenges.

Accuracy requires that students have multiple opportunities to pass any test when the test results are used to make high - stakes decision, such as promotion to the next grade or graduation from high school.

That in turn led to concerns about the pace of implementation and the potential effects of the shift on student grade - promotion decisions and teacher evaluation ratings.

This guide provides information for families about how promotion decisions are made for students with disabilities who participate in standard assessments at all grade levels.

Responding to complaints about state infringement on local decision - making, reform proponents succeeded in removing the tie of promotion requirements at the third grade level to performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAKS).

Some Chicago parents have also opted their students out of the ISAT in some grades — but since CPS uses 3rd, 6th and 8th grade ISAT scores to make student promotion decisions and 7th grade ISAT scores as a gateway to selective enrollment high schools, the opt out choice here can be hazardous.