Sentences with phrase «growth through standardized tests»

Not exact matches

As explained in a guest blog this year by by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond, these measures use student standardized test scores to track the growth of individual students as they progress through the grades and see how much «value» a teacher has added.

Though testing is not part of our class curriculum, our school is still accountable to show student growth and proficiency through standardized tests.

The discrepancies underline the difficulty educators at the local and state level face in tracking students» academic growth through high school, especially when the only standardized tests students take cover narrow subject areas.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

The direct instruction (DI) model proved to be eminently trainable to teachers under experimental conditions, effective in promoting student engagement in classroom tasks as demonstrated through classroom observations, and statistically significantly related to growth in pupil achievement as measured on standardized tests (Myer, 1988).

The student growth component is measured through standardized testing.

Building on research presented during the Kinder Institute's October KIForum, Reardon's working paper uses a measure of educational opportunity meant to track student growth from grades three through eight utilizing standardized test scores for roughly 45 million students in more than 11,000 school districts across the country.

First, they would have to embrace the comprehensive use of test score growth data (through Value - Added Measurement)-- and ultimately, the standardized tests they loathe — in evaluating districts, teachers, and school leaders.