Sentences with phrase «high quality assessments»

There's no doubt that we have learned a lot over the past 20 years about designing and implementing high quality assessment and accountability systems.

Going with a consortium test may allow states to spread out the risk and have higher quality assessment without having to go it alone.

High quality assessment helps educators and other education stakeholders — students, parents, school board members, and policymakers — gather evidence to ensure that all students are learning.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

The evaluation was based on elements of the Criteria for Procuring and Evaluating High Quality Assessments, which was developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and released in 2014.

In addition, the acquisition will help Wireless Generation make available high quality assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards to customers in thousands of districts across the U.S.»

Dr Michael Timms directs the Division of Assessment and Psychometric Research at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), which develops high quality assessments and conducts cutting edge research in educational measurement.

Reformed GCSEs should allow students to access any grade while enabling high quality assessment at all levels.

The CEO of one of the two national Common Core testing groups (PARCC) put it plainly just this week: «High quality assessments go hand - in - hand with high quality instruction based on high quality standards.

UPCOMING AYPF EVENTS Capitol Hill Forum — Making Learning More Meaningful in a Reimagined Accountability System This forum will showcase schools that are supporting meaningful learning by putting in place higher quality assessments.

Strong engagement with evidence and high quality assessment approaches, both in formulating the focus of the Lesson Study and in the choosing and refining of the intervention.

and this can only be responded to based on the evidence gathered from high quality assessment practice — both formative and summative.

School Improvement Services provides leadership and assistance in current high quality assessment selection, design, development, use, and analysis and interpretation of assessment results.

«This approach will provide continuity in the classroom for teachers and students, maintain high quality assessment information about student progress, build a long - term partnership with a high performing neighboring state, and further decrease testing time,» Ken Wagner, the state's commissioner of elementary and secondary education, said in a statement.

Additionally, we seek strategic partnerships with other organizations, such as the Council of Chief State School Officers, Achieve, and KnowledgeWorks, and philanthropic foundations to help support our mission of improving student learning through high quality assessment and accountability systems.

the delivery of excellent, timely and easily accessible therapeutic support for adoptive and special guardianship families; based on high quality assessment of need including, where necessary, health - led specialist assessments; and in a regionalised, integrated health and social care environment to ensure long term sustainability.

As opportunities to grow home visiting programs come up, such as the new federal home visiting program, collaborative home visiting state systems provide the infrastructure to support high quality assessment, programming and model fidelity.

These resources were developed by the Center to support comprehensive evaluations of standardized assessments measuring college - and career - ready standards relative to CCSSO's Criteria for Procuring and Evaluating High Quality Assessments.

All therapists at ACPT are able to apply this high quality assessment and treatment therapy to fix the patients.

• And, that through the consortium, states are able to ensure a higher quality assessment than any individual state could by itself.

PARCC ASSESSMENT — The PARCC states» high quality assessments will allow parents and educators to see how children are progressing in school and whether they are on track for postsecondary success.

- Require fewer but higher quality assessments.

The Math SCASS focuses specifically on implementation of college and career ready standards, mathematics curriculum, standards review, and high quality assessments.

These results and analyses will drive how the assessments are refined and continue to be developed; although the field test may be over, the hard work of making sure the highest quality assessment is delivered to states in the coming school year is still going on.

E4E - New York Teacher Policy Team member Maura Henry calls for improving testing in schools, while not forgetting the value that high quality assessments can...

«We look forward to engaging Wisconsin educators in the development of these innovative, high quality assessments.»

Third, we also propose that the state of Tennessee leave open the possibility of switching tests if it appears that PARCC is not working by including an exit clause in any new contract created with PARCC to hold it accountable for continuing to provide a high quality assessment.

It is also important to know that the new testing vendor Questar, as well as the TNDOE, is making a genuine effort to work with classroom educators across the state to provide responsive customer service and high quality assessments.

Assessments — including Rubrics This segment is the nuts and bolts of high quality assessment.

Achieve encourages states to work towards a high quality assessment system that is aligned, coherent, and streamlined.

The studies show that PARCC is a high quality assessment, aligns to state learning standards, predicts college readiness, compares well to NAEP performance, is endorsed by the country's top educators, and gives students with disabilities and English learners more tools and access to the test than previous tests.

And in the ultimate irony, we seem ready to do so just when educators and students badly need feedback on where they are on our new and much higher standards and just when those in many states are about to get that feedback on what promises to be higher quality assessments than ever before.

Susan Lyons works with state education leaders and other educational organizations to design and evaluate high quality assessment and accountability systems.

High quality assessment is an educational necessity.

The purpose of this document is to provide a framework to support states who want to take action on advancing efficient and effective systems of high quality assessments and learn from those who already have taken action.

ACER is a recognised international leader in the development and provision of high quality assessment and reporting tools and services for schools, universities, TAFE institutes and Registered Training Organisations, health professionals, employers, and governments in Australia and internationally.