Sentences with phrase «importance of student test scores»

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

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And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

This view would assign less importance to concerns about declining test scores at the elementary - school level, since the increasing skill of the workforce provides evidence that overall student achievement is not falling.

One of those responsibilities is to meet, along with my assistant principal, with each of my Level 1's [students scoring at the lower levels on the state tests] and their parents to discuss test scores and the importance of raising those scores.

Additionally, the power of strong signals of academic performance — enabled by meaningful grades and test scores — has greater importance for students trapped in low - performing schools.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

What is missing from these arguments is that the scores of the tests that students were given were very narrow measures of what kids could do, and imbuing them with such importance is an insult to authentic assessment.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

Christi Ham, chairwoman for Military Families for High Standards, discussed the importance of ESSA «requiring states to identify military students and track their test scores, attendance and graduation rates as they move from base to base and state to state.»

We hope the courts will also understand the importance of the 20,000 DACA teachers in public K - 12 schools who bring a unique set of skills to the classroom and serve as role models and navigators for students — especially students of color — who consistently perform better when taught by teachers of color, leading to better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher test scores.

Keric Ashley, interim deputy state superintendent, downplayed the importance of the field test comparison in an interview, saying that the purpose was to provide parents «a larger context» of where their students» scores fell relative to other students.

Further, the findings highlight the importance of principal preparation programs beyond increasing student test scores (currently a common way to evaluate programs» efficacy); the ideas about what it means to be an instructional leader will likely permeate graduates» conceptions and associated practices with some permanence.

What is of chief importance to «struggling» schools is the raising of scores on poor quality tests that do not reflect how each student has grown in his or her own way.

Students must be aware of the importance of good grades and test scores, because without the best results they may not be able to enter the college of their choice.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

That is what corporate school reformers have attempted to do — with efforts to expand school choice, elevate the importance of education technology, and use test scores to drive policy as well as the evaluation of students, schools and teachers.

[31] All of the analysts noted the importance of making sure that scores on the old tests are predictive of students» performance on the new tests before calculating value - added using data from both tests.

«Over 50 years of research links the various roles that families play in a child's education — as supporters of learning, encouragers of grit and determination, models of lifelong learning, and advocates of proper programming and placements for their child — with indicators of student achievement including student grades, achievement test scores, lower drop - out rates, students» sense of personal competence and efficacy for learning, and students» beliefs about the importance of education.»

The discussion highlights the importance of accounting for student differences and the advantages of focusing on student achievement gains as opposed to differences in test scores.

August 12, 2015 — SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has released a statement in response to the release of NY state test scores on the importance of ensuring a «higher degree of success for all students, from cradle to career.»

For example, VAMs are useful «for researchers comparing large groups of teachers to investigate the effects of teacher training approaches or educational policies, or simply to investigate the size and importance of long - term teacher effects... [I] t is clear that value - added scores are far superior to unadjusted end - of - year student test scores» (Haertel, 2013, p. 23).

The academic achievement that students are attaining in magnet schools is of course of importance, but the benefits of integration may be compromised in the process of focusing more on test scores.

This article provides a good summary of the findings of a Pennsylvania survey on the importance of school libraries in relation to students» test scores.

Further, when administrators, teachers, and librarians themselves rated the importance and frequency of various library practices associated with student learning, their ratings correlated with student test scores, further substantiating claims of libraries» benefits.