Sentences with phrase «important than test scores»

«Is it possible that we succeeded not because of test scores but because our society encourages something more important than test scores: to create, innovate, imagine, and think differently?»

There were many signs featuring the words, «Arne Sucks» and «Children are more important than test scores» — a reference to Duncan's emphasis on standardized tests.

Your academic record will be more important than any test scores, especially if you do well in challenging college preparatory courses.

Instead, he told the reporter that keeping enrollment high was more important than test scores.

Not exact matches

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

Test scores are important and should play a central role, but schools do much more than teach kids content, and we should start designing our measurement systems to be more in line with what we want schools to be doing.

Readers may also wish to read an important new essay by sociologist George Farkas, «The Black - White Test Score Gap» (Contexts, Spring 2004), which says that the racial rift is caused, more than any other thing, by divergent child - rearing practices (and preschool opportunities).

It's important to emphasize how crude and inaccurate decisions based on test scores typically are, rather than to imagine them to be as sophisticated as analyses found in leading journals (which are still quite imperfect).

Finally, this research helps demonstrate that schools produce important educational outcomes other than those captured by math and reading test scores, and that it is possible for researchers to collect measures of those other outcomes.

Today, a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk is more important than ever, as the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires that annual testing scores be broken down by race.

«Ultimately, these are more important outcomes than test scores.»

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

All of those times are important because they help me get to know more about my students rather than just their test scores.

Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.

Either way, this ephemeral and harder - to - measure - via - a-study end result is, for this mother, ultimately more beneficial and important than any score on any test will ever be.

However, barely more than half of the survey respondents said that standardized test scores are «important» and barely 10 % listed «performance on standardized tests» as one of their top five reasons for choosing a school.

Slaughter said the fact that D'Andre is excelling academically and socially at Quitman is far more important to her than the school's average test scores.

A long - running education poll's latest results this September find «Less than half of adults (42 %) say performance on standardized tests is a highly important indicator of school quality — that includes just 13 % who call test scores extremely important.»

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

«In evaluating school performance, registered voters in California say creating a safe and positive school environment is far more important than higher scores on standardized tests, according to a Berkeley IGS / EdSource poll.

Perhaps most important, states now have the opportunity to use a framework of indicators for school success that is far better aligned with the skills and knowledge students need to be successful in college, career, citizenship and life, rather than default to standardized test scores.

Alternatively, charter schools might produce larger effects on attainment than on test scores because they are endowing students with skills, knowledge, work habits, motivation, and values that are important for long - term success but are not fully captured by test scores.

The More Than a Score group has been working to include LSCs in the important work of educating parents and others around the problems with high - stakes standardized testing.

More important than standardized test scores, the quality of the education that students who are educated with a Common Core curriculum have is vastly inferior to the education that other students in affluent suburbs and independent, private schools have.

«It's absolutely more important to improve attendance than to improve test scores,» she said in an interview.

The administration's expansionist strategy is what landed Cooper Union in a cultural and financial crisis to begin with, and their worldview in which standardized - test scores and socioeconomic status quotas are more important than the advancement of knowledge, community, and equality are what make them incapable of understanding the value of free education.

Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»

Weissberg and his colleagues recently completed an analysis of 300 scientific studies and reached two important conclusions: Students enrolled in such programs scored at least 10 percentage points higher on achievement tests than peers who weren't.