Sentences with phrase «instructionally insensitive»

The challenge before us, clearly, is how to replace today's instructionally insensitive accountability tests with better ones.

A second kind of instructionally insensitive test is the sort of standardized achievement test that many states have developed for accountability during the past two decades.

As a consequence, students» performances on this type of instructionally insensitive test often become dependent on the very same SES factors that compromise the utility of nationally standardized achievement tests when used for school evaluation.

Here, then, are three adverse classroom consequences seen in states where instructionally insensitive NCLB tests are used:

Because it is essentially impossible to raise students» scores on instructionally insensitive tests, many teachers — in desperation — require seemingly endless practice with items similar to those on an approaching accountability test.

Bad things happen when schools are evaluated using either of these two types of instructionally insensitive tests.

Popham argues that assessment in the United States has suffered from six crucial, recurring problems: too many curricular targets; the underutilization of classroom assessment; preoccupation with instructional process; the dearth of «affective» assessments, i.e., those focused on attitudes, interests, and values; instructionally insensitive accountability tests; and the reality that educators «know almost nothing about educational assessment.»