Sentences with phrase «into taking standardized tests»

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A wonderlic result doesn't take into account a players» level of test anxiety or other factors such as educational training for standardized tests in the past.

They also hope that university admissions officers consider taking into account what applicants «know» (for example, what they learned in their high school elective classes), in addition to their grades and standardized test scores.

Children take as many as 20 standardized tests each year, and timed testing follows students through college entrance exams and into their careers.

They can't be judged simply on standardized tests that don't take into account whether children are prepared before they get to school or not.»

What would it take to confront the issues of how we keep children whole and how we address the needs of the whole child in an era in which children are being sliced and diced into categories on standardized tests?

In addition to probably not capturing everything that we want out of schools, we should also take into account that it appears that more and more families are opting into private schooling to get away from schools that they think are obsessed with standardized testing.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

If our reporting on statehouse conversations about what academic standards Indiana will use next have felt pretty abstract, try on this possible consequence of pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana: Tucked into the Office of Management and Budget report state lawmakers will discuss Tuesday is the possibility students could have to take two standardized tests in 2015.

Wisconsin students have taken three different standardized tests each of the last three years: the former Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE), which morphed into the Badger Exam in spring 2015, and has now been replaced by the Forward Exam.

But standardized tests don't allow personal factors to be taken into consideration.

The ratings were based on a complex formula that predicts how students will do — after taking into account background characteristics — on standardized tests.

In a curious choice, the «Odds» list is based on how well a school's low - income students score on standardized tests but does not take into account how many low - income students it has.

Wolk lists four common practices in public schools: holding all students to the same high content standards; moving students sequentially through a common, rigorous curriculum organized into academic silos; giving students little say in their own education; and requiring them to take many standardized tests.

I was deemed «not gifted» in elementary school — by the school, despite 99th percentile standardized test scores every time we took them — and people I found to be dull and boring at the time were put into the gifted program.

What has happened in the past decade and a half is a classic example of ever increasing perverse incentives that have taken standardized tests and converted them from an occasional check on the system into an increasingly important end unto themselves by which entire schools and individual teachers» lives depend.

Taking the growth percentiles as a valid measure of teaching would have you believe that the distribution of ineffective teachers in New Jersey just happens to directly concentrate into schools with high percentages of students in poverty and low overall proficiency levels on standardized tests.

The letter commends the committee for providing states with the flexibility to use additional indicators of student proficiency in H.R. 5, its ESEA reauthorization bill, but asks to add language to the bill that will take into account the broad array of measures beyond standardized test scores.

When you tie standardized test results to receiving bonuses, there are some adults who just can't face the reality that it is children taking the standardized tests and so they decide to take the situation into their own hands.

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

After taking a step forward by incorporating student outcomes into the accountability index for students with disabilities, the Office of Special Education Programs promptly took a gigantic leap backward by relying solely on standardized testing as the only measure of program performance.

Standardized test results don't take into account how factors outside of a teacher's control impact student performance on the day the test is taken; these include factors such as whether or not the student slept and ate well prior to the test, social and emotional occurrences (e.g., student's parents are going through a divorce, there is a serious illness in the family, student had an argument with a best friend just before the class in which the test is given, student doesn't feel well that day).

Across the country, dozens of states and school districts have proposed or instituted changes in the way they evaluate teachers to take into account how much their students improve on standardized tests.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

So rather than give Bridgeport's students the opportunity to review and prepare for the tests that actually matter (the exams that translate into grades), Bridgeport's corporate school leadership will be eliminating that critical instructional time so that students can take a standardized test similar to the one they took only ninety days ago.

However, an over-reliance on student standardized test scores for evaluating teacher and principal performance does not take into account improved student progress in light of challenging circumstances that confront students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

They have a unique algorithm that takes into account things such as education, career, job history, and standardized test scores, but you will still need a minimum FICO score of 640.

Additionally, many standardized tests do not take into account regional, cultural and economic variations that may contribute to a child's developmental progress.