Sentences with phrase «judgments about educators»

Can they not take a lesson from America's experience with the uses of test - score data in making judgments about educators and schools?

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There is a definite need for tools and resources that offer educators alternative ways to develop informed judgments about the quality, effectiveness, accuracy, and the appropriateness of apps for their students.

Educators should use their professional judgment about when and where to leverage GBL elements in a PBL project, and they should be perfectly fine saying, «No, it doesn't fit right now,» or «Yes, this can work!»

Our goals will be to deepen our own understandings of educational justice, to engage with others about complex ethical judgments across multiple lines of difference, and to learn how to enhance educators» and policymakers» capacities to make ethical decisions under challenging conditions.»

Maybe only parents, communities, and local educators are well - enough positioned to make reasonable (if imperfect) judgments about what each child needs.

For all but the lowest - performing 1 percent of schools (which struggle across the board), a single number will inevitably produce arbitrary judgments about which schools are «better» and «worse,» concealing the specific strengths and weaknesses of specific schools and depriving educators of the information that they need to improve.

Decision makers in education — students, parents, educators, community members, and policymakers — all need timely access to information from many sources if they are to make informed judgments about student learning and the success of education programs.

Educators must promote the creation of education policy that supports best practice, as well as a modern accountability system that uses a variety of methods when making judgments about student achievement and learning.

Assessment is valuable when educators use it to guide programs, determine instruction, influence resource allocations, and authentically make judgments about student learning.

States and schools plan to use the new tests to not only determine how well students are mastering the new standards, but also to make judgments about school and educator performance.