Sentences with phrase «kind of standardized tests»

They are not the kind of standardized tests schools used to use.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

Both DCPS and many charter schools administer perhaps four or five other kinds of standardized tests throughout the year, partly to assess growth and partly to predict how students will do on PARCC tests.

I think owning a dog or any pet for that matter, should be something you must pass some kind of standardized testing and obtain a license to do.

Not exact matches

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

The kind of teaching that maximizes performance on our current standardized tests can actually be counterproductive.

While donor human milk undergoes extensive screening and testing to ensure its safety, a first - of - its - kind study by the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, published in the Journal of Human Lactation (JHL), has found a serious lack of standardized data among donor milk banks across North America.

At any point in time, the two are highly correlated: people with strong fluid cognitive skills are at an advantage when it comes to accumulating the kinds of crystallized knowledge assessed by most standardized tests.

Two kinds of standardized achievement tests commonly used for school evaluations are ill suited for that measurement.

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.

A Friday spelling quiz shouldn't cause same kind of anxiety as a state mandated standardized test, but especially with younger kids, they might not know that.

Gardner revolutionized the fields of psychology and education more than 30 years ago when he published his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,» which detailed a new model of human intelligence that went beyond the traditional view that there was a single kind that could be measured by standardized tests...

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

WASHINGTON — In the most comprehensive study of its kind yet conducted, researchers from Boston College have found evidence to confirm the widespread view that standardized and textbook tests emphasize low - level thinking and knowledge and that they exert a profound, mostly negative, effect on classroom instruction.

Standardized tests are, by definition, tests removed from student engagement and context; they require a particular kind of teaching that is antithetical to what most of us believe education should be.

Standardized tests, he notes, are often biased and do not measure the kind of learning society needs.

I tell my kids that standardized tests don't mean anything in the long run and that they'll never have to take such tests once they start working (unless it's for a certification of some kind).

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

With children on the autism spectrum, for example, that is complicated by the fact that some students actually can be successful on high - stakes standardized tests, and with the right kind of support, might be able to earn a regular high school diploma.

Speculating about how many and what kind of students were opting out of standardized tests was a fun education parlor game this spring.

Students helped school leaders prepare for standardized testing by offering input on how they could be grouped on test day and on what kinds of incentives would encourage them to do their best.

No more of the kind of funny business — including approving shoddy textbooks and standardized tests that don't align to standards — that can make a mockery of even the highest - quality state standards.

High standards meant going beyond the kind of static and fragmented knowledge typically measured by standardized tests.

Promoting this kind of learning can help students prepare for the standardized testing that measures their growth throughout the year.

Under the new Indiana law, schools must use an assessment that includes some kind of objective data — like scores on standardized tests — and link teacher performance to pay.

Using «Multiple Measures» Does Not Reduce Testing: Combining standardized test scores with other kinds of information in teacher evaluation systems — known as the «multiple measures» strategy — does nothing to reduce the disruption testing brings to school routines and student leTesting: Combining standardized test scores with other kinds of information in teacher evaluation systems — known as the «multiple measures» strategy — does nothing to reduce the disruption testing brings to school routines and student letesting brings to school routines and student learning.

But high - stakes state standardized tests of this kind are not unusual.

Recent research shows that non-standardized, human assessments of student learning are superior to standardized tests of all kinds.

It is for this reason that we should keep an eye on New Hampshire's pilot of a new kind of assessment, one that more holistically examines multiple measures of student performance and focuses less on standardized testing.

McQueen says educators often interpret what the standards mean in concrete terms by seeing the kinds of questions that get posed to students in the standardized tests.

NCLB instituted a system of standardized tests nationwide, which are meant to act as a kind of national barometer for educators — and for federal officials deciding where to send education funding — that is, as a tool for comparing performance across schools and school districts.

He also pretends that people who are against standardized testing are against any kind of student assessment, which is typical right - wing bullshit.

It details a new model of human intelligence that went beyond the traditional view that there was a single kind that could be measured by standardized tests.

Unlike the external standardized tests that feature so prominently on the school landscape these days, well - designed classroom assessment and grading practices can provide the kind of specific, personalized, and timely information needed to guide both learning and teaching.

Jim — I think your result appears unintuitive because of the somewhat odd way that you have set it up, kind of like those quirky word problems on so many standardized tests.

The most important lessons I learned in school had to do with exposure to diversity, navigating other perspectives, and learning about the kind of person I wanted to be — knowledge that no standardized test could measure.