Sentences with phrase «learning through standardized tests»

Let schools be places for learning, not places that kill the spirit of learning through standardized tests and standardized test preparation.

Not exact matches

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 backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college - driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Whether individually or through facilitated professional development, teachers spend a lot of time unpacking the standardized tests and the targeted standards and learning on which they're based.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»

Through more than 20 years of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), we have lived with a uniform definition of accountability, that of a standardized test used to make determinations of student learning and school and district progress.

Learning math through standardized tests does not provide enough interaction.

Students in 3rd through 8th grade took either the Badger exam, the beleaguered state standardized test given for the first and last time last spring, or the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) exam, an alternative assessment given to students with severe cognitive disabilities

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Through coaching provided by TSCCI partners Eskolta and reDesign, Bronx Haven's principal at the time, Lucinda Mendez, and a team of teachers launched a multiyear effort to shift the school's focus from traditional outcome measures — like standardized test scores — toward the learning process itself.

The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college - driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

You make teachers more accountable (lowering benefits, replacing tenure with «merit pay») and you put students through high - stakes testing to make sure they've learned the exact body of knowledge you want them to have, or, alternatively, how to pass a standardized test.

The promises of affordable textbooks that could be updated with the latest information at a moment's notice haven't come through; even the much - touted bells and whistles approach to tablet - based academic ebooks have gone largely stagnant as learning outcomes have not been noticeably improved — at least not according to the almighty standardized tests — with the addition of embedded content.