Sentences with phrase «meaningful assessment instead»

«We need reforms that have been proven to work, like smaller classes, encouraging parent involvement, and meaningful assessment instead of battering our children

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Critics of U.S. schools» heavy emphasis on testing charge that the high - stakes assessments inflict anxiety on students and teachers, turning classrooms into test - preparation factories instead of laboratories of genuine, meaningful learning.

So, portfolios are frequently included with other types of authentic assessments because they move away from telling a student's story though test scores and, instead, focus on a meaningful collection of student performance and meaningful reflection and evaluation of that work.

Instead of «thick slice» assessment (data taken from a single point in time, and / or data with very large blocks of time between measurements), formative assessments are conducted at meaningful «thin slice» points measured throughout the academic year.