Sentences with phrase «meaningful measures of student achievement»

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[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures of student achievement and provide any meaningful differentiation between teachers.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

And so, sans meaningful accountability — or, put another way, whether the district takes responsibility for and responds to unacceptably low student achievement, as well as other measures of school performance and culture — parents will make other choices.

Future researchers will need to address the challenge, finding meaningful ways to document student achievement while documenting formative measures of progress such as parents» understanding of instructional goals, teachers» priorities and their practice, teacher understanding, and surface - level changes in materials and activities.

Combined with teacher - made measures of authentic student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the achievement gap and build meaningful educational opportunities and success for students.

Snow said she'd like to see more meaningful measures of how schools are closing the achievement gap for English learners, such as how quickly a student is able to move out of English - learner status, or finding a way to measure content knowledge without their language limitation being a factor in the score.

Lastly, ensuring that teacher licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach, and creating a uniform system for licensure, can increase student achievement.

I am writing to urge you to do everything you can to ensure the integrity of the data used to measure student achievement and ensure meaningful educational accountability in your State.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

«Technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work, and we must leverage it to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences and content, as well as resources and assessments that measure student achievement in more complete, authentic, and meaningful ways» (National Ed.

â cents Evaluation measures that also include evidence of: differentiated instruction and practices based on student progress; culturally responsive instructional strategies to address and eliminate the achievement gap; high expectations and active student engagement; consistent and effective relationships with students, parents, teachers, administrators and other school and district staff; and meaningful self - assessment to improve as a professional educator.

Eliminates current law requirement that school districts must use 60 percent of the grant funds to award classroom teachers and principals who effectively improvement student achievement as determined by meaningful, objective measures.