Sentences with phrase «measure of school quality»

We believe that some of these differences are critical because the choices states make may determine how powerful attendance and chronic absence are as measures of school quality and student success.

Four years ago, my research team set out to build a more holistic measure of school quality.

High - school lottery winners in the high - risk group and all middle - school lottery winners experience modest increases in standard measures of school quality.

The publications highlighted point out key measures of school quality, support professional development in data use, suggest action steps for building better data systems, and tackle data and equity issues.

Instead of using reading and math tests as one useful tool, many reformers have made these results the defining measure of school quality.

Here's how the latest push to provide measures of school quality fall short.

But if we're unable to develop strong measures of school quality that can be used remotely, the logical conclusion to be drawn is not that we ought to rely on them anyway.

The authors see progress in establishing more meaningful measures of school quality despite the difficulty of comparing school quality across states.

Given that we have difficulty agreeing on learning targets, is it possible to use student learning success as an accurate measure of school quality?

While there is value in multiple measures of school quality, the focus on college - and career - readiness for students should not be obscured by other data that do not align to that goal of student success.

It's why our current federal education law asks states to define other measures of school quality in addition to information gleaned from test scores.

By removing letter grades, parents are cheated out of clear objective measures of school quality.

My first set of results demonstrates that inspector ratings are correlated with student - and parent - reported measures of school quality, even after controlling for test - score results and other school characteristics.

Many states nonetheless interpret the index as a simple measure of school quality.

Almost none of the participants in our ESSA design competition recommended that states use proficiency rates, reflecting the near - universal consensus that such rates are a bad measure of school quality.

Coleman tended to look at measures of school quality that administrators and policymakers rely on when defending their proposals to school boards.

I test the validity of the inspection ratings by examining to what extent these ratings can forecast measures of school quality not observed by the inspectors, after taking into account the measures they do observe.

For now, though, we should acknowledge that there's a reason we use test scores and graduation rates as the primary measures of school quality: They are the best we've got.

Using the same data on Tennessee's high schools, I created lists of «low - performing schools» based on how the schools ranked on different measures of school quality.

Jay then argues that because testing doesn't measure everything, attainment is actually a better measure of school quality.

In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

«A «dashboard» accountability system will include important information about school and student performance, but it is unclear how it will be measured and incorporated into an overall measure of school quality.»

We've got a new federal law that opens the door to innovative measures of school quality, a Congress and administration that are telling states to shoot for the moon, and the prospect of major new federal funding for charter schools.

The paper says «one consistent predictor of achievement gaps is the differential rate of exposure between whites and minorities to poor classmates,» but it found «little or no association between achievement gaps» and available measures of school quality.

They continue, noting that «the way in which standardized tests have been used under federal law as almost the single measure of school quality has resulted in the frequent misuse of these instruments across the nation.»

Thus, the performance index not only provided an average measure of school quality, but also provided more fine - grained results to guide improvement (Schafer, 2003).

In «Quality Counts and the Chance - for - Success Index,» education researcher Margaret Raymond and a team of researchers from CREDO at Stanford University note that, while grades on the Chance - for - Success Index are sometimes interpreted as measures of school quality, the grades are closely related to measures of family background, and do not represent the contribution of a state's schools to the success of its youngsters.

Organize a consortium of districts to create a new accountability system based on multiple measures of school quality and student learning

High school lottery winners in the high - risk group and all middle school lottery winners transferred to schools featuring modest increases in standard measures of school quality, such as average test scores and higher proportions of teachers with more than 3 years of experience.

Good Measures for Good Schools is a practical online guide to key measures of school quality that will help educators evaluate their schools.

But as states rethink what success looks like, they can use more holistic measures of school quality to improve school and student performance.

I construct two measures of school quality — student perceptions of teacher practices and parent satisfaction — using data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), a major survey supported by the Department for Education.

The study broadened the measures of school quality beyond what policymakers envisioned.

But it takes teachers to design better homework (which can include no homework at all on some nights), parents to not see hours of homework as a measure of school quality, and students to reflect on their current homework strategies while applying new, research - backed ones.

Unfortunately, the idea of multiple measures on a systemic level has been largely ignored in favor of standardized test scores, which are relatively easy to collect and report and have been enshrined in federal policy for the last decade - plus as the measure of school quality.