Sentences with phrase «measured on standardized tests»

There is no denying that teachers have a profound influence on students» ways of thinking, their emotional development and other crucial aspects of children's intellectual growth that can not be measured on standardized tests.

The content of the standards and of the SBAC tests is simply what test makers determined could be measured on standardized tests, not what is appropriate for students to learn or what fosters student growth as readers, writers, and thinkers.

The direct instruction (DI) model proved to be eminently trainable to teachers under experimental conditions, effective in promoting student engagement in classroom tasks as demonstrated through classroom observations, and statistically significantly related to growth in pupil achievement as measured on standardized tests (Myer, 1988).

Student performance as measured on standardized tests has improved about 5 percent a year since the school opened, D'Avignon said.

Of course, as with all constructivist teaching, there may well be a mismatch between what's learned in a WebQuest and what's measured on standardized tests.

«I would help schools implement programs that focus on the whole child and create productive members of society, by addressing components of education that can not be measured on standardized tests,» said Cossondra George.

We've been very focused on this narrow set of cognitive skills that get measured on standardized tests.

What if we gave them permission to honor their true genius, even if we can't measure it on a standardized test?

Many of the most powerful ways teachers impact their students can't be measured on a standardized test.

While SEL skills are difficult to measure on standardized tests, they have strong implications for student engagement and success in college, career, and life after high school.

So many areas of child development can not be measured on a standardized test.

An art project in New Mexico highlights subject areas that can't be measured on a standardized test.

Not exact matches

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

While colleges struggle to find ways to measure 21st century skills, students continue to be judged largely based on GPA and standardized test scores — metrics that we know are often biased and flawed.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

And yet the problem with trying to put numbers on non-cognitive qualities is that we don't have measures for grit or self - control that are as reliable as the standardized tests are for cognitive skills.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York State Assembly.

Cuomo wants to change the way teacher evaluations are measured, he'd like to see at least half of a teacher's grade be based on standardized tests associated with the Common Core curriculum.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York state Assembly.

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

The state released its annual standardized test scores on Tuesday, bringing measured good news for the city's most struggling schools.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

Objections focused on numerous parts of the plan, including the reliance on standardized test scores and other measures that teachers believe are unfair and unworkable.

«For the state to give standardized tests, which many people think are developmentally inappropriate, put all sorts of pressure on kids, don't measure creativity, critical thinking, and all the things we think are important.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

In a phone interview, Dr. Rosa, 64, said she believed there was too much emphasis on standardized tests as measures of students» and schools» performance.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

If Davidson is right, 21st - century society will move away from categorizing people based on standardized tests, which are crude measures of intelligence at best.

Furthermore, these differences also correlated with one measure of academic achievement — performance on standardized tests.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

While Forbus and Lovett's system can be used to model general visual problem - solving phenomena, they specifically tested it on Raven's Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal standardized test that measures abstract reasoning.

In the conventional approach to measuring IQ, a person is given a standardized test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and their score on the test is assumed to reflect their level of intelligence (with some amount of random error).

Sadly, many of them never make the connection between mind and body, and just keep sinking into those self - defeating thoughts as they worry about how they will measure up on the next standardized test.

Coleman found that variation in school resources (as measured by per - pupil spending and student - to - teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation in student achievement on standardized tests.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplMeasures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three yemeasures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three yeMeasures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

The study assessed performance on standardized achievement tests as well as measures of various character strengths.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

On the other hand, we did not meet our goal to shrink by a significant margin the achievement gap (as measured by state - level standardized tests) as was our hope.

A new emphasis on something that educators have known for decades: Skills not measured by standardized testing are important to children's development.