Sentences with phrase «measured school quality often»

But measured school quality often varies dramatically within a school district, and therefore it is important to know whether individual schools differ in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students.

Not exact matches

While opponents of student testing often seem to have the biggest megaphone, polls show an overwhelming majority — 70 percent and up — of parents think tests are a valid measure of their child's achievement level and the quality of schools.

These kinds of achievement tests, however, are not designed to measure school quality (yet they are often used to do just that).

The trend in education policy, exemplified especially by NCLB, has been to combine narrow measures with high stakes, thereby damaging schools» capacity to meet larger goals and often undermining the quality of education.

Since low - income families often can not afford anything besides their assigned district school, the government school system has had to impose top - down accountability measures to ensure quality in the absence of choice.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

«While researchers are often frustrated when journalists equate test scores with school quality, journalists are not alone in this — parents and state and federal policies often — mistakenly — consider test scores as measures of school quality.»

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.