Sentences with phrase «measured through standardized testing»

The student growth component is measured through standardized testing.

Traditionally, the Distinguished Schools Program honored public schools that showed improved student outcomes as measured through Standardized Testing and Reporting scores and additional measures.

Not exact matches

How Children Succeed introduced readers to an exciting new body of research showing that the traditional way we measure children's abilities — through standardized tests of their cognitive skills — was missing a crucial dimension: the importance of so - called non-cognitive skills or character strengths, qualities like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism.

In order to demonstrate clinical efficacy and move these novel therapies quickly through the regulatory agencies, accurate and standardized tests need to be employed to measure and monitor these bioengineered constructs.

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.

With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their # 2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized test scores.

In the midst of her first swing through California, the president - elect of the National Education Association praised the Common Core State Standards and California's measured approach in implementing them but warned about the use of standardized tests.

As explained in a guest blog this year by by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond, these measures use student standardized test scores to track the growth of individual students as they progress through the grades and see how much «value» a teacher has added.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

Preparing students to be college and career ready through the elimination of instructional time that teachers use to prepare students for college required standardized testing (SAT, ACT) is puzzling, but the taking of instructional time so students can take state mandated standardized tests that claim to measure preparedness for college and career is an exercise in circular logic.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

Through coaching provided by TSCCI partners Eskolta and reDesign, Bronx Haven's principal at the time, Lucinda Mendez, and a team of teachers launched a multiyear effort to shift the school's focus from traditional outcome measures — like standardized test scores — toward the learning process itself.

Jeb Bush's claim is that the education reform package that he pushed through in Florida has dramatically improved the quality of education in his state, as measured by standardized test scores.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

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).

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing 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 three yemeasures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing 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 three yeMeasures of Effective Teaching study launched three years ago.

Building on research presented during the Kinder Institute's October KIForum, Reardon's working paper uses a measure of educational opportunity meant to track student growth from grades three through eight utilizing standardized test scores for roughly 45 million students in more than 11,000 school districts across the country.

This is clear in a project called the Schools of Opportunity, launched a few years ago by educators who sought to highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps through research - proven practices and not standardized test scores (which are more a measure of socioeconomic status than anything else).

Schools benefit when measured through multiple assessments because graduation rates and school climate surveys are as important as standardized test scores.

A contentious component of the NCLB bill was its emphasis on a flawed federal evaluation system in which every state was measured with the same measuring stick through an over-reliance on standardized test scores.

Students in Seattle Public Schools take the standardized Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test up to three times a year, from kindergarten through ninth grade or beyond.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.

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