Sentences with phrase «misuse of student test scores»

Supporting efforts to halt the misuse of student test scores in judging teachers and other educators.

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And while they continued to ignore it, the misuse of tests became ever more extreme, in some cases reaching truly absurd levels — for example, «evaluating» teachers based on the scores obtained by teachers in other schools or teaching other subjects to different students.

Lisa Elliott, a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and 18 - year veteran teacher who has devoted her 18 - year professional career to the Alhambra Elementary School District — a Title I school district (i.e., having at least 40 % of the student population from low - income families) located in the Phoenix / Glendale area — expresses in this video how she refuses to be bullied by her district's misuse of standardized test scores.

I addressed the misuse and overuse of standardized tests, the false promise of better tests, how standardized tests narrow the curriculum, the way CPS and others only pretend to use multiple measures, bias in standardized tests, the failure of merit pay and other schemes to link teacher work to student scores, and the likelihood that the new national tests will be hugely expensive.