Sentences with phrase «more focused on standardized tests»

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The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

Dr. Ng and colleagues hope their standardized testing method «will allow for more focused research on applying mesopic vision function findings to patient care.»

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

But critics also say that the No Child Left Behind focus on testing has narrowed and standardized curricula, and discouraged teachers from experimenting with lesson plans that do more than get kids past a test.

Unlike in the U.S., where school education has become much more standardized and driven by external requirements, like bureaucratic accountability, standardized testing and scripted teaching, Finnish schools are free to focus on «good» education that leads to excellence, engagement and ethics.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

However, as more of the time in schools is focused on preparing for and taking standardized tests, these more powerful uses of technology are in some places being neglected.

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

Like a lot of teachers, she gets frustrated by the «experts» and the politicians who are constantly proposing «No Child Left Behind» and «Race to the Top» schemes, along with other grand plans that invariably add up to more standardized testing and less focus on actual education.

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

The new formula aims to focus on more than standardized test scores, with 60 percent of student progress measured by academics and 40 percent measured by «social - emotional and culture - climate» factors, such as suspension and expulsion rates and student and parent surveys.

It depends on the state, but the procedures for standardized tests could possibly become less strict, which will allow schools and teachers to focus more on other subjects and creative activities rather than teaching to the test.

It is for this reason that we should keep an eye on New Hampshire's pilot of a new kind of assessment, one that more holistically examines multiple measures of student performance and focuses less on standardized testing.

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.

Yet most schools don't offer the courses due to budget constraints, a lack of teachers, and the need to focus more on subjects included in standardized tests.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Updatest scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly UpdaTest Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).

When children have the skills to listen, calm down, empathize with others, and solve problems, they can focus more on their studies — in fact, a recent CASEL study showed that students who receive SEL instruction improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests.