Sentences with phrase «much focus on test»

«We are pleased to see Ofsted agreeing with us that there is too much focus on test results rather than learning.

At higher income schools, where most kids scored proficient on the state tests, there wasn't as much focus on test prep.

But at higher - income schools, where kids tended to do better on those tests, there wasn't as much focus on test prep.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Education: Too Much Focus on Testing (Seattle Times) Mentions Daniel Koretz's book, The Testing Charade, which explains why high - stakes policies such as graduation tests lead to score inflation.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

Not exact matches

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

It creates more economical means for our industry to self - regulate, focus on testing, spot audits and compliance checks, and to build on TOP members» great work (much of it voluntary) over the past decades promoting Tasmanian organic products.

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.

But focusing so much on standardized test scores is the opposite of how members of most professions are evaluated.»

It is moving from a system that was almost entirely focused on standardized tests to one that has a much broader range.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

«There is too much focus and too much stress on testing,» said Concetta Aloi, the PTA president of Public School 200 in Brooklyn.

23andMe: Scanning for Genome - Wide Associations Much of the recent hype in ancestry testing has focused on genome - wide association tests, which can rapidly scan hundreds of thousands of SNPs.

Future work will focus on collecting SSIP over a much wider range of frequencies (e.g. 0.05 - 500 Hz), testing the method for detecting naturally occurring zones of bioreduction, and specifying system requirements for widespread application.

Unfortunately, as Western medicine has evolved, the focus has been on more «sophisticated» testing procedures without much emphasis on effective solutions.

Students learn so much during the teacher training process, it's hard to know what to focus on while you are studying for your final test out.

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

Though a number of the doctors are rather improbably good - looking, the focus is very much on their work at the hospital as they move from naïve newbies to tried - and - tested veterans themselves, while thankfully retaining a sense of earnest commitment.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

Survey items focusing on test preparation activities were much more weakly related to student achievement gains than items focusing on instructional quality.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

Although much of the debate surrounding Common Core has focused on the nature of the curriculum for each grade level, proponents have also sought to raise the proficiency level on tests that assess student learning.

Most of us think that schools and districts focus too much on tests and not enough on student work.

«Focusing too much on test scores can reinforce the identity of the discarded child,» Ungar explains.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

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.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

The report highlighted that «students are spending too much time preparing for and taking tests,» teachers were «teaching to the test,» and the narrow focus on ELA and math has «diminished the joy in learning, inhibited creativity, and taken time away from other subjects.»

The State of Education survey also revealed that more than three - quarters (78 per cent) of secondary school leaders believe too much focus is placed on academic testing as a measure of pupils» success.

-- those kinds of conversations around data can lead to much more productive work than the ones that are focused on «[let's use] data to think about how we're going to improve test scores».

There was — and will continue to be — much to argue about, including test scores, graduation rates, and class sizes (see Diane Ravitch and / or Sol Stern at «related posts» below), but there is no doubt that Klein and Bloomberg have introduced some much needed common sense, business management practices, accountability, and, yes, a laser - like focus on student achievement, to a system that had become unmanageable and unproductive.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

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.

For instance, in addition to the use of test scores and SGP, much of the discussion focused on separate achievement measures for each teacher that will be developed by individual teachers and their principals.

Much of their attention is focused on which indicators of school quality or student success they will use to provide a more holistic measure of school performance than the test - based measures of the past.

«Teachers face a tremendous challenge in providing the best education for all students, particularly when forced to spend so much time focused on standardized tests.

More Than a Score parents give CPS a «D» grade for a promotion policy that continues to focus too much on test scores and ignores the value of report cards.

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

Prompted in part by complaints that high schools were spending too much time on standardized testing, lawmakers last summer ordered a rewrite of the rules for graduation and a significant change in focus.

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.

Still, there would not be compelling evidence that national standards produce optimal outcomes; economic growth, as well as personal fulfillment, could very well require an education focused on much more than just high test scores.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.