Sentences with phrase «much focus on test scores»

«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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

-- 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».

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

And won't we, by focusing so much on test scores — especially if we're going to publish them by teachers» names — motivate teachers to want to teach in the grades that aren't part of the number - crunching?

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

I also strongly believe that the PLCs should not be focused on improving test scores but rather on improving the other parts of student's education that do not receive as much attention as test skills and content.

But its inflexible accountability provisions have become an obstacle to progress and have focused schools too much on a single test score.

The analysis, based on test scores in maths and science, is a much wider global map of education standards than the OECD's Pisa tests, which focus on more affluent industrialised countries.

Much of the anxiety surrounding math comes directly from classrooms that don't actively advocate for a growth mindset — a way of thinking that emphasizes effort and understanding concepts instead of focusing solely on test scores and right answers.

«We think it's a much more honest, much more comprehensive, much more holistic [measure] that goes way beyond an artificial focus on one test score,» Duncan said.

As much as 30 percent of the school year is spent testing and focusing on reaching a specific cut score on one day of the year.

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

It makes more sense to focus on how much test scores have grown at a school rather than whether scores rise to a uniform standard.

Much of America's push on education these days is focused on success measured through higher test scores and better grades, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the subjects aggregated under the familiar acronym STEM.