Sentences with phrase «narrow measures»

The first problem is that secondary education is a very narrow measure of education accumulation.

A holistic evaluation that goes beyond a few narrowed measures?

Combined with excessive workload and a system which reduces education to narrow measures of success, it is no surprise that head teachers can not fill vacancies.

«The current educational accountability system has become overly focused on narrow measures of success and, in some cases, has discouraged schools from providing a rich curriculum for all students focused on 21st century skills they need to acquire.This particularly impacts under - resourced schools that disproportionally serve low - income and students of color.»

And when the tests are too narrow a measure or aren't properly aligned to standards, they provide little concrete information that teachers and schools can use to improve teaching and learning for individual students.

A more narrow measure in the report, used to indicate shadow banking activity that may give rise to financial stability risks, grew to $ 34 trillion in 2015, up 3.2 % from the prior year and excluding data from China.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

What is missing from these arguments is that the scores of the tests that students were given were very narrow measures of what kids could do, and imbuing them with such importance is an insult to authentic assessment.

The report, Preparing young people for the future of work, says that currently at a system level «only narrow measures of education achievement and certain outcomes are captured, valued and prioritised».

«Unfortunately the authors chose narrow measures that do not represent the true range of cognitive and social capacities, and thus biased the results to support what they predicted.

The trend in education policy, exemplified especially by NCLB, has been to combine narrow measures with high stakes, thereby damaging schools» capacity to meet larger goals and often undermining the quality of education.

Rather than maintaining a system that uses narrow measures of student achievement to sanction poorly performing schools, the push is now to implement next - generation learning goals that encourage higher - order thinking skills.

It would be nice (I don't say it's possible) to have some other measure of success at the Bar, and in legal employment, than Bay Street, which is a pretty narrow measure (and according to M Kowalski and others, doomed...).

And when the tests are too narrow a measure or aren't properly aligned to standards, they provide little concrete information teachers and schools can use to improve teaching and learning for individual students.

Recognition that NAPLAN and PISA tests are very narrow measures of the capacities of students and of what schools actually do.

Trump tweeted support this month for «comprehensive» background checks, and Republican leaders have interpreted that as support for a narrow measure aimed at improving the reporting of disqualifying offenses to NICS.

Students advocating a range of new gun control measures met with Republican leaders apparently set on a package of narrower measures; House Speaker Richard Corcoran said here that he saw AR - 15 rifles as legitimate hunting weapons.

However, he said the Senate would work on a narrower measure ensuring that the lesser penalty applies when police order someone with a joint in his pocket to bring it out in the open.

«By this narrow measure, if you have a family who sit one pound below the poverty line, you can do a magical thing,» Mr Duncan Smith said.

These «narrow measures» include the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results and Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks (ATAR).

Critics say that using annual state test scores to rate teachers is too small and narrow a measure and that results fluctuate so much a teacher easily can go from excellent to failure in a year.

Much in the same way that sick banks are established in large group health insurance plans, teachers might find a way to establish group plans that seek to redistribute merit - based pay that recognizes the entirety of the profession rather than the narrow measures of the few.

The state board agrees with a USC professor studying the issue — minimum proficiency is too narrow a measure.

Now, we judge them by a faulty, narrow measure — one standardized test in English and one in math — and then blame them for not being saviors.

Because they are based on a narrow measure — standardized test scores — and don't provide teachers with feedback on how to improve, they should be accompanied by other performance measures, the authors said.

Yes yes, a drag race is a narrow measure of a vehicle... but it is a valid one... the whole powertrain working together to give a result that belies the advertised ratings proves what I'm saying.

This is especially important in the context of evaluating more comprehensive tax reform proposals that contemplate taxing income sources that are not included in narrower measures (e.g., proposals to tax some or all employer contributions to health insurance or to reduce the amount of tax - free income earned within qualified retirement plans by placing tighter limits on contributions).

The narrowest measure, M1, is restricted to the most liquid forms of money; it consists of currency in the hands of the public; travelers checks; demand deposits, and other deposits against which checks can be written.

It would certainly be unrealistic for the UK to seek to suspend all free movement of people, but it could try a narrower measure such as (say) a labour market test for all employment contracts under # 20K for a couple of years.

This is the narrowest measure of money.