Sentences with phrase «narrowing of the curriculum»

School leaders should be able to put the needs of their students first, and no one benefits from this further narrowing of the curriculum.

Challenges: Time to perform the check and to analyse the results; Not having additional resources allocated to each school — funding a concern; Risk of narrowing of curriculum.

«The more narrowing of the curriculum occurs and the more teachers feel compelled to teach to Sats, the more teachers will be unhappy.

A natural narrowing of curriculum occurs.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

And lower stakes tests that are primarily about information rather than coercion will produce much less harmful narrowing of the curriculum.

The usual complaints about narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test surfaced, as did the question of allocating resources away from already troubled schools.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that current law drives down standards, weakens accountability, causes narrowing of the curriculum and labels too many schools as failing.

This is a substantial narrowing of the curriculum and is already having a serious impact on the learning and career options open to students.»

This is valid reasoning, but ultimately the CCSSI must pursue standards development in other core subjects to avoid an unintended narrowing of the curriculum and, subsequently, our testing and accountability systems.

The high - stakes system has led to a «narrowing of the curriculum with a focus on English and maths at the expense of other subjects like science, humanities and the arts», Carmichael adds.

She began to research the law's effects and concluded that it had led to a serious narrowing of curriculum that reduced or eliminated science, the arts and other subjects; an obsession with test prep and testing; and plunging morale among teachers.

For example, we strongly support doing away with the adequate yearly progress measurement, and agree that requiring states to adopt unreliable test - based principal and teacher evaluation will only lead to an overemphasis on standardized tests and the further narrowing of the curriculum.

For instance, if all the weight were placed on student test scores, then the risk of narrowing of the curriculum or cheating would rise.

Poor academic achievement despite intelligence; lack of support for learners» needs; lack of respect for children - their personalities and gifts; the increasing stress of testing and attainment targets; poor interaction with others in schools - both children and teachers alike; narrowing of the curriculum; intense pressure; unreasonable expectation put upon children and teenagers.

This should be helpful in counteracting the narrowing of the curriculum.

Some have responded to this narrowing of the curriculum by saying the nation should back off of rigid testing.

Our test scores are rising, but I worry about the long - term effects: narrowing of the curriculum, loss of innovation, effects on students» lifelong learning and interest in reading, equity, master teacher retention, and the development of future teacher leadership.

This narrowing of the curriculum can have an effect on teachers» stress levels because it clashes with their beliefs, according to Brian Apter, chair of the division of educational and child psychologists at the British Psychological Society.

Professional educators and their organizations were largely absent from the education summits, and complaints against policy shifts that encouraged «narrowing of the curriculum» and «teaching to the test» began to crop up.

The law unintentionally incentivized a focus on test prep and the narrowing of the curriculum in some schools, as well as the over-testing of students in some places.

Sixty - seven per cent said they feel it is due to pressure from schools to do well; 50 per cent said it was due to a narrowing of the curriculum, and 48 per cent said it was due to the pressure they put on themselves to do well academically.

«ESSA's Well - Rounded Education» by Scott D. Jones and Emily Workman After No Child Left Behind unintentionally spurred a narrowing of the curriculum, ESSA has over 20 references to a well - rounded education.

But we all know that this progress came with some serious unintended consequences: Teaching to the test, narrowing of the curriculum, and benign neglect for children at the middle and top of the performance spectrum.

«It created an over-focus on the exam itself and a narrowing of the curriculum in some cases to the things that were assessed.»

This singular focus has resulted in several unintended and undesirable consequences, including over testing, a narrowing of the curriculum, and a de-emphasis of untested subjects and concepts — the arts, civics, and social and emotional skills, among many others — that are just as important to a student's development and long - term success.

In addition, in many districts that enroll high percentages of historically underserved students, standardized testing has led to teaching to the test and narrowing of the curriculum that has sapped the curiosity out of students.

ESSA is meant to help reverse that narrowing of curriculum and focus on assessment from NCLB.

It has also led to a narrowing of the curriculum.

However the new primary curriculum, inspectors found, could risk as narrowing of the curriculum — with teachers highlighting concerns about science, foreign languages and design and technology.

Tying educator evaluation and school ranking / standing corrupts the testing system and causes test - prep and narrowing of the curriculum.

High - stakes testing for every course means a narrowing of curriculum and requires teaching to the test

One hypothesis on how this links to primary assessment is that reading and writing tests might start to include knowledge from other subjects, such as history and geography, to avoid a narrowing of the curriculum (which may be what is meant by «teaching to the test»).

What it has led to is a general malaise among our profession, one that has accepted a narrowing of the curriculum, a teaching to the test mentality, and a poorly constructed redefinition of what a good education is.

Landsman and Gorski decry what they see as the narrowing of curriculum, overemphasis on test scores, and overstandardization of curriculum in ways that undercut teaching critical thinking.

The narrowing of the curriculum to math and English language arts under No Child Left Behind has been well documented.

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.

With the move towards 90 per cent of students studying the EBacc by 2025, the result will be an imposition of uniformity and the narrowing of the curriculum.

The committee wants the government to change the data reported in the annual performance tables to help avoid a narrowing of the curriculum and «teaching to the test».

«Vasquez Heilig (2011) studied majority - minority urban and rural schools in Texas and found that teachers (11 of 33) and principals (6 of 7) in his study detailed aspects of «teaching to the test» and the impact of exit testing on the narrowing of the curriculum.

It's encouraging a narrowing of the curriculum.

This evaluation practice has been slammed by assessment experts as invalid and unreliable, and has led to the narrowing of curriculum, with emphasis on the two subjects for which there are standardized tests, math and English Language arts.