Sentences with phrase «narrowly focused on test»
Besides, my impression was that this study was narrowly focused on the test of whether natural pathways exist, examined through an attempt to match brines found in water with brines believed to have come from deep below.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the performance of schools in the round and not solely on the basis of narrowly focused test and examination results.»
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.
Third, there is the danger that a reliance on test - based measures will lead teachers to focus narrowly on test - taking skills at the cost of more valuable academic content, especially if administrators do not provide them with clear and proven ways to improve their practice.
The result is that we get a homogeneous set of schools that are narrowly focused on improving test outcomes.
And within tested subjects schools and educators are likely to focus narrowly on tested items at the expense of a more complete understanding of math and English.
Some researchers speculate that those programs didn't offer big enough rewards and that they focused too narrowly on test scores rather than the instructional practices teachers can control more directly.
Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein told the Journal that the poll «indicates that voters are starting to understand the issues with these high - stakes teacher evaluations and how this skews what happens in the classroom to focus narrowly on a single test, rather than on the deep, well - rounded education that students deserve.»
Promoting small schools, they grumble, is a goal too narrowly focused on raising test scores and too insensitive to the communitarian roots of the preexisting small - schools movement.
Education Reform has taken the counter-productive path of focusing narrowly on identifying the «scientifically» validated techniques to maximize math and reading test scores.
«If you tell me that Chicago public schools are producing greater gainsamong disadvantaged students than other disadvantaged students across Illinois, it might be that Chicago students have figured out how to focus more narrowly on tests,» he says.
Texas ASCD's Whole Child approach is an effort to move from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement as measured by test scores in core subjects to a broader definition that promotes the long - term development and success of all children.
Current education policy focuses on a failed strategy of school and district «turnarounds;» characterized by staff shake - ups and pedagogical practices that focus narrowly on raising test scores.
Recent evidence on teacher productivity suggests teachers meaningfully influence noncognitive student outcomes that are commonly overlooked by narrowly focusing on student test scores.
In a humorous look at the real world of DIBELS testing, an elementary school reading intervention coach chronicles how the focus on fluency (narrowly defined as reading speed) has pushed reading comprehension to the side.
The authors added that their motivation for this study was a concern that many school districts are too narrowly focusing on rating teachers based on short - term test gains and they wanted to try to understand what kinds of teaching produce long - term learning benefits.