Sentences with word «nontested»
"Nontested" means that something has not been subjected to a test or examination to determine its validity, accuracy, or effectiveness. Full definition
They also argue that it is unfair for teachers in nontested subjects to be judged by the scores of students they don't even teach, as some states» evaluation systems require.
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Other nontest outcomes were found to be valid but showed no evidence of a TFA effect.
That may be because in Tennessee, teachers of nontested grades and subjects get part of their evaluation score based on schoolwide performance.
For the 2013 — 14 and 2014 — 15 school years, teachers with poor ratings based on state measures of student learning can have their final ratings recalculated using locally designed assessments or other nontest measures of student performance, according to the agreement.
«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.
A recent Rand report1 mentions that schools too rarely gather and study nontest data, including observation data on instruction and reform implementation, results from stakeholder satisfaction surveys, and reviews of student work.
At the start of each lunge, the subjects lined up the distal end of their first hallux of their forward, nontested foot to a line that was taped at 80 cm from a reference point.
As further evidence, we considered descriptive information on nontest outcomes.
But for nontested subject teachers, there was no statistically significant effect.
Despite a large number of studies investigating the TFA effect on math and English achievement, little is known about nontested outcomes.
Fairly rewarding the performance of teachers of nontested subjects and grades.
Counselors and social workers shall interpret the statements in this rule as applying to the whole range of appraisal techniques, including test and nontest data.
Prior research suggests that such intensive test - based accountability can lead to behaviors, such as teaching to the test, that increase scores without improvements in underlying learning or through reduced learning in nontested subjects.
The criteria call for using students» individualized education programs, or IEPs, as a gauge for measuring their achievement in nontested subjects.
Finally, we find no evidence that our results reflect teacher turnover from school to school or from grade to grade that causes them not to appear in our data in later years (for example, by moving to a nontested grade or leaving the Cincinnati Public Schools).
Kentucky, for instance, considers the quality of schools» programs in nontested subjects, such as world languages, arts, and humanities.
We validate our use of nontest student outcomes to assess differences in teacher productivity using the quasi-experimental teacher switching methods of Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014) and find multiple cases in which these tests reject the validity of candidate nontest outcomes.