Sentences with phrase «not focusing on standardized tests»

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

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TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

«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.

«I would help schools implement programs that focus on the whole child and create productive members of society, by addressing components of education that can not be measured on standardized tests,» said Cossondra George.

As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

«A» student Erin Farley (@erinnnfarley) says she was not a great test taker and she wonders: «Is the focus on standardized testing useful for students in their future careers?»

Merseth says the aim isn't just to create a charter that must meets state guidelines and scores well on standardized tests but also to focus on the qualitative, social, moral, and emotional questions facing school design.

That said, standardized tests obviously don't measure the myriad other ways children need to develop to be contributing members of society, and we need to make sure that schools don't overly focus on core subjects and fail to educate the whole child.

Project - based learning and standardized tests don't mix The Hechinger Report This article recently made the rounds on social media — it focuses on PBL schools around Philadelphia and highlights the various alternative ways they measure student learning.

A health expert writes that while there isn't likely to be peace in the education world over charter schools and standardized testing, on this everyone should agree: The need to focus attention on disparities among our youth in education and in health.

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.

Assessment information used in accountability must focus on those areas deemed most important, not only those areas that are easiest to measure with inexpensive tools, such as standardized tests, though such tools have a place in the accountability process.

«I have to focus on standardized test prep and don't have time for PBL.»

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

This includes one where I consider my philosophical shift from not worrying about my student's standardized test scores to deciding that I need to play the high stakes testing game and focus on preparing my students for their standardized tests.

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.

What the study pointed out is that you can improve your «crystallized» smarts and not improve your «fluid» smarts... and of course the argument can be made that we need both, and of course standardized testing focuses on only one.

Tying teacher evals to student test scores on a narrow focus standardized test is a dumb idea and putting it off for a year won't make it any better.

Focusing on the most important test of all, you point out that, «Paul makes the point that the state standardized tests are not very helpful.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

Most efforts to lift struggling schools focus on students with the lowest scores on standardized tests, as well as students who are «on the bubble» — not college - bound students who presumably are meeting grade - level expectations.

As Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests increTests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests incretests increased.

Measuring Academic Performance: The Case for Focusing on Grades Despite all the attention to standardized tests, a growing body of research shows that achievement test scores are not strong predictors of whether students will graduate from high school or college.

Research on the performance of charter school students should not focus exclusively on standardized test scores but analyze other outcomes as well, including participation in advanced courses, graduation rates, and college attendance and completion.

Yet most schools don't offer the courses due to budget constraints, a lack of teachers, and the need to focus more on subjects included in standardized tests.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Updatest scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly UpdaTest Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).