Sentences with phrase «of high stakes testing»

We're kicking off the summer series by taking a look at the effects of high stakes testing in our schools.

It is true that parents of children in younger grades would be able to still opt their kids out of high stakes testing.

Many lawmakers have been asking for a delay in the implementation, and to put off the consequences of the high stakes tests for school children for another couple of years.

It has commissioned over twelve studies on the impact of high stakes testing policies on minority children.

This factor alone will cause the pressures of high stakes testing to go through the roof.

In an era of high stakes testing, the stakes will never be higher than they will be with the Common Core.

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Besides the issue of high stakes test and data, there is a major movement that needs to occur before teachers will come to the table and negotiate new forms and criteria for evaluation.

As legislators, demand the evidence, particularly the literature that illustrates the damaging effects of high stakes test scores in teacher evaluations.

Learn more about how we can advocate to reduce the role of high stakes testing and ensure that learning time is quality.

In our contemporary world of high stakes testing, education's focus is math, science, and reading.

Parents have voiced that while they are not against testing, they are against the implications the amount of high stakes testing has on their student's future and well - being.

One 2012 study found that instructional quality declined with the rise of high stakes testing, especially in the weeks before the exam.

In today's climate of high stakes testing, business leaders and politicians continue to demand better results with data driven assessments and test scores.

So much for the magic of high stakes tests!

We need to stand up for all children who are experiencing an unprecedented transformation of the learning experience via the expansion of high stakes testing.

For students with significant cognitive disabilities, this type of high stakes testing would not be appropriate.

Ask: What do you think are some of the criticisms of high stakes tests?

Ask: What do you think are the arguments in support of high stakes tests?

Last year she and other teachers at her school declared themselves «teachers of conscience» a form of conscientious objection in relation to the overwhelming negative impact of high stakes testing.

«Last year the State Superintendent was able to remove five state assessments in science and social studies in an effort to cut down on the number of high stakes tests students take.

«We want to see a reduction in the number of high stakes tests students are required to take,» NCAE's Ellis told N.C. Policy Watch, adding that reducing testing was another of the teachers» association's top priorities for this year's legislative session.

But since then, several Regents have been replaced by ones who are critical of high stakes testing and penalties for schools that aren't performing well.

Hostile work conditions with colleagues, high pressure demands of high stakes testing, diminished autonomy, and inadaquate planning time are cited as key reasons why this generation of teaher's psychosocial health is on the decline and they are leaving the profession.

The overtesting era is still strong, but hope arises for opponents of high stakes testing.

The six criteria are: 1) rejection of high stakes testing, 2) the professionalization of teaching, 3) rejection of public school privatization 4) financial support 5) how well taxpayers resources are spent and 6) children's chances for success.

He said, «In the present environment of high stakes testing, budgetary challenges, increased demands on educators and competition for students attention, everyone in the school benefits when humor is part of the pedagogy.

Maybe to a plethora of high stakes tests and other assessments that already exist across our planet we can consider including questions that ask students: «How might you plan to spend the next 24 to 36 hours of your life?

«All of us think our children should be challenged by difficult tasks in school and that the performance of teachers in the classroom should be judged by the highest standards, but there is no scientific validity whatsoever to the use of high stakes tests as the primary instrument for evaluating children and teachers.

Reclaiming Camelot: Capturing the Reflections of Exemplary, Veteran Middle School Teachers in an Age of High Stakes Testing and Accountability Through Narrative Inquiry, Nancy Fichtman Dana, Darby Claire Delane, and Paul George

Has nearly 20 years of high stakes testing undermined the quality of life in the school day??

Given the primacy of high stakes tests in many locations, how do we ensure that curriculum and instruction remain tools for shaping lives in positive ways?

«It is shocking that our national union leader is proposing a national high stakes exam for educators, while at the same time leading a national campaign supposedly against the overuse of high stakes testing for students,» said Julie Cavanagh, NYC teacher and UFT presidential candidate with MORE caucus.

Potential reduction on the reliance of high stakes testing, also a good thing.»

Once an advocate of high stakes testing and school accountability for student performance, Ravitch's current positions are a dramatic turnabout.

State Superintendent Glenda Ritz is no fan of high stakes tests.

The critical conversation that needs to be had is not about the administration of high stakes testing, but rather about which data and information can be gleaned from assessment in order to improve student achievement and learning.

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

NCLB brought an unforgiving and continuing era of high stakes testing infused with constantly moving, often unattainable «goals.»

However, the UFT is calling for a moratorium on using the results of high stakes tests for teacher evaluations until alterations to the local portion of the Measures of Student Learning portion of the system can be worked out in contract negotiations.

«We've got to have the courage to not enter a new round of high stakes testing.»

It can be hard to disentangle how much of the improved test scores can be credited to school choice and competition and how much to the introduction of high stakes testing.