Sentences with phrase «of national standardized testing»

The Department of Education's continued emphasis on comparing students across state lines is clearly aimed at implementing a scheme of national standardized testing controlled, at least in a de facto fashion, by the federal government.

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«The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.»

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.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

At the same time, the 2010 national Common Core standards were being implemented, and the number of standardized tests that students were required to take multiplied.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

After just six weeks of the study, all of the children improved their scores in a standardized fifty question national test.

Quintanilla, who works at the National Braille Press as its director of major gifts and planned giving, is looking for a tool that could help blind children read maps and graphs when taking standardized tests.

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

• Anya Kamenetz education reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washingtonational coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League WashingtoNational Urban League Washington Bureau

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

Book Claims Negative Impact of SATs In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

More than 90 percent of Southern students» scores on standardized tests in the 1986 - 87 school year were at or above national averages, a report by the Southern Regional Education Board has found.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

Members of these groups were told about either the state ranking of the average student in the respondent's district on standardized tests of achievement or the national ranking of the performance of the average student in the district.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Based on their research, they developed the National College and Career Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.

While nations around the world introduced heavy standardized testing regimes in the 1990s, the Finnish National Board of Education concluded that such tests would consume too much instructional time, cost too much to construct, proctor, and grade, and generate undue stress.

In the midst of her first swing through California, the president - elect of the National Education Association praised the Common Core State Standards and California's measured approach in implementing them but warned about the use of standardized tests.

And then we asked Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, which supports the use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, to make an argument for why kids shouldn't opt out of tests.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

It's not that parents and voters have turned against the principle of using of standardized tests to monitor school and student performance: National surveys continue to show 2 - to - 1 support for the practice.

FairTest's Assessment Reform Network — a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneTesting (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally benetesting and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.

An analysis of national and metropolitan data on public school populations and state standardized test scores for 84,077 schools in 2010 and 2011 reveals that:

When all else fails, opponents of high standards, simply default to politically - driven rhetoric describing them as «national» standards, a «nationalized test» and a «standardized curriculum.»

The Finnish answer to standardized tests has been to give exams to small but statistically significant samples of students and to trust teachers — so much so that the National Board of Education closed its inspectorate in 1991.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

Even within a framework of student autonomy and the minimal use of standardized quizzes and tests, our students manage to beat the local, state, and sometimes national averages in specific content knowledge.

The number of students in alternative schools showed moderate increases contemporaneous with new national mandates regarding standardized testing and graduation rates.

They also embrace standardized testing as a way to measure student achievement, and both call for all states to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), called «the nation's report card,» which tests students in grades four, eight, and twelve in various subject areas.

These schools had fewer than 15 percent of their students performing at the national norm on standardized tests.

Schools must use a range of assessment tools, not standardized tests alone, to measure students» «authentic» achievement levels, a new report by the National Association of Secondary School Principals concludes.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administers standardized tests to nationally representative samples of U.S. students, including 12th - grade students and 17 - year - olds.

The report, released Wednesday, relies on standards used by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the only national - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achiNational Assessment of Education Progress, the only national - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achinational - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achievement.

National opponents of high - stakes standardized testing say if as few as five or six percent of students were to skip statewide exams, state officials could no longer consider the rest of the test results valid.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

She is a policy analyst for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a Boston - based organization that aims to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers and sTesting, known as FairTest, a Boston - based organization that aims to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers and stesting practices and evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

to politically mandated standardized exam misuse and overuse, said Robert Schaeffer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest)

The prospect of more standardized testing was criticised by the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Russell Hobby, who wrote in a Schools Week column reacting to the manifesto: «School leaders will look on in dread.

This is, she believes, the case with what is probably the most important and far - reaching national policy initiative ever taken, and one that she herself had high hopes for: the No Child Left Behind law, enacted in the administration of President George W. Bush, which essentially forced school systems across the country to teach to standardized tests in grades three through eight.

Bucking a national trend, the new system will not use standardized test scores as a direct measure of performance.

Indiana plans to withdraw from PARCC, one of two national consortia designing standardized tests to align to the Common Core.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers were paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the Common Core standards and the unfair and inappropriate Common Core standardized testing scheme that goes along with those so - called standards.

By contrast, while Pence hasn't advocated for exiting the initiative, he did pull the state out of a national consortium designing new standardized tests.

Lisa Elliott, a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and 18 - year veteran teacher who has devoted her 18 - year professional career to the Alhambra Elementary School District — a Title I school district (i.e., having at least 40 % of the student population from low - income families) located in the Phoenix / Glendale area — expresses in this video how she refuses to be bullied by her district's misuse of standardized test scores.