Sentences with phrase «of real learning»

The results are not pretty; not in terms of real learning, mental health or preparation for the 21st century job market.

The third article, Real Learning: Bottom - Up Learning From The Top Down, looks at the role of Real Learning in organizational transformation.

We'll use the example of Real Learning to show some seat - of - the - pants approaches that have stood the test of time.

With standardized tests, test prep becomes the curriculum, and all students — black, brown, white, poor, and affluent — are deprived of real learning.

For test results to be valid measures of real learning, students must have been taught a full curriculum.

Finding 5: Reporting against year - level achievement standards hides both progress and attainment for some students and does not amount to a diagnostic assessment of real learning needs which — if met — would lead to growth in learning

Try one of these real learning activities.

«This was about using technology and networks in service of a real learning goal.

Moreover, the similarity of our findings on the Stanford - 9 and FCAT math tests suggests that the gains being made by schools facing voucher competition are the result of real learning and not simply manipulations of the state's high - stakes testing system (see Figure 2).

The mission of the Real Learning for Real Life coalition is to close achievement gaps and prepare the whole student for college, career, and life after high school.

Good teacher observation, documentation of student work, and performance - based assessment, all of which involve the direct evaluation of real learning tasks, provide useful material for teachers, parents, and the public.

Critics argued that by spending so much of the funding for struggling schools on test - preparation software, poor schools had less money left for the kind of improvements at the heart of real learning.

As a DCPS graduate I long held the opinion that test scores were overemphasized in assessing student progress at the expense of real learning.

It's not a valid measure of performance change, it is simply another tool in the toolbelt of helping people learn and engage - but not a valid assessment of real learning... that you'll see on the job.

And, standardized test scores may only tap a small % of real learning.