Sentences with phrase «of standardized»

When several students opt out of standardized tests, how do you communicate these actions to the larger school community?

According to the survey, parent opinion reads like a photocopy of the union's agenda — supportive of more investment in schools and teachers, wary of standardized testing, skeptical about evaluating teachers based on student performance, and resistant to the expansion of choice.

We used performance on 12 of these standardized tests as rough measures of the average level of cognitive skill in a given country.

In the face of these powerful forces, MI theory has served as a reminder to educators to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child and has also offered conceptual support for educators seeking to prevent individual students from being stigmatized by a low score on one of these standardized tests.

Some forms of standardized, multiple choice tests can be helpful in both areas.

Whatever one thinks of standardized tests, it is hard to argue that fragmenting or complicating academic measurement will aid parents whose children attend less elite schools that don't have top - notch college lists to validate institutional quality.

In this era of standardized testing and reduced decision - making for teachers, field trips seem to be an endangered experience.

Thus, we can say that the SCORM standard is a set of standardized specifications explaining developers how Learning Management Systems should read and present the eLearning content and how they should interact.

The demands of standardized testing often force schools instead to emphasize rote learning in English, neglecting the incredible asset of children's native languages and much of what researchers have discovered about how children learn second languages.

In this world of standardized testing ~ does our current system of evaluation in education mirror the real world ~ where students will spend the rest of their lives working and striving for success?

Sadler's research, «Psychometric Models of Student Conceptions in Science: Reconciling Qualitative Studies and Distractor - Driven Assessment Instruments,» recently published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, focuses on integrating the newest discoveries on how students» understand and learn scientific concepts into the design of standardized tests.

Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»

While you wouldn't know it based on the shallow media coverage, many educators consider the new generation of standardized tests to be far superior at assessing student learning than any previous tests.

Opponents of standardized tests often ignore the vital role assessments play in the struggle for educational equity.

He talks lyrically about his own Depression - era school experience in Arkansas's Ouachita Mountains, the lack of standardized equipment, and the richness of the play experience.

Kennedy acknowledged that there are roadblocks to schools adopting the Speak Truth to Power curriculum, citing as example how social studies loses its place in an era of standardized testing.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

Read: Being Creative in the World of Standardized Testing

The rise in the number of non-traditional superintendents can be tied, in part, to the rise of standardized tests as a measure of what is happening in the classroom, according to the AASA's Jay Matthews.

For their platform, party insiders voted to «support enabling parents to opt their children out of standardized tests.»

In another finding, expected by some to fuel the controversy that surrounds the issue of standardized testing, the test results showed that non-military white youths scored almost twice as high as black civilian youths, with Hispanic civilians scoring in between the levels of the other two groups.

They would sometimes write «u» instead of «you» in their essays, or a lowercase «i» instead of «I.» The high school, like many others, had been suffering from a lack of standardized grammar instruction throughout the grades.

«The rash of standardized testing after the No Child Left Behind Act became law in the early 2000s did not raise achievement averages very much,» he observes, but the backlash that has led states to ease back on testing isn't being replaced by anything that's apt to work better.

In order to keep up with the pressures of standardized tests, teachers commonly use videos, Powerpoints, and other multimedia to teach lessons in a more concise fashion.

In the era of standardized testing, incorporating these aforementioned lessons in the classroom isn't easy.

The report took aim at the validity of standardized - test score gains in Texas.

The Singapore texts and methods were so effective in College Gardens that the scores of students there on the math computation portion of the standardized Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) rose from the 50th and 60th percentiles to the low 90s in the first 4 years they were used.

A federal appeals court overturns a lower - court ruling that New York State's law requiring disclosure of standardized - test information conflicted with federal copyright law.

The purpose of a standardized test is to provide us a comparable metric for a small subset of what schools are supposed to produce, and it's very valuable for that purpose.

In other words, whatever the limitations of standardized tests may be, test - based value - added scores do, in fact, provide valuable information about the things most people care most about.

The NAACP is urging colleges to de-emphasize the use of standardized tests in the admissions process.

Those systems lean heavily on the results of standardized, statewide reading and math tests.

With a better understanding of why it is so inane — and destructive — to evaluate schools using students» scores on the wrong species of standardized tests, you can persuade anyone who'll listen that policy makers need to make better choices.

A second kind of instructionally insensitive test is the sort of standardized achievement test that many states have developed for accountability during the past two decades.

Schools around the world have become places of standardized routines that aim at predetermined attainment targets in the name of improving competitiveness,» Sahlberg said.

And all of this occurs in a climate of standardized testing, where school funding and teacher employment may well be on the line.

Over the years, developers of standardized achievement tests have learned that if they can link students» success on a question to students» socioeconomic status (SES), then about half of the test takers usually answer that item correctly.

Hundreds of standardized tests are available, and teachers use them primarily to assess both their own and their students» progress.

The realities of standardized tests and increasingly structured, if not synchronized, curriculum continue to build classroom stress levels.

Earth Day, observed by nearly 20 % of the world, raises the stakes of learning beyond the immediate horse race of standardized scores to the very sustainability of our planet.

Two kinds of standardized achievement tests commonly used for school evaluations are ill suited for that measurement.

Raunkier (1934) plant life - forms were also extrapolated throughout the 7 environments, these plant characteristics show continually expressed distribution patterns which were summarized by imposing the boundaries of Rastrigin's function, Gaussian process model to give spectra, for the results of this standardized analysis see Furze et al., 2013d.

Sacks also challenges the supposed objectivity of standardized tests and shows how repeated administration of very similar tests produces test - score increases that may have little to do with real changes in achievement.

Professor Daniel Koretz points out that there was a movement in New York City by parents to opt out of standardized testing even before the Common Core.

The public's commitment to the use of standardized tests to assess students and schools has not declined.

Critical thinking, which has long been relegated to the back of the classroom in favor of standardized - testing - friendly rote learning, should be the priority in teaching math.

Nicholas Lemann, in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, builds an even more challenging case against the dominance of standardized tests in education.

The corporate world provides useful data about simulations designed to change behavior and obtain results (which is exactly what we hope will be learned in many situations but is something that few, if any, of our standardized achievement tests measure).

This is a pedagogy useful for creating armies of number crunchers and for downgrading teachers to supervising the administration of standardized tests, but not much more.