Sentences with phrase «of teaching to test»

WHEREAS, while giving off the appearance of a better education, this type of teaching to the test behavior actually limits the amount of quality content in deference to test taking strategies; and

As Superintendent, I will replace the current testing system with common sense assessments in reading, writing, and math that will focus education on in - depth learning instead of teaching to a test.

Additionally, when asked how the use of student growth measures has affected their own instruction, the most common response is increase of teaching to the test.

Educators and policymakers criticize NCLB for circumscribing curricula by encouraging the practice of teaching to the test.

Other scholars made similar arguments about the negative consequences of teaching to the test.

However, in the past two years, the nature of teaching these topics has changed as a direct result of America's willingness to embrace or at least tolerate the cult of teaching to the test.

It will take more long - term studies of the impact of teaching to test such theories.

Governor Malloy went so far as to make it clear that he doesn't mind a policy of teaching to the test, as long as test scores go up.

«As passionate as I am about [Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's] test fixation, and the need to focus more on teaching and learning instead of teaching to the test, the stakes are, will children have a public education?»

Long days, growing challenges Fighting the stress of teaching to the test NEA Survey: Nearly Half Of Teachers Consider Leaving Profession Due to Standardized Testing This video focuses on the impact of growing teacher workload in Milwaukee Public Schools and the role Milwaukee Teachers»...

The ambiguity of teaching to the test.

This has the potential to create an even greater sense of teaching to the test and potentially taking the focus off of quality instruction.

We are tired of teaching to a test.

This results in all manner of teaching to the test, epic amounts of revision, pressure, stress on pupils and parents, and yes, cheating by schools.

Look towards how we can solve the problem of teaching to the test.

Parents at forums shared anecdotal evidence of teaching to the test, less - creative teaching methods, and narrowing of instruction.

It's how far we still must go to unleash innovation and creativity in our classrooms, to break a culture of teaching to the test, and to equip our students for success in an economy fueled by inquiry and imagination.

This provides an indirect test of the extent of teaching to the test, as gains due to crude test - prep strategies are less likely to persist over time than gains produced by improved instruction.

«There is a clear and present danger of teaching to the test,» said Atkinson.

It is possible that the critics of testing are right, that some or even all of the gains measured only by state tests are the product of teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

In an era where high - stakes tests have increased concern over test anxiety and introduced debate over the merits of teaching to the test, it may seem odd to promote a teaching method called «test - enhanced learning.»

They incite the bad habit of teaching to tests and not covering material that will not be evaluated.

Not exact matches

By 2007, he had observed kids teaching themselves to e-mail and play games so often that he wanted to test the capability of what appeared to be a self - organizing learning system.

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

Microsoft and the China University of Technology and Science taught a computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better than a college postgraduate.

This year's top teachers have withstood the tests of time, taught through bear and bull markets, and have consistently imparted life - changing lessons to MBA students year after year.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momenTo test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momento make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the momento focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

While it was once true that most testing of potential new drugs took place in medical schools and teaching hospitals, that is no longer the case, and in Elliott's view the change has given rise to serious problems and abuses.

When looking for «fruit,» here are three specific tests to apply to any teacher to determine the accuracy of his or her teaching:

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They can «study» their religion, but it still comes down to faith in the teachings, and personal experience, neither of which can ever be meaningfully tested true or false in any kind of objective way.

We anticipate a similar period of planning, experimentation and testing — and similar pains of adjustment as we learn to teach in ways none of us was taught.

We reserve the right to test what they say against the teaching of Scripture.

I can not escape the conclusion that you will come out convinced that, both in general and in detail, the ethics of the Bible, from the Ten Commandments to the character and teaching of Christ, meet the test.

I like the idea of openness to lots of teachings, testing them practically in the ongoing life of the church.»

I have found after 25 yrs of hands on ministry that a questioning mind, always ready to test what is being taught is the best place to be.

Whether that means not participating in an organized religion but still studying its teachings, proposing a new mathematical theory to explain the origin of the universe that can't easily be tested experimentally, taking the notion of a personal God and trying to have an actual personal, and not a corporate, herd - instinct, everyone - else - is - doing - it, relationship?

But beyond the drama of these moments that put Jesus» «instructions» to the test, there are his words uttered in the relative calm of the teaching situation.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

When I was going to school (back in the stone age) teachers were asked to be aware of religious holiday and not schedule tests or teaching of important new concepts.

The formation and testing of teachers being prepared to teach sex education can not reasonably be achieved at a one or two day in - service programme.

While reading Vincent of Lerins's fifth - century aids to remembering (Commonitory) I gained the essential hermeneutical foothold in defining ecumenical teaching under the threefold test of catholicity as «that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all» (quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est).

It was to understanding the teaching of the Catholic faith what the Keystone cops were to passing the driving test.

The presupposition behind the counsel to teach the values that Americans share is presumably that American values do pass the test of external and overriding criteria based on shared human experience.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

About five percent are used for teaching purposes, another five percent for diagnosis of disease, twenty percent for production of biological substances («biologicals») and for toxicity testing, thirty percent in development of drugs and their testing, and forty percent for other research activities such as the present work in genetic engineering to increase the size of sheep and pigs.

You might not be aware, but the educational system teaches kids to think for themselves, ask questions, scrutinize the validity of an explanation or an authority figure, and use inductive and deductive reasoning as a part of a process to ask questions, analyze and test a hypothesis.

«18 There is no reference here to the passion and crucifixion, the central events in the life of Jesus, the supreme tests of his teaching.

It was Galileo who initially tested the boundaries of the Dual Revelation Theory by proposing that, contrary to the teachings of the church, the earth revolved around the sun, rather than the sun revolving around the earth.