Sentences with phrase «of test scores reinforced»

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The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

«Focusing too much on test scores can reinforce the identity of the discarded child,» Ungar explains.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

This evidence of superior performance was reinforced by the increased portion of scores above 80 percent on all of the tests.

This prediction is reinforced by evidence of «ceiling effects» in standardized tests; students in the upper tracks, as described above, are likely to have higher scores and to hit the ceiling with little growth.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.