Sentences with phrase «on a single test»

For starters, we faced inaccurate criticisms of our policies, like the assertion that we were forcing teachers to be fired based on a single test score.

However, high stakes decisions involving tracking, grade promotion, admission to dual - credit courses and graduation based on a single testing event present major educational and motivational challenges.

Schools need to use multiple assessments to evaluate students rather than relying on a single test for a retention decision.

A psychological assessment is never focused on a single test score or number.

The current system should not be simply repeated with a greater emphasis on a single test score.

Many teachers will tell you that you can't get a true indicator of what any particular student is capable of on a single test on any particular day.

Most fundamentally, accountability systems that focus entirely or almost entirely on scores on a single test simply don't work well.

The expectation that each teacher can be fairly evaluated on a single test without regard to the different traits of each student is like asking someone to bake a cake with only one ingredient.

What I think he meant is this: We can't judge our students by how they perform on a single test.

A student's mastery of knowledge or of a skill must not be evaluated by performance on a single test question alone on the predictive interim assessment.

For example, reliance on a single test score for gifted education services may exclude selection of students with different cultural experiences and opportunities.

They also enable educators to build models of student learning and proficiency by capturing many observations of a student over time, without the pressure of performance on a single test.

We think it's very important not to focus on a single test but that students actually have access to ongoing support during their course and ongoing assessment.

Heavy emphasis placed on a single test result encourages «teaching only to the test» and «narrowing down» the curriculum, activities that deny each student — especially high - need students — a full educational experience.

(1) Diagnosis is never based on a single test result.

Schools, and those of us working in them, are deemed «failing» based solely on a single test's scores, with no consideration of the growth in our students» scores.

We can not rely on single testing instruments (such as I.Q. tests) to identify and place students in gifted programs.

There can be oral assessments, portfolio assessments, multiple - choice assessments — a variety of them — but we must make sure we are not reliant on a single test to measure whether a student is proficient about this issue or any other issue.

That's the case with dozens of other «screened» high schools in New York, too, which are selective — often highly so — but don't rely exclusively on a single test score to decide who gets in.

Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein told the Journal that the poll «indicates that voters are starting to understand the issues with these high - stakes teacher evaluations and how this skews what happens in the classroom to focus narrowly on a single test, rather than on the deep, well - rounded education that students deserve.»

The WEA, which argues that it's wrong to put so much emphasis on a single test like the WASL, has endorsed one of Bergeson's challengers, former state Superintendent Judith Billings.

In North Carolina, the school performance report system uses the single - grade method, and it is based on a single test in grades 3 - 8, and a small number of factors for high schools.

The New York Times article also noted that making educational decisions based on a single test violates the standards of the measurement profession itself and has been criticized by a National Academy of Science blue ribbon panel.

High stakes testing is an inaccurate measure of the knowledge of students because it rates them based on how they did on a single day and on a single test rather than on how they did during a full year of work and on many different kinds of assessment methods.

Over the years, various provincial Teachers» Federations have criticized the Fraser Institute School Rankings as being too dependent on a single test.

Purchasing a kitten, based on its being coronavirus antibody or antigen (RT - PCR) negative on a single test does not guarantee the cat can not develop the intestinal or the «malignant» form of FIP (although it makes it somewhat less likely).

Merged hardware and mechanical requirements for several units under one universal ITA on a single test adapter, and designed the interface circuits to mate to the unit - under - test.

«So much emphasis [is] being placed on a single test score.

Evaluating your site's speed based solely on a single test or metric provides an incomplete picture.

Teachers unions have long opposed linking test scores with evaluations and teacher pay because they believe it's unfair to judge a teacher's performance on a single test.

Thus, evaluation systems that rely on a single test - based metric sitting in isolation alongside a rating based on classroom observations are not particularly helpful in either understanding or improving the quality of teaching, and may be harmful.

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

As if all of this wasn't clear enough, in what is undoubtedly one of the most incredible and shocking comments to come out of the Malloy administration yet, the representative of the State Department of Education told the SDE working group, «best practice dictates that educators should never make consequential decisions based on a single test score.»

But its inflexible accountability provisions have become an obstacle to progress and have focused schools too much on a single test score.

Have data that proves over and over that kids previously labeled / tracked as slow or incapable do move ahead and become faster and more proficient given time but may have been placed in a track based on a single test or failure that determined a lifetime path.

It takes many different forms, from strict adherence to rank - ordered scores on a single test to multi-dimensional and holistic evaluations akin to those practiced by selective private colleges.

When access to rigorous programs is limited, or entry into them is handled simplistically (e.g., a child's score on a single test), plenty of kids who might benefit don't get drawn into the pipeline that leads to later success at the AP level and in schools like TJ — of which there aren't enough, either.

It's also important to note that a score on a single test is not synonymous with being ready to achieve at a given grade level — academically, socially or emotionally.

Protection Against High - Stakes Decisions Based on a Single Test A 50 - state survey shows that 11 states identify low - performing schools solely on the basis of test scores.

This detailed information about student academic growth should be used instead of AGT scores or any other measurements based on a single test, as teachers and administrators seek to use data to inform best practices that will improve student achievement;» [emphasis ours]

The only criterion is a student's score on a single test, The Specialized High - School Admissions Test (SHSAT).

While not required by the law, many school districts were reluctant to hinge the possibility of a third grader moving on to the fourth grade on his or her performance on a single test, especially considering that North Carolina just adopted more rigorous standards and more difficult assessments based on those standards — meaning that even more students are likely to fail End of Grade tests than in years past.

We teach for success throughout life rather than on a single test.

The Standards of the measurement profession and most professional education organizations state that making a decision based on a single test score is a misuse of standardized testing.

For many teachers, curriculum has become a prescribed set of academic standards, instructional pacing has become a race against a clock to cover the standards, and the sole goal of teaching has been reduced to raising student test scores on a single test, the value of which has scarcely been questioned in the public forum.