Sentences with phrase «on a single test score»

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.»

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.