Sentences with phrase «on bubble tests»

For 21st century success, students will need skill sets far beyond those that are mandated in the densely packed standards — and that's evaluated on bubble tests.

Some 12,000 UFT members signed a «Recess from Tests» petition this fall, calling for a ban on bubble tests in those early grades.

Not exact matches

Instead of embracing realistic expectations and a time - tested approach, you may be tempted to react to predictions about bubbles ahead or another financial crisis on the horizon.

Its bubbling away on the stove now, been «taste testing» every few minutes!

Even now, in tests involving 97 volunteers, all consistently preferred the new sounds to ones produced based on spherical bubbles.

The project's co-spokesman, Paul Huffman of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says that trial runs on a test apparatus ran into problems when bubbles began to form on its electrodes.

So, think of the gas that comes back on the Breath Test is like looking for bubbles on the surface trying to see if someone's in the water.

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

But, it's an unfortunate comment on today's education debate that my quest to align public funding with effectiveness is seen as a call for more bubble tests.

He shows how tests «dumb down» the curriculum by channeling teachers» efforts and students» time into activities that mimic the tests (for example, filling in the bubbles on practice tests).

Most states, however, opted to test themselves on what could be bubbled in.

If you asked me how to make a Parachute Adams # 18 dry fly, I could describe all the steps and fill in the right bubbles on a test.

The risk in de-emphasizing growth is that it might push schools and teachers back to focusing on how many kids pass the tests, which incentivizes focusing on «bubble kids» at or near the passing line.

Lessons regularly wow the pupils and give them hands - on opportunities to test and explore their ideas and we have found that this enthusiasm for learning bubbles over into all subject areas.

With technological advances, gone are the days of poring over a three - inch thick manual and filling out Scantron bubbles on sample test sheet after sample test sheet.

Back in 2009, President Obama told an audience of business leaders that he wanted to see tests «that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem - solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.»

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

[We've written before about proficiency and the tendency, under high - stakes testing, for schools to focus resources on kids who are «on the bubble.»]

Up to now, much of teaching in California has been criticized as being grounded in the principal measure of success under No Child Left Behind — preparing students to fill in the correct bubbles on standardized tests.

While it is normal to become overwhelmed by the choices on these tests or to be confused by your options, there are several test - taking techniques that can help you find the answers, fill in the right bubbles and make the grade.

Finland's educational emphasis on critical thinking and creativity as opposed to bubbling in test score sheets is given as a reason for their competitiveness.

The tests, by SBAC and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will both be administered mostly on computers and will feature more open - ended questions than the traditional «fill in the bubble» exams to which students have grown accustomed.

And it is not acceptable that the major emphasis of educational reform is on bubbling in Scantron test booklets, the results of which will be used to rank and sort schools and teachers, so that those at the bottom can be fired or closed — not so that we will invest the resources needed actually to provide good education in these schools.

President Obama has now succumbed to the firestorm in opposition to standardized and «high stakes» testing that has swept the country over the past several years, even picking up on the talking points — «Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble».

We used results from an online practice test to identify «bubble kids» who were close to proficient on the state assessment, as well as specific standards to reinforce in our instruction.

«One - shot, year - end bubble tests administered on a single day, too often lead to a dummying down of curriculum,» Duncan said of the old state tests.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

But, then again, given their focus on test prep and how to fill in bubbles, it might not actually matter what language a student speaks.

Most efforts to lift struggling schools focus on students with the lowest scores on standardized tests, as well as students who are «on the bubble» — not college - bound students who presumably are meeting grade - level expectations.

The Toledo Technology Academy (TTA) is a four - year public high school that is considered one of the gems of the Toledo Public Schools system and a model for community - supported education based on teamwork and project - based learning rather than a school day crowded with «fill - in - the - bubble» test fixation.

Lessons regularly wow the pupils, giving them hands on opportunities to test and explore their ideas and we have found that this enthusiasm for learning bubbles over into all subject areas.

Instead of filling in bubbles for multiple choice questions, students take computer - adapted tests that ask different questions based on what they get right or wrong.

If you have been a teacher you understand that and that is why we do not like the idea of so much riding on a state - developed - fill - in - the - bubble test.

Based on what we see in films and television, it would seem that assessment in schools is restricted to a narrow range of tests: How often do we watch students in fictional classes being told they have a pop quiz tomorrow or see them practicing fill - in - the - bubble SAT questions?

The U.S. public views teachers as providers of content — facts and figures — to improve student achievement on multiple - choice bubble tests, while high - performing countries say teaching — like social work — is about relationships and call on teachers to collaborate with each other and their students to solve problems.

Some schools focus just on «bubble» students — those who are right on the verge of passing their standardized tests.

Apparently the belief in this school, and probably others, is that by humiliating these students, segregating them from their fellow classmates and preventing them from having popcorn and cotton candy will provide them with a powerful incentive to forgo their anxieties and be more attentive when it comes to filling in the bubbles on next year's CMT test.

Strap on your bubble - sheet «decoding» goggles, kids, we have a test to take!

One study found that teachers under high - stakes testing spent more time teaching «bubble kids» who were close to passing, at the expense of students elsewhere on the bell curve.

«The Sound of Bubbles Bursting: Student Gains on State Test Vanished into Thin Air,» New York Daily News, August 1, 2010.

When girls fill out the gender bubble on standardized assessments before a math or science test, they do demonstrably worse than when they fill out the bubble after taking the test.

MCAS's stated intention was to rethink how to measure and report on students» progress, yet MCAS relies on a high - stakes, fill - in - the - bubble test and discourages alternative assessments.

On the other hand, though, one wonders whether he'll leave a trail of teachers fired for their students» failed bubble tests in his embrace of the imperfect.

Three times a year, I spent the six weeks preceding our state accountability test pulling specific «bubble» kids from electives and tutoring them in areas that had proved problematic on prior tests.

When my high school students bubble in responses on their standardized tests, they often have to start by...

It's a common stereotype that boys make up the bulk of the «struggling» or reluctant readers, a belief that relies on compilations of different sources like book sales and «fill in the bubble» standardized test scores to produce «facts.»

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Castle of Illusion, obviously, isn't on the Mini, but many more testing platformers are, from the Mario games to Bubble Bobble and the genuinely fuck - this - thing - I - am - done - with - it frustrating original Castlevania (both dating from» 86).

It focused on laboratory tests in which coccolithophores were grown in water made more acidic by infusing it with bubbles of air with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide.

Methane bubbles and peat bog belches Swedish researchers have been in Lappland last month drilling holes in peat bogs and at higher points on what are called «peat plateaus» - up to 700 meters above sea level - to test the permafrost's temperature at various depths.