Sentences with phrase «on educational assessment»

Therefore, our work on educational assessment systems ranges from helping schools and districts design and implement productive classroom formative and performance assessment systems to working with states and other partners on both technical and practical issues associated with large - scale assessments.

In this bi-weekly blog, I'll share my thoughts on educational assessment practices and stories from my work helping teachers across the country improve student achievement through learner - centric assessment practices.

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

Daniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

Koretz's research focuses on educational assessment and policy, particularly high - stakes testing and its effect on schools, as well as the validity of the score gains.

Koretz focuses his research primarily on educational assessment and testing, particularly when it is used as a tool of education policy.

The commission calls for states to create a permanent «council on educational assessments,» modeled on the Education Commission of the States and supported with a small tax on sales of tests.

Not exact matches

She also notes that while psychology is often seen as a form of treatment, it can also be used to empower clients — for example, she concentrates primarily on sports psychology and in educational assessments to help kids with anxiety and learning disabilities.

That's why the CFC's connection - based model is based on providing more comprehensive services for families, with independent professionals ranging from psychotherapy to parent education to neuropsychological assessments, from physical health and educational therapy to occupational therapy, and more.

Approval for contact hours through the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) is based on an assessment of the educational merit of this program and does not constitute endorsement of the use of any specific modality in the care of clients.

In most educational programs, traditional time - based assessments provide a single quantitative grade, more often than not on some kind of «pass - fail» scale.

We think that this represents gross neglect, and we compliment those states and policymakers who are trying to collect longitudinal data and base educational policy on a more careful assessment of the trajectories of children's intellectual progress over their school careers.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

Key Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their support.

Focusing on teaching innovatively to improve literacy skills across all subject areas, the Theatre will look at assessment changes across primary and secondary educational institutions.

Professor Dede's current research focuses on three areas: emerging technologies for learning and assessment, leadership in educational technology implementation, and effective policy for educational technology utilization.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

Most educational standard setting, performance assessment, and judgments about appropriate levels of achievement today are based on history and custom with a little bit of «professional dreaming.»

Popham argues that assessment in the United States has suffered from six crucial, recurring problems: too many curricular targets; the underutilization of classroom assessment; preoccupation with instructional process; the dearth of «affective» assessments, i.e., those focused on attitudes, interests, and values; instructionally insensitive accountability tests; and the reality that educators «know almost nothing about educational assessment.»

Simply hop on the Internet or head to your local library and hunt down an introductory book or two about educational assessment.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Everybody knows that the present educational system - all over the world - is mostly built on disciplinary teaching - learning basis: disciplinary curriculum and assessment, disciplinary specialization of the teachers, disciplinary diplomas etc..

Also in this issue: an analysis of open educational resources and what the federal role should be in facilitating their adoption; an assessment of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first few years in office in New York City; and an expert debate on the merits of two different approaches to designing state accountability systems.

The research involved surveying 1,100 school leaders, the results of which suggested that 82 per cent of mainstream schools in England do not have sufficient funding to adequately provide for pupils with SEND; 89 per cent of school leaders believe cuts to local authority services have had a detrimental impact on the support their school receives for pupils with SEND; three - quarters of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer than expected for assessment of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan; and 88 per cent of school leaders think initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with SEND.

This month, the focus for ACER Bookshops is on collecting and recommending key readings in educational assessment, one of ACER's key research and practice interests.

Perhaps the greatest contribution of MI theory, I would argue, has been its role over the past decade as a counterbalance to an educational climate increasingly focused on high - stakes testing, such as the IQ test, the SAT, and the various state assessments that have emerged from the No Child Left Behind Act.

Risk assessments play a key role in preparations designed to safeguard the health and safety of pupils on educational visits, writes the ATL.

ACER draws on its expertise as a leader in educational research, assessment, and data collection and analysis to provide professional learning for educators and system leaders, policy makers, psychologists and human resources professionals, and others to support improved learning.

Drawing on ACER's work at the forefront of international educational research and assessment, the Graduate Certificate of Education: Assessment of Student Learning gives you everything you need to excel in educational leadership.

Teachers or lecturers taking students on trips or visits have an obligation to take reasonable care of them — taking account of the students» ages, aptitudes, any special educational and / or medical needs, the risks associated with the activity and the environment concerned, which should be considered in the risk assessment (s).

(In this context, the authors hold out hope that assessment results based on Common Core standards will increase transparency of educational achievement across the country, a bet that looks less secure than it did a year ago.)

Providing a nonarbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible, given the extent to which OCR requires assessment of the «quality» of educational programs.

Governments have categorically refused to listen to the serious concerns of parents, educational professions and allied groups about the unsuitability and undue pressure which assessment is placing on our education system.

Washington's high - risk designation specified that the State must submit, by May 1, 2014, final guidelines for teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that meet the requirements of ESEA flexibility, including requiring local educational agencies (LEAs) to use student achievement on CCR State assessments to measure student learning growth in those systems for teachers of tested grades and subjects.

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

Steve is also the founder an educational technology startup and has spent the last several years working on a digital collaborative tool for authentic assessment.

The list of things that a new secondary teacher should know is vast - smatterings of adolescent development, pedagogy, content knowledge, college admission requirements, educational policy, assessment design, lesson planning, technology infrastructure, effective file naming conventions, study skills, cognitive science principles, cultural sensitivity, bureaucratic tendencies, statistical interpretation, and on and on and on.

The movement toward flexible time for assessment is obviously challenging, but these steps can make the shift more manageable — even in the face of immovable educational demands on our time.

Her study examines principals in diversifying suburban schools as well as their transformative leadership practices used to advocate the elimination of deficit thinking through the promotion of cultural competence and social justice so that all students have equitable educational opportunities in classrooms and on standardized assessments.

It includes topics on learning sciences theory, instructional methodologies and pedagogy, educational makerspace implementation, research practices, assessment of maker - based learning, curriculum - building, and digital fabrication tools.

The Policy - Level PLDs include policy claims, which describe the educational implications for students who attain a particular performance level on the PARCC assessments.

In particular, look out for policies on teaching the gifted and talented and those with special educational needs, discipline, teaching and learning, and assessment.

«The ELPA21 partnership will build on our extensive expertise and innovations in educational assessment, technology, and psychometrics.

The MIT study conducted a review of 100 + educational technology studies, and concluded that ASSISTments is one of the most promising programs in the US based on an outside evaluation that showed it double student's» yearly gains on a standardized mathematics assessment.

Charlie DePascale's work focuses on assessment literacy and the strengths and limitations of the use of assessment to support sound educational policy.

The Center is pleased to support an annual summer internship program advanced doctoral students in educational measurement and / or assessment / accountability policy who want the opportunity to work with the Center's professionals on projects with direct implications for state and national educational policy.

The authors draw on the latest research on assessment and education policy to provide a clear account of how the test works and to investigate PISA's influence on educational goals and practice in schools around the world.

Drawing on research and her own experiences as an educational consultant working on assessment issues, Brookhart describes what she thinks makes for powerful feedback — both in terms of how it's delivered and its underlying message.

The report discounts a significant body of peer - reviewed research that specifically shows positive effects of previous Michigan school finance reforms, including positive effects on state assessments and / educational attainment, concentrated on those students who attended, before those reforms, the lowest funded schools or lower performing schools.

From parsing this research and reflecting on my own experience as an educational consultant working with elementary and secondary teachers on assessment issues, particularly the difference between formative assessment and grading, I have identified what makes for powerful feedback — in terms of how teachers deliver it and the content it contains.