Sentences with phrase «on narrow measures»

«The current educational accountability system has become overly focused on narrow measures of success and, in some cases, has discouraged schools from providing a rich curriculum for all students focused on 21st century skills they need to acquire.This particularly impacts under - resourced schools that disproportionally serve low - income and students of color.»

However, he said the Senate would work on a narrower measure ensuring that the lesser penalty applies when police order someone with a joint in his pocket to bring it out in the open.

Because they are based on a narrow measure — standardized test scores — and don't provide teachers with feedback on how to improve, they should be accompanied by other performance measures, the authors said.

Not exact matches

President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose a rule banning some devices, such as bump stocks, which he said can turn otherwise legal guns into machine guns.

We've been very focused on this narrow set of cognitive skills that get measured on standardized tests.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

It also includes a narrow gun safety measure and a compromise on a New York infrastructure project that had become a lightning - rod issue with the president.

Still, that's a narrow working majority of one seat, making it difficult for Democrats to pass some of the more controversial measures on their to - do list, such as strengthening abortion rights.

The NYCO measure was approved by voters statewide 53 - 47 percent — a vote that Protect the Adirondacks noted was the narrowest margin in a half - century on a question involving the forest preserve.

Students advocating a range of new gun control measures met with Republican leaders apparently set on a package of narrower measures; House Speaker Richard Corcoran said here that he saw AR - 15 rifles as legitimate hunting weapons.

Based on that suggestion, the ORNL team hypothesized that it should be possible to measure a nanomaterial's temperature using an electron microscope with an electron beam that is «monochromated» or filtered to select energies within a narrow range.

By measuring those waves using hundreds of seismic stations installed on the surface, near places such as Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone National Park, researchers can deduce whether there are narrow mantle plumes or whether volcanoes are simply created from magma that's absorbed in the sponge - like shallower mantle.

We measured water currents using a 153 - kHz narrow - band Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP; Teledyne - RDI) mounted on the ARSV LM Gould.

Although not all patients with narrow angles go on to develop angle - closure glaucoma, laser iridotomy is often performed as a preventive measure because of its relatively low risk compared to potential serious consequences of angle - closure glaucoma.

You'll want to improve your overall baseline fitness first, and then narrow in on the specific areas that will be measured during testing.

You should measure around your body at your narrowest point on waist.

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Assessment focuses on shifting from too narrow measurement of skills in the past to measuring what truly matters today.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

Using an eye tracker to measure the point of gaze — where students were looking as they read — Chen and others found that by narrowing the page with only a couple of words per line, they cut off the words on the left.

To ensure that we shape education for the future that we desire, some changes need to be made: to college entrance requirements that presently focus on efficient sorting; to assessments that measure the narrow traditional disciplinary goals of partially antiquated knowledge; to politics / policies that shrink away from controversy — we need courageous cathedral builders!

A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

Instead of encouraging innovation with the newly available tech tools, accountability systems based on narrow and dated measures tended to clamp down on new approaches.

The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose performance has the greatest impact on the headline accountability measures».

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

As soon as we attempt to measure the success and quality of a teacher or a learner through the narrow lens of some data on a page, we turn the profound humanity of a child into a narrow number on a table that is meaningless and misleading.

Critics, including many teachers unions and some policy experts, say the method is based on flawed tests that don't measure the more intangible benefits of good teaching and lead to a narrow curriculum.

And yet, measures of school quality — largely based on student standardized test scores — have long remained disappointingly narrow, unable to capture the full complexity of school quality.

As coverage targets narrow to focus on measures of income or other socioeconomic factors, the main coverage gaps are concentrated in Wards 7 and 8.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

Measuring student growth without relying solely on narrow standardized tests involves looking at multiple measures of student learning, such as essay exams, portfolios of students» work in various subjects, and group projects that require analysis, investigation, experimentation, cooperation, and written, oral, or graphic presentation of findings.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

Professor Helen Atkinson, chair of the RAE's education and skills committee, said: «Accountability measures have created perverse incentives, encouraging some schools to focus pupils on a narrow set of subjects rather than a broad and balanced offer.

He said the way schools are measured at the moment is «too narrow» with too much emphasis on the «narrow achievements» of individual schools.

Thus, rating teachers by this single, narrow, flawed measure is not only unfair, but provides a disincentive for teachers to take on tough assignments.

Under NCLB - era accountability, too much focus was placed on a single measure (student assessment), casting a spotlight on too narrow a band of students (low - performing students near proficiency) rather than sparking higher performance by all students.

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

MPs on the parliamentary education committee have heard evidence from headteachers and local authority officers, who warned that vulnerable pupils are being forced out of mainstream schools due to «cliff - edge» accountability measures and a narrowing of the school curriculum.

On the other hand, the pendulum in the charter space swung from quantity to quality, and restrictive authorizing and accountability based on narrow historic measures (and proficiency over growth) lead to more closures, fewer new schools and less innovative modelOn the other hand, the pendulum in the charter space swung from quantity to quality, and restrictive authorizing and accountability based on narrow historic measures (and proficiency over growth) lead to more closures, fewer new schools and less innovative modelon narrow historic measures (and proficiency over growth) lead to more closures, fewer new schools and less innovative models.

In developing their accountability systems, these districts often attempt to compensate for deficits in state accountability systems (e.g., insufficient data on student progress from year to year, narrow measures of school performance).

Alongside teachers, I am curious how continuing annual testing in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school reduces «the burden of testing on students and teachers, making sure that tests don't crowd out teaching and learning» and how the continued significance of student test scores (despite the law's important shift to include multiple measures of success for students) will alter a test - prep culture that narrows the curriculum.

The act's emphasis on test scores as the primary measure of school performance has narrowed the curriculum, and the one - size - fits - all accountability system has mislabeled schools as failures even if their students are demonstrating real academic growth.

In some of these programs like Relay, candidates are awarded degrees based on their ability to raise their students» standardized test scores, which perpetuates the idea that test scores are the most important measure of learning, and encourages a narrowing of the curriculum to focus on tested content.

The B9's drag coefficient value of 0.23 is class leading, and is derived from a range of subtle measures, including the outer lines of the air inlets that integrate additional openings (they guide some of the airstream over the wheel well), wing mirrors positioned on the door sills (narrow stripes enhance aeroacoustics, amber light below it is a unique blind spot assist method), narrow trim on the rear windows and a largely smooth underbody.

Granted, it's not perfect; the touch pad is a little on the narrow side, measured front to back, though that's to be expected on a deck this size.

This is especially important in the context of evaluating more comprehensive tax reform proposals that contemplate taxing income sources that are not included in narrower measures (e.g., proposals to tax some or all employer contributions to health insurance or to reduce the amount of tax - free income earned within qualified retirement plans by placing tighter limits on contributions).

3) A little piece of a pie: Measuring just 55 - inches across its narrowest point, this pie - shaped Seattle, WA, house was reputedly built to cut off access to a larger home on the street.

His foundation has a single, narrow focus and is committed to methodically measuring social return on investment — easy enough, the end game being how many kids get into IIT.