Sentences with phrase «on stakes attached»

Not exact matches

Though he varies the cross design based on available lumber, he has a few basic styles, including a flat cross that can be attached to walls or fences and another one that can be staked into the ground at rural sites.

Attach to a stake and use for promoting the Teal Pumpkin Project on your lawn!

ALBANY — Three powerful teachers» unions joined forces Friday to lobby for legislation that would create a moratorium on attaching «high stakes» to student scores on new state exams.

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two - year moratorium on attaching high - stakes consequences to the New York state tests for teachers and students.

To create this look you'll need three wreaths slightly ranging in diameter as well as a wooden stake on which to attach them.

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

The report in question, authored by Arizona State University researchers Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, purported to examine student - performance trends on national exams in states where legislators have attached «high stakes» to test scores.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

The evidence suggests that attaching stakes to tests can produce some unintended consequences, but there is reason to believe that it can also lead to gains on low - stakes exams.

As stakes become attached to school rankings based on growth measures, systems that disproportionately identify high - poverty schools as «losers» will make positions at these schools even less desirable to prospective educators.

When summary, or summative decisions are to be made as based on these data, regardless of whether low or high - stakes are attached to the decision, this is where things really go awry.

So while he testified on behalf of the state, he also testified he was not necessarily in favor of the consequences being attached to the state's teacher evaluation output, even if as currently being positioned by the defense as «low - stakes.»

Rather, it is states which have historically tested least and are less likely to attach high - stakes to their tests that generally score highest on NAEP [see Neill, Civil Rights], have lower dropout rates [Clark], and send more students on to college [see article on evaluation of state college systems, Education Week 1/6/00].

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

High stakes attached to them have led schools to not engage in more challenging and engaging curriculum but to limit school experiences to those that focus on test preparation.

The AFT has called for an end to the testing obsession and for a moratorium on the high - stakes consequences attached to the Common Core State Standards - aligned assessments until the more rigorous standards have been implemented properly.

The massive emphasis on new external, standardized exams, often with high stakes attached, has intensified the domination of summative tests over curriculum and instruction — even though the research examined by Black and William supports the conclusion that summative assessments tend to have a negative effect on student learning.

Even though NCLB mandated 17 federally required tests, the high stakes attached to them led states and districts to start administering multiple interim benchmark tests to see how well students would do on the federal tests.

Furthermore, attaching these stakes to test scores will result in further intensifying the focus on test preparation that is responsible for the narrowing of our curriculum.

Be prepared to keep him on leash at all times, or attached to a tie - out that is staked in the ground.

• Communicated with stake holders regarding project design, development and details • Obtained approvals and permits where applicable from relevant authorities to complete the project • Evaluated risk and reward tradeoffs regularly and issued reports on same • Translated project goals into chunks and attached time frame to same