Sentences with phrase «on standardized test prep»

«I have to focus on standardized test prep and don't have time for PBL.»

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My own children have been subjected to relentless test prep, bribery, teacher - induced guilt trips and even overt falsehoods designed to boost their performance on the standardized test that's linked to school rating / teacher performance.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

There is broad agreement that states» current accountability systems are overly dependent on standardized tests that do not (and can not) capture all the skills that students need to acquire, and that have sometimes encouraged teachers to engage in harmful curriculum narrowing and «test prep.»

In fact, on page 24, the report clearly says that the relationship between test prep and value - added on standardized tests is weaker than other observed practices, but does not claim that the relationship is negative:

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And the impact of their massive standardized testing scheme is equally clear; cut back on instructional time, reduce «specials» like art, music, physical education and devote more time to test prep and standardized testing.

As the Obama administration calls on schools to stop obsessing over standardized tests, Brooklyn Ascend High is rolling out a liberal arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking over exam prep.

If we are not satisfied with the overemphasis on «college and career readiness» for FIRST GRADERS, or the fact that «tests» are given in multiple choice, standardized - test - prep form to FIRST GRADERS, where would we register that opinion?

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

The pendulum is ready to swing from overreliance on rote learning and prepping for standardized tests to preparing students to be 21st century thinkers.

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.

I doubt they spend much time on test prep and standardized testing, if at all.

Varsity Tutors provides intensive 4 and 6 week test prep programs for Texas students, helping them achieve new levels of achievement on the state standardized exams.

But that minor point aside, according to the state of Connecticut's annual, multi-million dollar investment in standardized testing and the hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on test prep, I can now say with great pride that my child appears not to be an idiot.

Guessing a vocab word on a standardized test will almost always garner an incorrect answer because test prep writers use vocabulary words in different ways according to the context.

As Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests increTests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests incretests increased.

And the correlations in the Gates report between test student reports of test prep and value - added on standardized tests were all positive: «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test.»

Students may spend 20 to 25 hours actually taking the math and ELA tests but a study, «TIME ON TEST: The Fixed Costs of 3 - 8 Standardized Testing in New York State», found that students had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be comTesting in New York State», found that students had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be comtesting related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be completed.

Under Race to the Top and Common Core students, teachers, schools, districts, and states are evaluated based on the high - stakes standardized tests, transforming schools from places where students like Oprah learn to love learning and Senator Murkowski learned to question into test prep academies.

Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious test prep, and time diverted from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented from getting the test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably - standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.

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