Sentences with phrase «on standardized test results»

The program, created by a 1990 Commission with substantial business community involvement, provides cash awards to teachers based on standardized test results.

They also raise important questions about the government's reliance on standardized test results as a guide for regulating the options available to families.

The framework bases between 25 and 40 percent of evaluations on standardized testing results.

Their schools had data walls and regularly scheduled data chats focused on standardized test results.

It had the lowest Academic Performance Index score, a rating based on standardized test results, in the district.

The root of the problem is the reliance on standardized test results.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests can not be considered a reliable measure of what students know.

Surely you are aware of the studies proving that rating teachers on standardized tests results in a 50 % misclassification rate.

Ivy League admission departments are not placing as much consideration on standardized test results and are relying more on the personal interview and creative endeavors of applicants.

Ensure that multiple measures are used to evaluate teachers and principals, and reduce the overreliance on standardized test results as part of these evaluations.

GreatSchools ™ rates schools based on standardized test results for each grade and student category.

Governor Malloy's «education reform initiative» requires local school district to base 22.5 percent of a teacher's evaluation on the standardized test results of their students.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

Under Malloy's policy, not only will the state rate schools and students based on standardized test results, but Connecticut's public school teachers will also be evaluated on how well their students do on these unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory tests.

Written by Carrie Wilson, Executive Director (more about Carrie) After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests can not be...

He wants teacher performance reviews to rely more on standardized test results, and he'd like 100 more charter schools in New York.

The announcement came in conjunction with the release of Michigan's school rankings, which are based on standardized test results, students» improvement over time and the gap between the best and worst pupils.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

I see it in their classroom performance and on their standardized test results.

I condemn in the strongest language possible reforms based on standardized test results and evaluations for teachers that include these results because they deny the creativity and humanity of both the child and the teacher.»

In the state, our school is ranked in the top 10 % of schools in similar socio - economic groups based on standardized test results.

It also appears to restrict research based on standardized test results.