Sentences with phrase «on standardized test scores»

We should not evaluate our educational success based on standardized test scores in a few subject areas.

Further, it's a teacher evaluation system that relies on standardized test scores as a key measurement of whether a teacher should be allowed to keep teaching or whether they should be fired.

As school systems add more and more curricula for teachers to cover — and put more and more emphasis on standardized test scores — many teacher say they have less time to be creative.

In this view, we can measure important results of education exactly — and thus our reliance on standardized test scores as a primary measure in holding schools and teachers accountable.

It doesn't assess teachers on the standardized test scores of students they haven't even taught.

According to the terms of the state deal, 40 percent of a teacher's annual review will be based on student performance on standardized test scores.

The following chart (some of which I've published before) indicates that schools cream off a select group of students — students who end up doing statistically better on standardized test scores.

It also evaluates the training programs on how well the teachers they produce scored on the city's new evaluation system, which is based partly on standardized test scores.

The only way to save them is to expand charters, remove due process for teachers so they can be fired, and further raise the stakes on standardized test scores.

Does saying yes mean, as some opponents of such a policy argue, that teacher evaluations should be based simply on standardized test scores?

Most of the reforms these days are focused on standardized test scores.

They must meet academic benchmarks, largely based on standardized test scores, in order to stay open.

One of the worst arguments is that by placing so much emphasis on standardized test scores, children may never grow up to question their standardized credit score as a measure of their worth.

I would just add that when you talk about not relying on standardized test scores, you're on very solid ground.

We identify the impact of gifted and talented services on student outcomes by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility requirements and find no impact on standardized test scores of marginal

CEA Executive Director Mary Loftus Levine, parents, and teachers told members of the State Board of Education today that they are concerned about the potential overreliance on standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.

The most controversial aspect of L.A. Unified's plan is its decision to include student progress on standardized test scores as one measure of a teacher's effectiveness.

As the Malloy administration has been warned repeatedly, the reliance on standardized test scores for 22.5 percent of a teacher's evaluation renders the entire system unreliable.

That means grading schools and students and teachers on standardized test scores.

They could have been coerced into teacher evaluations based in part on standardized test scores.

Unfortunately, many states are using that federal guidance as rationale for an overreliance on standardized test scores in principal evaluations and are ignoring the complex and various responsibilities that principals carry out to foster high - quality instruction and learning.

California's Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth - grade mathematics and triple students» math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years.

Among the highlights of the potential changes: allowing schools to seek one - year «hardship» delay in adopting the plans until September 2016; and less emphasis on standardized test scores when it comes to evaluating teachers.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

They do not want teachers to be rated on their standardized test scores, or replaced by untrained recent college graduates, a la Teach for America.

And Rand Corp. researcher Laura Hamilton warned against relying on standardized test scores for 4 - year - olds.

Currently, Mayor Bill de Blasio and NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo are divided on the issue of basing a teacher's evaluation on standardized testing scores.

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

In 1995, according to Dayton Public School Superintendent, James Williams, Allen Elementary ranked first in the district on standardized test scores; student absenteeism was the lowest in the district; 87 percent of the students regularly submitted homework; and only 8 students were suspended for bad behavior.

However, NAESP can not support the department's recommendation to judge principal effectiveness «in significant measure» on student achievement data that relies primarily on standardized test scores.

Education reformers say it means that a significant majority of a school's accountability rating should hinge on standardized test scores — at least 70 percent.

Although not every homeschool case is the same, just as not every student is the same, homeschoolers at large continue to outperform on standardized test scores and continue to be sought out by colleges and universities.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

Averaging across 16 U.S. - based programs, Patrick Wolf and colleagues find that these small - scale voucher programs have statistically insignificant effects on standardized test scores across academic subjects.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

Here's a discussion about education evaluation systems that don't obsess on standardized test scores.

When asked to assess the success of the interventions, Galvez cited district reports on standardized test scores as evidence of improvement, although he acknowledged that district data shows test scores had been climbing before LAUSD beefed up the intervention program.

«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

I find it ironic that Sidwell Friends and other high end private schools aren't even close to basing everything on Standardized Test Scores.