Sentences with phrase «other standardized test data»

Although the Gates Foundation money is a tiny portion of the Hartford School System's total budget, by accepting the grant, the Hartford Board is committed to instituting more standardized testing (the NWEA MAP test), supporting the expansion of more charter slots (a gift for Jumoke and Achievement First) and attaching teacher evaluation results (From the Danielson / Teachscape programs) to the NWEA MAP and other standardized test data.

Not exact matches

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

---- Concurrent - Related Evidence of Validity: Concurrent - related evidence of validity is observed when, in this case, large - scale standardized test and other criterion data are collected at the same time.

Rather than leaning on standardized tests plus a handful of other measures, we included 34 unique measures — a combination of performance assessments, administrative data, and student and teacher surveys.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

For years, districts nationwide have monitored standardized test data and other measures, reporting it to the state and watching trends across schools.

The thought of working with standardized test and other sorts of assessment data is oftentimes overwhelming to many educators.

The research suggests another way that we can and should enrich data on effective teaching: examining the value that teachers add to outcomes other than standardized test scores.

(15) If standardized test scores form a substantial part of a school or a teacher's evaluation, there is likely to be considerable pressure to align other measures with the test score data.

School counselors may also use other resources, including standardized test results and other student data to accurately plan, monitor, and manage a student's development.

The data collected on the WKCE standardized tests, required as part of the No Child Left Behind legislation, revealed that Madison's white students outperform their peers nationally as well as compared to other white students across the Badger State.