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The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is with House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and was passed out of the -LSB-...]

The firestorm over standardized testing in the K - 12 accountability system that has been building in Texas for over two years is coming to a major showdown, and the primary context of the debate is now House Bill 5, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 145 - 2 and, after several amendments, was passed by the Senate unanimously.

With the controversy over standardized testing in public schools still at a rolling boil, some national and state politicians are

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Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

The state Board of Regents announced that standardized English and math tests will be conducted over two days instead of three for students in grades three through eight beginning next spring.

The governor has also been in a feud with the teachers unions over new performance reviews and standardized testing related to the Common Core.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

The task force recommended a revamp of the common core system, more stakeholder input, a reduction in standardized testing, and increased local control over standards and curriculum.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Worry over and disapproval of the State Education Department's high - stakes standardized tests has been simmering in Kingston, with some parents

The Republicans are tapping into an anger among many parents in New York state over the botched rollout of a more rigorous curriculum that relies more on standardized tests, and is tied to teacher evaluations.

One of the measures the union is watching seemingly has paradigmatic implications in the debate over charter schools and standardized testing.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, said it's a turning point in what has become a battle between schools, teachers, parents and New York's elected leaders over standardized testing and its effects.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Researchers from the RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif. - based think tank, examined the standardized - test scores over five years for pupils in 2,892 schools across the state.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countrOver the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countrover the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

In a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noIn a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did not.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The cost of standardized tests, long assailed by testing critics as too high, has resurfaced in the debate over reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act currently underway in Congress.

Classroom instruction in these charters frequently appeared to honor the acquisition of basic, fundamental skills exactly the topics and items commonly found on standardized tests — over more cognitively engaging tasks such as arguing, defending, supporting, valuing, or evaluating.

A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial gains in basic - skills achievement over the past decade.

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.»

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Measuring student growth has been made somewhat easier by recent advances in the tracking of student performance on standardized tests over time.

The state department of education has audits under way to examine Chavez's finances and concerns over whether proper protocols were used in the administration of the state's standardized tests.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

Researchers Daniel M. Koretz and Mark Berends drew from two nationally representative surveys of students to see whether increases in mathematics grades between 1982 and 1992 bore any relationship to changes in standardized - test scores over the same period.

Standardized test scores and self - reports from teachers and students were collected over three years from a sample of 520 children in grades 3 - 5.

Republicans are hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year — one that could end up dramatically rolling back the federal role in education and trigger national blowouts over standardized tests and teacher training.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

With the extra support, she passed a mandatory standardized test and even raised her grade - point - average in her senior year to 3.49 on a 4.0 scale, lifting her four - year GPA over the 2.0 required to graduate.

With the winter holiday break over, many teachers are buckling down and getting ready to put learning into high gear in anticipation of standardized testing season, which will be upon us before we...

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

It's standardized testing season, which means silent hallways, desks arranged in rows, and for many kids, a lot of anxiety until it's over.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

A health expert writes that while there isn't likely to be peace in the education world over charter schools and standardized testing, on this everyone should agree: The need to focus attention on disparities among our youth in education and in health.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

Much like the debate over global warming, these non-believers refuse to validate an unassailable fact: standardized testing does have positive — and predictive — value in education and in life, just as the Earth is, indeed, getting warmer.

Culbertson is an urban elementary school with an enrollment of just over 600 students, almost all of whom meet state achievement expectations on the grades 3 - 5 standardized tests in reading, science, and mathematics.

The bottom line was that student performance on state standardized test in grades 3 - 8 went down over the five years.

Efforts to improve ways to assess teachers have been stalled in part over disagreement about using students» academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.

The teacher is still the best assessment tool because classroom assessments are formative (immediate) in nature, and over time they provide a cumulative, running record of achievement that is more reliable than any standardized test.

In a later conversation, Jeffries also said he supports standardized testing over «five million teachers doing their own thing,» which would seem to be at odds with his belief that schools need to celebrate and uphold marginalized students.

In the District, standardized test scores — which are highly correlated to Zip code and family income — did indeed dramatically rise over the past decade.

Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200 studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10 points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including violence, diminished.

As we saw over the last five months, here in Connecticut Governor Malloy and the «education reformers» are demanding the creation of even more standardized tests.

The specific focus on mathematics meant the work was relevant to all... This elementary school showed a substantially greater increase in standardized test scores than other district schools over the period of their school - wide lesson study in mathematics.