Sentences with phrase «part on student test scores for»

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The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

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In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to come up with ways to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

For a brief period, states were required to rank their teacher education programs based in part on how much their graduates were boosting student test scores.

For a brief period, states were required to rank their teacher prep programs based in part on how much their graduates were boosting student test scores.

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

Faced with pushback from both major teachers unions, the Gates Foundation and several states, the U.S. Department of Education has loosened its timetable for states to evaluate teachers based in part on student scores on the new Common Core tests.

I beg all real educators not to be a part of the testing charade by celebrating better test scores — if you do — you are actually buying into this sorry state of affairs --- and what happens when they go down again — which they will — do you make excuses or feel bad or ashamed --(testing needs to be used for what it was intended for)-- lets NEVER forget that — sing praises to your students real accomplishments on a daily basis — and stay true to your calling and to your heart ---- The tide will turn if you do so — and our students will benefit when that time comes again ----- Tom

In most cases, new teacher evaluations will consist of two parts: observations of classrooms, which look at how teachers teach; and outcomes on tests, including scores for students and value - added data, which measure how students progress.

According to the Press, Inzelbuch said that «a lack of discussion did not mean apathy on the part of the board» and cited «low student test scores and a budget deficit as cause for the failing scores on the QSAC review.»

In addition to unleashing «great innovation and creativity» on the part of the participating states, the waivers have pulled in «hundreds of thousands» of students whose standardized test scores hadn't been counted toward accountability plans for schools, Duncan said.

This was set to be the first year ever that city teachers would be judged, in part, by how well their students performed on state tests, but now, if a teacher's rating is bad, the state test scores won't count, at least for the next two years.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

REVIEWS «When the Obama Administration decided to spend the billions it got for schools as part of the stimulus package to launch the Race to the Top program and the NCLB waivers, forcing many states to adopt teacher evaluation based on changes in student test scores, leading experts warned that this «value added» system did not have a reliable scientific basis and would often lead to false conclusions.

Even the AFT and CEA have admitted that Governor Malloy's 2012 Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiative sought to eliminate tenure for all public school teachers in Connecticut and replace it with a system of short - term contracts in which continued employment as a teacher would depend, in part, on the test scores teachers» students got on the unfair and inappropriate Common Core Standardized Tests.

The federal lawsuit, which is also backed by the National Education Association and the Florida Education Association, says that some teachers» rights are being violated because they are being assessed based on students that sometimes aren't even in their classroom — a byproduct, critics say, of the law's requirement that test scores account for a part of educators» pay even if there are no state exams in that grade or subject area.

The decision is particularly painful for Kingsport because for the first time in three years students there were going to be taking tests directly aligned to what and how they've been learning — a monumental moment for teachers whose evaluations and compensation are based in part on students» test scores.

For her part, Laughner has no problem being judged based on her students» test scores and says she doesn't want to be «lumped in» with less effective teachers.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&raqFor example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&raqfor Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&raqfor state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

In 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scores.

The «merit» score for classroom teachers with tested students should be based, in part, on schoolwide student achievement growth.

In the case of evaluations, the union affirmed that for the first time it would support calculating students» test scores on standardized tests as part of teacher reviews — but not with any tests currently in existence.

In other words, if the scores show that students are doing poorly on one part of the test, for example, the teacher should show that he or she is spending more time on that topic or teaching it differently.

I feel it is unfair for the education department to pass down direction for teacher / principal evaluation that is based, solely or in part, on student test score performance.

As for making student test scores a big part of that process, he says «it's a tough situation because performance on a standardized test can really just reflect that year's mix of kids, or the luck of the draw.

Most states have systems that assign a fixed value to each part of the evaluation.1 For example, 50 percent might be based on principal observations, 35 percent on student test scores and 15 percent on student surveys.