Sentences with phrase «prepping students for standardized tests»

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In fact, we may have made recess so safe, perhaps dull even, that few complained when many schools cut it back in order to spend more time prepping students for standardized tests.

Magee says teachers will be working in the next two years to make sure adopting the Common Core becomes more than just prepping students for standardized tests.

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Andrew Miller looks at prep for standardized testing as an opportunity to encourage higher order thinking, embed test prep practices, and make informed decisions about engaging the class and reaching individual students.

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The pendulum is ready to swing from overreliance on rote learning and prepping for standardized tests to preparing students to be 21st century thinkers.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

Varsity Tutors provides intensive 4 and 6 week test prep programs for Texas students, helping them achieve new levels of achievement on the state standardized exams.

And educators, seeking to prepare students for a successful future in which computer and typing skills have usurped penmanship, are finding cursive's relevance waning, especially with leaner school budgets and curricula packed with standardized testing prep.

As Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests increTests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests incretests increased.

And the correlations in the Gates report between test student reports of test prep and value - added on standardized tests were all positive: «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test.»

Students may spend 20 to 25 hours actually taking the math and ELA tests but a study, «TIME ON TEST: The Fixed Costs of 3 - 8 Standardized Testing in New York State», found that students had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be coStudents may spend 20 to 25 hours actually taking the math and ELA tests but a study, «TIME ON TEST: The Fixed Costs of 3 - 8 Standardized Testing in New York State», found that students had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be comTesting in New York State», found that students had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be costudents had to wait over an hour each day for «testing related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be comtesting related activities» — 20 minutes to prep room, 14 minutes to change locations for some students, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be costudents, 12 minutes to count and distribute the tests, ad naseum — to be completed.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.