Sentences with phrase «promotion stakes for»

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«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

Last week, Gates Foundation education chief Vicki Phillips wrote a «letter to our partners» urging that states give students and teachers time to adjust to the new Common Core standards before using those standards as factors «in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition.»

Instead, Orfield states that The Civil Rights Project strongly supports the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences» report entitled High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (1999) that single tests never be used as the sole determiner of graduation or grade promotion.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

Also, the state's social promotion policy raises the stakes for students in grades 4 and 8.

High - stakes testing refers to the use of assessment data to make decisions about enrollment, retention, promotion, incentives for children or teachers, or other tangible rewards or punishments (Madaus, 1988; Meisels, 1989).

A rethinking of promotion and enrollment policies so that high - stakes decisions for students are made using multiple measures and not a single test score.

As you noted, high stakes testing — using tests for student promotion, teacher evolution, and even school closure — has certainly increased the controversy surrounding the Common Core.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.

High - stakes tests are used to make important decisions such as student promotion or graduation, granting teacher tenure, or sanctioning schools for poor performance.

So we join the Gates Foundation in calling on state policymakers to consider that assessment results should not be taken into account in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition here in Tennessee.

One of the first waves of changes, high - stakes tests for fourth - and eighth - graders aimed at ending decades of social promotions, sparked years of controversy.

«Pearson's promotion of high - stakes tests is undermining the ability of schools to provide a well - balanced and broad curriculum, while its involvement with low - cost private schools in the Global South is jeopardizing access to education for many children,» Blower said.

The resolution highlights the damaging effects on public education of the high - stakes standardized tests that Pearson sells to school districts and its promotion of private and costly schools, rather than public schooling, for families in the developing world.

Often these tests are referred to as «high stakes,» although some states have a mechanism for graduation or promotion that avoids retention consequences when the student has otherwise earned graduation or promotion.

Standardized testing has come under increasing scrutiny across the nation, particularly in its use for high - stakes decisions such as student promotion, in teacher evaluations, and for other school personnel decisions.