Sentences with phrase «quality assessments encourage»

High - quality assessments encourage further learning; low - quality assessments hinder learning.

And this is the ultimate goal, of course — that high - quality assessments encourage better teaching and better learning that students can apply to their lives.

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Simek, who formerly served on the city's board of assessment review, said he wanted to use his real estate experience to help redevelop vacant lots in the ward by identifying high - quality builders and encouraging them to invest in the city.

The specific way (s) they plan to address the identified shortcoming (s), such as through training, outcomes assessment, quality checks, or reinforcements that encourage responsible behavior.

Eighty - eight percent of respondents questioned the accuracy of current tools for risk adjustment; 85 percent did not think that socioeconomic status was adequately considered, and 82 percent worried that flawed quality assessments would encourage physicians to avoid high - risk patients.

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind - numbing drill - and - kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

«A critical concept of the new mathematics curriculum is that it encourages the learning of fewer things in greater depth and, inevitably, this is serving to catalyst conversation within the profession as to how to ensure that the right balance between quality and quantity is being struck whilst also ensuring that any methods adopted will stand the scrutiny of assessment.»

Together, they implement provisions of Title I of ESSA that seek to ensure states administer high - quality assessments that are worth taking and provide meaningful data about student success and equity, while also encouraging states and districts to continue to push the field of assessment forward through innovation.

Coupled with the self - assessment, BLOCS encourages programs to use a number of tools for determining their program quality.

In California, there is general consensus that the performance assessment, which encourages students to focus on how they would teach a variety of students, has at least created more thoughtful teachers, even if the research isn't clear that the tests are improving the quality of the teaching force.

The federal government must encourage assessment quality in several areas, including giving the consortia the freedom to measure proficiency outside of grade level and refining the peer - review guidance used to evaluate assessments.

Achieve encourages states to work towards a high quality assessment system that is aligned, coherent, and streamlined.

High - quality assessments generate rich data and can provide valuable information about student progress to teachers and parents, support accountability, promote high expectations, and encourage equity for students of color and low - income students.

One emerging strategy is the inclusion of a family and community knowledge domain in child development assessments and quality ratings of early childhood programs encouraging improvement to programs, policies and practices.