Sentences with phrase «quality educational assessment»

My team is looking to bring NFER's 70 year track record in high quality educational assessment, analysis, evaluation and reviews — and successful policy and practice influence — to bear in meeting global education opportunities and challenges.

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Designed to provide superior quality, rigorous assessment, and educational innovation, PCE programs uphold the University's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.

During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

A teacher who wants to learn more about the Common Core can watch a video featuring Professors Dan Koretz, Heather Hill, and Paul Reville that delves into the issue of assessments from the perspectives of an expert in educational measurement, an expert in teacher quality, and the former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, respectively.

According to two additional meta - analyses, high - quality assessment that is integrated into regular classroom practice can increase the rate of learning (Black & Wiliam, 1998) and is a highly cost - effective educational intervention (Yeh, 2007).

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.

We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have a longstanding interest in advancing quality school choices for kids who need them and a parallel interest in boosting educational achievement with the help of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems.

Dr Michael Timms directs the Division of Assessment and Psychometric Research at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), which develops high quality assessments and conducts cutting edge research in educational measurement.

Providing a nonarbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible, given the extent to which OCR requires assessment of the «quality» of educational programs.

MISSION:: The mission of the Test Development Section is to oversee the design, development, and implementation of a high - quality technically - sound student assessment system that assists stakeholders in making informed educational decisions.

We need to trust that teachers are the educators who best know our students and empower them to create school cultures, curriculum, instruction, and assessment that fully engage students in high quality, equitable, authentic, and relevant educational experiences.

What is important to highlight under this new model of educational assessment is that a school's overall quality will be determined as an aggregation of various criteria.

The Social Studies collaborative focuses on identifying, developing, and sharing high - quality educational resources that support student and professional learning through rigorous standards, engaging curriculum, balanced assessments, effective professional development and attention to equity.

Available evidence suggests not that technology creates educational improvement but rather that educational improvement comes about through coherent instruction and assessment that supports high - quality student learning.

STARS includes state government standards for local assessments, a means to evaluate them, and a structure for ensuring that educational quality rises.

The multilevel modelling of student achievement, both in terms of educational quality and equality, using data from large - scale international assessments best characterizes his current research emphasis and trajectory.

Accreditation is a process of assessment which ensures that an educational institution has met certain quality standards for education.

Finally, the paper outlines eight system - level characteristics of a high - quality CTE program, including: career - oriented educational systems; strong options for all students; rigorous academic curricula; rigorous technical skill development; employability skills; professional development for teaching staff and leaders; support services for students; and assessment / accountability.

However, by using the wrong assessment instruments to evaluate educational quality we may actually do more harm than good.

-- Each State plan shall demonstrate that the State educational agency, in consultation with local educational agencies, has implemented a set of high - quality statewide academic assessments that --(i) includes, at a minimum, academic statewide assessments in mathematics, reading or language arts, and science; and»

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

When using value added, allow educational leaders to make judgments in interpreting the value - added results in light of other available measures of teacher quality and the principals» own assessments.

This led each state to develop its own standards and assessment systems, which produced lots of variation in the quality and rigor of state educational systems across the country.

Focus areas of scholarship and research include: the use of digital tools for learning and assessment, fostering quality online learning experiences and relationships between students and instructors and educational transformation via policy and technology.

Susan Lyons works with state education leaders and other educational organizations to design and evaluate high quality assessment and accountability systems.

If you are managing aspects of compliance or a degree - seeking educational program, tracking who has completed segments of training, when, and how they scored on associated assessments can be just as important as the quality of training delivery.

High quality assessment is an educational necessity.

Included topics include: concepts of inclusive society, schools, classrooms and services; legal foundations for inclusion and government support for education; qualities of inclusive schools and classrooms; individualized educational programming, assessment and diagnosis of problem situations and prescriptive teaching.

The study concludes by outlining the things that still need to be done, such as, «the need for more compelling content for older children, the development of popular and effective educational apps... expanded efforts to reach parents with objective and reliable assessments of eth educational value of media, and continued production of high - quality educational television.»

• Arranged several training workshops for preschool teachers which engendered quality educational instructions to preschool students • Developed and implemented a teacher assessment program which screened preschool teachers every three months to determine needs for training • Trained 17 teachers and teachers» aides for working in a demanding preschool environment • Designed a particularly interesting and novel preschool program which is in sync with the international standards of interactive learning

Individual programs will maintain their own high quality standards for health, nutrition, safety, learning, assessment and development based on the type of educational philosophy they may be following.