Improving teaching, Hardy told her staff again and again, would improve learning and
raise scores on standardized tests.
Not exact matches
For admission, they must
score at an 8th - grade level
on standardized reading and math
tests (the Richmond Tech PLC
raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.
This strategy should
raise their
standardized test scores, since researchers estimate that «85 percent of achievement
test scores are based
on the vocabulary of the standards.»
Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based
on assessment by principals depend
on the relative importance they place
on a teacher's ability to
raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectiveness.
The only way to save them is to expand charters, remove due process for teachers so they can be fired, and further
raise the stakes
on standardized test scores.
He was a co-author of a study that showed that teachers who helped students
raise standardized test scores had a lasting effect
on those students» future incomes, as well as other lifelong outcomes.
But in the past decade, more and more big - name Democrats have split with the unions to support charter schools, tenure reform and accountability measures that hold teachers responsible for
raising students»
scores on standardized tests.
The state Board of Education voted in favor of
raising the «cut
scores» or cut off
scores for what's considered «proficient»
on the state's
standardized MEAP
test.
In recent years, however, the federal law known as No Child Left Behind has put pressure
on schools to
raise scores on the
standardized reading and math
tests given to students starting around age 8.
Administrators quoted in the report explain that while Uncommon Schools have historically outperformed other schools that serve similar student populations, the implementation of the CCSS has
raised the bar and fewer Uncommon students are
scoring at proficient and advanced levels
on standardized tests.
In some of these programs like Relay, candidates are awarded degrees based
on their ability to
raise their students»
standardized test scores, which perpetuates the idea that
test scores are the most important measure of learning, and encourages a narrowing of the curriculum to focus
on tested content.
The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students
raise their
standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect
on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.
Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving a low - income urban minority community, launched a concerted and successful campaign to
raise its students» low math
scores on standardized tests.
I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus
on raising student
test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Upda
test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Up
scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes
Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of
Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High
Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Upda
Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Up
Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).