Sentences with phrase «rather than standardized test»

Some teachers, for example, might prefer using a portfolio of student work to demonstrate academic progress rather than a standardized test score.

The Baltimore school board voted this week to revamp the district's funding formula, choosing to provide extra dollars to schools on the basis of student poverty rather than standardized test scores.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

Overall, however, companies such as Google are looking more to experience and personality rather than standardized testing to choose their future employees.

Not exact matches

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

If California wants to simply identify underperforming schools on the state's dashboard, as its accountability plan suggests, or if Arizona wants to allow schools to use any standardized test that fits their needs rather than a statewide test, as ESSA's pilot option also allows, DOE should move out of the way of these state laboratories.

Needless to say, they include a vastly more rigorous curriculum, higher expectations for all students, a knowledge - based rather than a methods - based emphasis in teacher education, and a more thoughtful system of assessment rather than the relatively mindless fill - in - the - blank approach of so many conventional standardized tests.

Todd Finley (@finleyt) believes «high - stakes standardized tests (HSSTs) undermine effective practice, especially when we treat testing as content rather than just one of many ways of understanding what learners need.»

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

Report cards would rate programs by their outcomes, such as graduates» impacts on student performance on standardized tests, rather than program characteristics like curriculum and faculty credentials.

It encourages colleges to revise their applications to ask students about two or three extracurricular activities, rather to encourage them to submit long lists of sports and clubs they participate in and to consider make standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice.

When deciding whether to admit a student, colleges more heavily weigh grades over standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, because they show a student's performance over a period of time rather than on a particular day.

The idea of authentic assessment — evaluating children based on an in - depth examination of their work rather than their scores on standardized tests — goes back a century, to the beginnings of the progressive education movement.

With the changing climate of education, one that is beginning to question the relevance of standardized testing, Naiku is a refreshing tool that emphasizes the importance of how we learn, rather than the test results.

Rather than simply add more and different assessments to what we already have, the time expended on state mandated standardized tests should be reduced and we should move to a broader array of performance assessments that are part of the curriculum.

Incidents of tampering with a set of standardized tests were probably the result of intra-office quarrels rather than an attempt to get away with inflating scores, according to an independent investigation into the suspicious test results at Beacon Hill International School in Seattle.

Rather than leaning on standardized tests plus a handful of other measures, we included 34 unique measures — a combination of performance assessments, administrative data, and student and teacher surveys.

Second, most standardized tests in use today measure only a narrow band of low - level skills, such as recalling or restating facts, rather than such high - level skills as the ability to analyze information.

Some teachers expressed misgivings about the use of raw standardized test scores rather than value - added ratings.

No country in the world conducts more standardized testing of its students and rather than cut back, the corporate education reform industry is dramatically increasing the amount standardized testing that is forced upon students in the United States.

«We know the best way to assess students is to review their ongoing work rather than focus on a limited snapshot from a high - stakes, standardized test,» Ferreira said.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

· Productive use of performance assessments, like proper use of standardized tests, should be aimed at revealing areas needing improvement and should lead to curriculum and professional learning supports rather than punishments.

«We should be looking at the model of Finland's schools, a system based on cooperation rather than competition, trusting and respecting teachers rather than scapegoating them, de-emphasizing standardized testing and providing small classes,» Haimson said.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

Standardized tests like the Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) are ill equipped to measure students» knowledge, talent, and skills and often take a «snapshot» of students rather than measure learning over time.

Perhaps most important, states now have the opportunity to use a framework of indicators for school success that is far better aligned with the skills and knowledge students need to be successful in college, career, citizenship and life, rather than default to standardized test scores.

The eagerly engaged voices assembled here present an action plan to combat the increase in high - stakes standardized testing currently plaguing K — 12 education... the focus is on doing rather than shouting, and each essay in this anthology is a blueprint for civic action....

This usually means the use of one of the currently normed and standardized intelligence tests (WISC - III or SB: IV), rather than the sole use of the older SB: LM.

You wrote, «We're concerned that Pearson is using gag orders to cover up — rather than address — problems with its standardized tests.»

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.

Rather than using only standardized test scores to calculate a school's letter grade, the new letter grade ratings will also consider how scores for subgroups of students scores change over time, as well as graduation rates and Advanced Placement test scores.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

Additionally, a growing number of states are opting to cover the cost of college - prep entrance exams rather than issue standardized tests to assess high school juniors» academic progress to meet federal accountability requirements, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Delaware, Maine Illinois, Connecticut and Kentucky.

It depends on the state, but the procedures for standardized tests could possibly become less strict, which will allow schools and teachers to focus more on other subjects and creative activities rather than teaching to the test.

Rather than use that vehicle to speak out about the misuse of standardized testing, CABE and CAPPS signed onto a political agenda that failed to even mention the word testing let alone articulate a position about why the overuse of standardized testing is unfair, discriminatory and is damaging our children and our system of public education.

These models, which consider student growth on standardized tests, fall roughly into four categories: «value - added models» that do not control for student background; models that do control for student background; models that compare teachers within rather than across schools; and student growth percentile (SGP) models, which measure the achievement of individual students compared to other students with similar test score histories.

Issue # 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

Rather than use the event to congratulate each other on the destruction of our public schools, Connecticut's elected officials should be explaining to Duncan that the Common Core and Common Core Testing scheme is a fiasco that needs to be repealed and that Connecticut must be allowed to develop its own effective teacher evaluation system that doesn't rely on the use of unfair, inappropriate and faulty standardized test scores.

«Multimetric accountability systems should use formative assessments, evidence of student learning, and progress toward personal growth objectives to measure student and teacher success rather than rely on standardized test scores as the primary reference point.»

* over-emphasizing standardized testing, narrowing curriculum and instruction to focus on test preparation rather than richer academic learning;

And finally, there's New Hampshire, which has aggressively pursued a statewide assessment model that put teachers in the position of creating tasks where students apply their learning in real world situations, rather than flawed standardized tests.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

-- One more thought on ESSA: The law will allow seven states to participate in a new pilot program where they can experiment with more innovative ways of testing and performance - based systems rather than run - of - the - mill state standardized tests for accountability purposes.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.