Sentences with phrase «reading assessment efforts»
It also includes 15 reproducible forms and checklists that teachers and administrators can use to optimize their reading assessment efforts.
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What I liked about Dana was her frank assessment of some recent efforts to draw attention to and improve... [Continue reading]
City of Plattsburgh Mayor Colin Read recently floated the idea of consolidating the city's tax assessment, human resource and IT departments with the county in an effort to save money.
The benchmark assessments monitored the progress of children in grades 3 - 8 (3 - 11 in Pennsylvania) in mathematics and reading and guided data - driven reform efforts.
In an effort to boost test scores, the district mandated the use of Open Court Reading, a scripted language arts program, and an accompanying assessment system.
One of the few studies of on - demand assessment to report specifically by subject area is based on data from the New Standards Project, a multistate effort designed to involve educators in the creation of state and district performance - based assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics (Resnick, Resnick, & DeStefano, 1993).
Central administrators made no effort to revise district policy on student assessment despite significant revisions of the state's reading test.
Although direct writing assessment is still a mainstay of many assessment programs, more recent efforts at performance assessment in reading and writing go further, including longer and more complex reading selections from a variety of genres, higher level comprehension questions, extended written responses, and cross-text analyses.
In a series of studies, literacy researchers at the National Reading Research Center (NRRC)(Afflerbach, Almasi, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1996; Almasi, Afflerbach, Guthrie, & Schafer, 1995; Guthrie, Schafer, Afflerbach, & Almasi, 1994) investigated the effects of the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), a multipronged reform effort that includes learning outcomes, a performance assessment, guidelines for school decision - making, and suggestions for staff development.
State officials» efforts to improve students» reading and language arts achievement with their newly designed end - of - grade assessments.
Members of the State Board of Education approved today multiple alternative assessment methods for determining third grade reading proficiency, which were put forth by local school districts in an effort to reduce the burdensome testing methods that have...
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But typically those efforts are limited to grades three through eight, when state assessments in reading and math are conducted for federal accountability purposes.
Curriculum has long been a third rail in U.S. education policy, dismissed by policymakers despite related, highly visible efforts to develop college - and career - ready standards, aligned assessments, Read more about Hiding in Plain Sight: Leveraging Curriculum to Improve Student Learning -LSB-...]
Most people are familiar with the «opt - out» effort, a group that encourages parents to withdraw their children from annual state assessments in Math... Continue reading Low - Income Communities Say Yes to the Test Because Knowledge is Power!
This information was compiled in an effort to keep states and policy makers up to date on the current assessments being given and Read more about State Summative Assessments Report for 2015 - 2016 School Yeaassessments being given and Read more about State Summative Assessments Report for 2015 - 2016 School YeaAssessments Report for 2015 - 2016 School Year -LSB-...]