Sentences with phrase «real stakes for the students»

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For example, the evidence is clear that high - stakes testing can produce severely inflated scores, meaning increases in scores far larger than real improvements in student learning.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

Turning around high schools — where the stakes are arguably highest as students prepare to head out into the real world — has proven to be particularly frustrating for reformers.

It is every bit as real for the student body as they navigate the tumultuous seas of rigorous courses, high stakes testing and extracurricular competition.

Without establishing collective stakes in the efforts — and rewards — of data - driven decision - making, educators will struggle to affect the kind of real, comprehensive institutional changes that establish the conditions of possibility for student improvement.

Can we find better solutions to address two priorities that stand in tension, first, the need for highly precise and reliable data for high - stakes decisions; and second, the need for assessments that require students to apply knowledge and skills to solve complex, real world problems?