Sentences with phrase «reliance on student test scores»

She recently testified on her and other teachers» behalves about these rankings, their (over) reliance on student test scores to define «effectiveness,» and the Common Core to a Senate Education Committee.

Assemblywoman Pat Fahy, a Democrat from Albany, said she wasn't convinced, either, that the new model addressed her conference's concerns about the reliance on student test scores to rate teachers.

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Others, however, question whether a greater reliance on video games is in students» best interests, indicating there is little proof that skillful game play translates into better test scores or broader cognitive development.

Senate Bill 1458, which will shift California's chief measure of a high school's performance, from a near exclusive reliance on state test scores to a broader gauge of student accomplishment and preparation for college and the world of work, is now law.

This reliance on decades - old reporting conventions has in some ways been exacerbated by new technologies because a percentage or diagnostic score can be even more quickly calculated using digitized multiple - choice items that, though they may be «technologically enhanced,» still remain rooted in designs for a summative test rather than being designed formatively for students as thinkers.

She is especially critical of the reliance on student performance measures like test scores, the prime complaint of the NJEA.

In a departure from the past decade's heavy reliance on test scores to determine which students advance to the next grade, the New York City Department of Education said Wednesday that schools will use a basket of measures instead.

Today's enthusiastic embrace of data has waltzed us directly from a petulant resistance to performance measures to a reflexive and unsophisticated reliance on a few simple metrics — namely graduation rates, expenditures, and the reading and math test scores of students in grades 3 through 8.

One of the biggest shifts in D.C. was the decision this year to reduce the reliance on test scores in favor of other measures of student achievement that teachers will determine with their principals.

For example, reliance on a single test score for gifted education services may exclude selection of students with different cultural experiences and opportunities.

He acknowledged that the analysis is limited in its heavy reliance on test scores as an indicator of student and school success and in its inability to measure every factor that goes into the parental decision - making process.