Sentences with phrase «reliance on test scores»

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.

However, it is not clear that a sole reliance on test scores in teacher recommendations would meet the law's equity goals.

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.

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.

that the Bloomberg Administration «abruptly shut down» struggling schools «with too much reliance on test scores in making the decision and not enough effort to save them.»

If they can reduce reliance on test scores in that system while still carrying the endorsement of «science,» the Gates folk imagine that politicians, educators, and others will all embrace the Gates central planning fantasy.

Rutherford is a director for the Michigan Education Association and she isn't pleased about the increased reliance on test scores.

A change of this nature would allow for a new way to measure the progress of school systems that discards the flawed reliance on test scores and looks for integral and diverse relationships within the school and the greater world.

This reliance on test scores, like their prophetic predictors of teacher quality, is ridiculous.

In its heavy reliance on test score data, the Race to the Top guidelines closely resemble No Child Left Behind, the signature education reform of the Bush administration.

Not exact matches

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.

Objections focused on numerous parts of the plan, including the reliance on standardized test scores and other measures that teachers believe are unfair and unworkable.

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.

Even if we thought test score levels or the imaginary future of VAM were good enough for PMs to manage the quality of their portfolio, the heavy reliance on those measures distorts schools in ways that are educationally harmful.

Figure 2: Evolution of school spending and test scores for states with heavy reliance on state revenue sources to fund public education

Linda Darling Hammond from Stanford University criticized IMPACT's heavy reliance on test - score growth, which can be an unreliable way to measure teacher effectiveness.

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.

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.

On the other hand, performance - based assessments such as the edTPA provide a promising approach to reducing reliance on standardized test scores and the resulting racial disparities among the teacher workforcOn the other hand, performance - based assessments such as the edTPA provide a promising approach to reducing reliance on standardized test scores and the resulting racial disparities among the teacher workforcon standardized test scores and the resulting racial disparities among the teacher workforce.

Since districts are locked in to certain state tests (sbac), that would mean district tests would be first to go... which all adds up to more time spent prepping for edreformer backed tests because there will be a heavier reliance on those scores.

But other education experts are more skeptical — Linda Darling Hammond from Stanford University criticized IMPACT's heavy reliance on test - score growth, which can be an unreliable way to measure teacher effectiveness.

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.

The advocacy group FairTest says the NAEP scores again highlight the nation's unhealthy reliance on standardized testing to boost achievement.

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

While The College Board and its president, David Coleman, the architect of Common Core, is focused on increasing its dwindling market share, many colleges and universities have moved away from reliance on such test scores in their admission policies.

They follow years of reliance on the now - suspended Academic Performance Index, a measure that depended on test scores that, in the words of board member Bruce Holaday, «make real estate agents so happy» in its simplicity.

On Saturday, education experts and researchers addressed a letter to the Board of Regents that condemns the reliance on value - added test scoring, a measure which they have found to be volatilOn Saturday, education experts and researchers addressed a letter to the Board of Regents that condemns the reliance on value - added test scoring, a measure which they have found to be volatilon value - added test scoring, a measure which they have found to be volatile.