Sentences with phrase «relies on achievement test»

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Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Since the 1970s, policymakers have relied on test - based accountability (TBA) as a primary tool for improving student achievement and for reducing racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

The report, released Wednesday, relies on standards used by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the only national - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achievement.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

They say student achievement is much more than a score on a standardized test and that it's a mistake to rely so heavily on charter schools.

To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and other academic achievement data.

The measure, which won approval in the Republican - led House of Representatives late Wednesday, would ease federally imposed achievement goals that critics say relied too much on standardized tests and were unrealistic for struggling public school systems such as Baltimore's.

Most of the grade would rely on test scores with added weights for reading achievement and at - risk student performance.

Instead of relying on intelligence and achievement test scores solely for identification, multiple criteria would be used, including more non-traditional measures such as observing students interacting with a variety of learning opportunities (Passow & Frasier, 1996) it is a belief of many in the field of gifted education that new conceptions of giftedness and a new paradigm for identifying and selecting students will help minority and disadvantaged students become more represented in gifted programs (VanTassel - Baska, Patton, & Prillaman, 1991; Ford, 1996).

Instead of relying solely on national tests, as was the case in 1991 — 92, the Israeli system is beginning to implement school - based review and internal monitoring of scholastic achievement in a project that includes about 60 schools.

The new law requires states to design rating systems that rely heavily on student achievement, including proficiency rates on standardized math and reading tests, year - to - year growth on those tests and graduation rates.

All of the models being assessed by the pilot must rely on student test scores and other achievement measures for up to half a teacher's grade, from «ineffective» to «highly effective.»

However, NAESP can not support the department's recommendation to judge principal effectiveness «in significant measure» on student achievement data that relies primarily on standardized test scores.

Achievement and opportunity gaps are exacerbated by a college admissions» process that relies so heavily on standardized entry tests.