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CEA President Sheila Cohen and CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg, who both serve on PEAC, said mastery tests are not designed for the evaluation of teachers or administrators.

Not exact matches

Several teachers attending Monday's event spoke at length about the impact of Common Core testing requirements, saying they result in more «teaching to the test» rather than substantial learning and mastery.

Some 120,000 booklets containing tests to measure student mastery of individual skills have already been distributed, he said.

For him, the best evidence of this is not just improved test scores or faster mastery of content but when parents say that their children are excited about learning and can't wait to get up in the morning and go to school.

The comparison isn't among tests, but about mastery levels, he said.

When test scores are «inflated» - by, say, cheating or intense preparation that is geared to a specific exam - observed achievement gains are misleading because they do not reflect a more general mastery of the subject.

Third through fifth grades were chosen for greater laptop access to help those students prepare for the Connecticut State Mastery Tests, which are given in fourth and sixth grades, Grignano said.

Relay's handbook says its students instead can use tests they acquire elsewhere or even write themselves, if the assessments show mastery of state or Common Core standards, or of standards set by charter networks or individual schools.

Information gleaned from a state mastery test «creates inquiry,» he said, and that has to be examined.

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None of the tests assessed what the authors call «knowledge for teaching», which they say involves the deep mastery of an academic subject that goes beyond, but is intimately connected to, the highest K - 12 academic standards.

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&ratest.»

But now, just a year later, Pryor is saying that although he knew the shift to the Common Core was taking place and despite the fact that shifting to the common core would lead to lower test scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performatest scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performaTest, he still spent $ 25 million or more conducting the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performaTest and never once suggested that teacher evaluation plans would need to take into account the news that at drop in scores was not a reflection of a teacher's performance.

The Hartford Courant, in a story written by Vanessa De La Torre, is reporting that, «In a statement, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said the department retained the law firm of Siegel, O'Connor, O'Donnell and Beck, P.C. to investigate «potential irregularities detected on Betances Elementary School's 2013 Connecticut Mastery Tests.»

Tests that can assess students» mastery of skills and knowledge are as important as the Common Core standards themselves, say many educators and education reformers.