Sentences with phrase «school alternative assessments»

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The bill was first announced Thursday in the Assembly, with Democrats backing legislation that would replace state - created or written examinations with alternative assessments for school districts that do not use state tests, with regulations set by the state Education Department.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

The 4 +1 option would apply beginning with students who first entered ninth grade in or after September 2011 and thereafter or who are otherwise eligible to receive a high school diploma in June 2015 and thereafter and have passed four required Regents exams (or Department - approved alternative assessments) in English, mathematics, science and social studies.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

Under this amendment to NCLB, schools that develop rigorous alternative forms of student evaluation could appeal to an outside agency for approval to use their homegrown assessments in place of state assessments.

Dr. Steve Seidel, an expert on alternative student assessment, has been named Director of Harvard Project Zero (HPZ), a research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that explores the development of learning in children, adults, and organizations.

She's permitted some school districts that have failed to reach proficiency targets to continue to provide tutoring to students, and given leeway when it comes to using alternative assessments for special education students.

All four states are experiencing some degree of teacher shortage; all have alternative routes to certification; all have charter - school legislation; all have adopted standards in core subjects; all use criterion - referenced assessments aligned to standards; and all are collective bargaining states.

Mathematics and science reforms at the state level over the past five years have focused on curricula and alternative assessments, a national survey by the Council of Chief State School Officers has found.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

As a parent, it's critical that you know about alternative types of classroom - based assessments, in addition to traditional tests and the standardized tests mandated by your school district or state department of education.

And he sent back a proposed law that would have allowed schools to use «alternative assessments» for students who had failed the state's high school exit exam.

However, using alternative assessments makes it difficult to compare the performance of ESA students to students in other schools, both public and private.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

If states choose to use this tool, they can require students to either take the same state assessment that all public school students take, or they can allow students to take alternative exams.

Allow, during a transition period, alternatives to computer - based assessment for students in schools that have not yet provided them with sufficient access to, and experience with, the required technology.

alternative assessments shall be available for use by any school or school district in New York State; and

alternative assessments shall be developed by an entity other than a local school or school district;

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessschool graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessSchool in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

Members of the State Board of Education approved today multiple alternative assessment methods for determining third grade reading proficiency, which were put forth by local school districts in an effort to reduce the burdensome testing methods that have...

This forum, hosted for educators and by educators to discuss pressing education issues, will feature Russell Quaglia, founder and president of the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations; Kaya Henderson, chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools; and Bena Kallick, ASCD author and international consultant in group dynamics, creative and critical thinking, and alternative assessment strategies.

(c) Beginning with teacher evaluations for the 2015 - 2016 school year, if a teacher's schedule is comprised of grade levels, courses, or subjects for which the value - added progress dimension prescribed by section 3302.021 of the Revised Code or an alternative student academic progress measure if adopted under division (C)(1)(e) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code does not apply, nor is student progress determinable using the assessments required by division (B)(2) of this section, the teacher's student academic growth factor shall be determined using a method of attributing student growth determined in accordance with guidance issued by the department of education.

School divisions must certify that they have provided instruction and administered an alternative assessment, consistent with Board of Education guidelines, to students in grades and subject areas that no longer have a corresponding SOL test.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

Once the locally - developed alternative assessments are officially endorsed by their local school boards, any of the state's 115 school districts can pick and choose from those alternatives for use in their own school districts in lieu of the portfolio system.

Such programs as Paideia, Microsociety, and the Coalition of Essential Schools already use project - based and hands - on learning, embrace alternative assessments, and encourage students to apply their knowledge to real - life problems.

7.2 A formal transition process for students from entry to exit which includes the following elements: an orientation which consists of rapport building, assessment of the student, IEP review, information and record sharing regarding the student, short and long - term goal setting, development of an individualized student plan, and other mechanisms designed to orient the student to the alternative education setting is in place at exemplary schools.

The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students complete high school through means other than a high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into higher education or an applied technology college without graduating high school) and some special education students are retained in high school beyond their senior year.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at the Frank Wise special school in Oxfordshire, said he thought it was «coincidental» that the review of assessment of pupils with lower attainment by special school headteacher Diane Rochford had been announced during the passage of the bill, and said alternative and special needs provision should also be «part of the debate».

We are being told that our evaluation system will require our full comprehension and maintenance of: measures of teacher practice observation option selection forms, evaluator forms, consistent update of class lists / rosters, observation options A, B, C, D, the Matrix, and MOSL options (project based learning assessments, student learning inventories, performance based assessments, and progress monitoring assessments), not to mention how this plays out for what people teach (elementary / middle / high school, alternative assessment, English as a New Language, content areas, etc).

Visit the consortium's site (www.performanceassessment.org) to learn about these schools» self - styled assessment systems and to get pointers for advocating for alternatives to high - stakes tests in your own state or district.

Inside, the reader will find two papers and summaries of roundtables that provide policy recommendations and practical advice on how to structure contextual teaching and learning and alternative assessments activities at the high school level.

Threat assessment represents an important component of a comprehensive approach to school safety that gives schools an alternative to zero tolerance discipline policies that have proven to be ineffective and counterproductive.

The legislation requires that the alternative assessment method must be designed to assess a student's mastery of the essential knowledge and skills in writing through timed writing samples; improvement of a student's writing skills from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year; a student's ability to follow the writing process from rough draft to final product; and a student's ability to produce more than one type of writing.

Lear's focus over the years has been on redesigning high schools, including an early and long interest in alternative schools and work as a senior researcher at the Coalition of Essential Schools, where he was an early advocate for performance assesschools, including an early and long interest in alternative schools and work as a senior researcher at the Coalition of Essential Schools, where he was an early advocate for performance assesschools and work as a senior researcher at the Coalition of Essential Schools, where he was an early advocate for performance assesSchools, where he was an early advocate for performance assessments.

TEA is required to pilot the alternative writing assessment method in designated school districts across the state during the 2016 - 2017 and 2017 - 2018 school years.

In one elementary school - based study, parents indicated that much of their discomfort with alternative assessment was based on the fact that they were accustomed to standardized testing and letter grades on report cards (Diffily, 1994).

Implementing higher standards and alternative assessment and grading policies in high schools: What do educators need to know about what parents think?

He goes on to recommend an alternative assessment where schools would be held accountable based on student's improvement on standardized tests.

These advocates believe the lack of caps on the number of students that could take alternative assessments and the absence of federal interventions for schools that don't improve the achievement of students with disabilities mean such students could be subject to lower expectations and support.

In another study in which elementary school parents were asked about their views regarding alternative assessment, most parents admitted having difficulty expressing their opinions because of lack of general knowledge about assessment (Robinson, 1996).

(b) The purposes of establishing charter schools are: (i) to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; (ii) to provide opportunities for innovative learning and assessments; (iii) to provide parents and students with greater options in selecting schools within and outside their school districts; (iv) to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management; (v) to encourage performance - based educational programs; (vi) to hold teachers and school administrators accountable for students» educational outcomes; and (vii) to provide models for replication in other public schools.

It required a school district or charter school to use an alternative method to determine whether a third grade student's reading ability is sufficient to promote that student from the third grade if the parent has opted - out from the statewide student assessment system.

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(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?

$ 124 million for awards to claimants resulting from the independent assessment process in alternative dispute settlement resolution related to the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement;

He is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of character education, assessment, special education, and correctional and alternative schools.

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