Sentences with phrase «serve diagnostic purposes»

Because pre-assessments serve diagnostic purposes, teachers normally don't grade the results.

The reasons O'Hara listed to opt - out were numerous: «The hours of instructional time lost to testing and prepping for the test; linking it to an invalid curriculum lacking empirical evidence therefore invalidating the results, setting kids up to fail; the tests serving no diagnostic purpose; using a child's score to rate a teacher's performance.»