Sentences with phrase «single achievement test»

Using a single achievement test to sanction students, educators, schools, districts, states / provinces, or countries is an inappropriate use of assessment.

Using a single achievement test as the sole measure of learning is inappropriate.

Not exact matches

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

While the push for higher levels of academic achievement and accountability continues to increase, more people have realized that a single test can not provide a comprehensive evaluation of student performance.

In other words, the diploma potentially captures achievements over time, rather than the ability to do well on a short, mostly multiple - choice test taken on a single day.

SBA is leading to an increased emphasis on student achievement, and many educators laud this focus, but a single - minded emphasis on student proficiency on tests has some potentially negative consequences such as narrowing curriculum and declining staff morale.

-- Overall Student Performance Standardized tests are not designed to be the single determinant of a student's achievement and knowledge.

An Overview of Research on the Effectiveness of Retention on Student Achievement for New York City School Children This report examines the harmful effects of retention, including the blanket strategy of using a single test to determine if a student should be held back.

Some achievement tests are written for specific grade levels, and have few questions above or below that single grade level.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

And in turns of getting great «student achievement» results (aka high test scores) I could spend the whole year having students read nothing but newspaper extracts and single pages ripped from any current fiction.

Grade - level achievement tests are normed for no more than a single grade level, and at the youngest grades, only 1/2 a grade level (spring or fall).

ESSA continues requiring a single state achievement test system beginning in 3rd grade, but it would be up to the states, not the U.S. Dept. of Education, to «decide how to use the testing results to measure and improve school performance.»

This detailed information about student academic growth should be used instead of AGT scores or any other measurements based on a single test, as teachers and administrators seek to use data to inform best practices that will improve student achievement;» [emphasis ours]

According to the National Council of Teachers of English, «Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term «formative -LSB-...]

Instead of judging schools based on a snapshot of a single year's test scores, we compared results during a four - year period, looking for trends in student achievement.

Hence, and also as per the National Research Council (NRC), «it is not feasible to compare «the full array of currently administered commercial and state achievement tests to one another, through the development of a single equivalency or linking scale.»

In special education, reliance on the single measure of a high stakes test is not necessary since a direct measure of student learning is available: achievement of IEP goals and objectives.

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