Sentences with phrase «single test scores»

Goodbye to the days of students and schools being judged by single test scores.

Assessment professionals are clear that single test scores are not reliable or adequate measures of student progress and should not be used for high - stakes decisions.

The problem that we have is with the high - stakes nature of it — the way that these single test scores are used to make all sorts of decisions.

For starters, we faced inaccurate criticisms of our policies, like the assertion that we were forcing teachers to be fired based on a single test score.

That's the case with dozens of other «screened» high schools in New York, too, which are selective — often highly so — but don't rely exclusively on a single test score to decide who gets in.

Instead of multiple indicators of what students know, we end up with a single test score that somehow is supposed to capture everything that's inside of a student's head.»

Retaining a student should not be determined by a single test score.

A rethinking of promotion and enrollment policies so that high - stakes decisions for students are made using multiple measures and not a single test score.

The current system should not be simply repeated with a greater emphasis on a single test score.

Retaining a student should always be the last resort and should not be determined by a single test score.

Testing experts agree that using a single test score to make important decisions about individual students (such as promotion, retention or access to a particular program (e.g., gifted and talented programs] is indefensible.

But its inflexible accountability provisions have become an obstacle to progress and have focused schools too much on a single test score.

Grant Wiggins, a conference presenter, responded emphatically that a single test score should never be used to make such a decision.

Responsible student promotion and placement decisions based on more than a single test score; and

For example, reliance on a single test score for gifted education services may exclude selection of students with different cultural experiences and opportunities.

To base our whole education, our whole future on a single test score is to take away our life — to make us undead.

As if all of this wasn't clear enough, in what is undoubtedly one of the most incredible and shocking comments to come out of the Malloy administration yet, the representative of the State Department of Education told the SDE working group, «best practice dictates that educators should never make consequential decisions based on a single test score.»

In short, with today's favorable consensus, PEAC is recommending a three - tiered system with no single test score or indicator being used to assess student learning.

Taken together, such measures paint a far more robust portrait of student learning and teacher performance than a single test score.

What we must acknowledge is that effective teaching can not be measured by a single test score.

The problem is, a single test score is like a blinking «check engine» light on the dashboard.

In educational settings, a decision or characterization that will have major impact on a student should not be made on the basis of a single test score.

It is the engagement between teachers and students that produces magic that can't be described just with a single test score.

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

A psychological assessment is never focused on a single test score or number.

Not exact matches

The test instrument described among the methods in this section is comparatively easy to use and score, and it provides a helpful way to compare the outlooks of both different churches and different people within a single church.

In a testing campaign for United, Depay has struggled to impress, managing 20 Premier League appearances — of which only 12 have been starts — scoring twice and not contributing a single assist.

Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.

Mexicans and blacks are at the bottom of education levels and test scores, single parent households, crime and others.

An unremarkable score, except that 24 of them — 2 sixes and 3 fours — came off a single over (an over is six balls bowled), which merely happened to equal a Test match record.

There are too many problems with standardized tests — how they are constructed, the baggage students bring into the testing room from their regular lives, etc. — to make any serious decisions based on their score of a single test.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

... I will say, the test scores [are] never, ever the single most important thing,» she said, adding that officials consider factors such as student enrollment, capacity and other locations where students can receive better resources.

The new teacher evaluation system, tied to test scores, could make it easier for principals to single out teachers deemed ineffective, although state laws still make firing such teachers so arduous that only a few are forced out each year.

The two basic movements in the sitting - rising test — lowering to the floor and standing back up — are each scored on a 1 - to - 5 scale, with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0.5 points subtracted for loss of balance; this yields a single 10 - point scale.

The new system calculates a risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk scores, to predict significantly more cases of early - onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic disorders.

But strength is very hard to measure with a single test: some people score very highly on one test of strength, but less highly on another similar test, even when it involves the same muscle groups.

As the state notes of its system, «A central tenet of AchieveNJ is that educators are never evaluated on a single factor or test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning.»

Thus no system should rely solely on the snapshot of a single year's test scores in making decisions about incentives or consequences.

He criticizes the federal law for basing school accountability on a single year's test scores and holding schools accountable for the performance of transient students.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

then it's going to be tough for a single «score report» from a distant state test administered months earlier to convince us otherwise.

When we clump children together into a single diagnostic category based on test scores, we not only fail to address what might be causing the dyslexia, but we also ignore variability in performance that limits our ability to identify individual differences.

Indeed, with our sometimes single - minded focus on test scores, we may well be subverting the message that my English teacher offered me long ago: that it is best to be purposeful about whatever we do.

«If we want to know your intelligence, for example, we give you an IQ test that is supposed to tap a range of abilities, but then we merge that into a single score.»

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

By foregrounding the NAPLAN score scale and proficiency bands, NAPLAN would model and promote a growth mindset in assessment, an approach that follows naturally from recognition that learning occurs on a continuum and that a single year level test is inappropriate for most students.

Student scores on language arts tests are the single most reliable academic predictors of later income.