Sentences with phrase «snapshot of student performance»

The limitations of education systems — with insufficiently developed state data systems, as well as assessment systems that at best could capture a summative snapshot of student performance by grade, year - to - year (without actually tracking student progress over time)-- presented major challenges.

State test scores provide a snapshot of student performance, so they may not show how much progress was made over the year.

Interim assessments provide teachers, students, and parents with a snapshot of student performance up to that point in the school year.

Move to an assessment system that takes a «motion picture» of growth over time, instead of a snapshot of student performance on a given day.

I rely heavily on mCLASS aggregated reports, which provide a snapshot of student performance.

Administered since 1990, the NAEP is highly regarded because it provides periodic snapshots of student performance while tracking progress over time.

Not exact matches

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

A group of high - powered policymakers and educators gathered here last week to build support for a new vision of educational assessment that is less a snapshot of students» one - time performance and more like good instruction itself.

Supporters of vouchers and charter schools, however, pointed to the study's limitations, saying it gave only a snapshot of performance, not a sense of how students progress over time.

State tests tend to provide results that are too coarse to offer more than a snapshot of student and school performance, and few district data systems link student achievement metrics to teachers, practices, or programs in a way that can help determine what is working.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

The illustration provides a snapshot of student achievement using standards - based grading, and captures each students» status, or the academic performance of each student, at a single point in time.

Standardized tests can not be the only measurement the public gets to interpret on student and school performance since the results are limited as snapshots of the past.

Through this candid and comprehensive snapshot of performance, CCSA is looking to raise the performance bar and to support the expansion of those charter schools that are having a high impact on their students» futures.

A NAEP snapshot of Connecticut student performance shows that math scores have fallen since 2000, from 10 points above the national average to matching it.

The test results on a shorter «snapshot» of student achievement could, then, be put in proper perspective with more meaningful authentic measures of student learning, reflected in daily school performance, portfolio and long - term projects, report card information, graduation rate statistics, and school climate surveys.

Teachers do not grade students on a one - time snapshot of their performance but rather work with the students to keep them engaged in rethinking, revising, trying again and again until the students do achieve the goals that the faculty has identified for them.

Based on state standardized test results, the Academic Performance Index (API) score is a snapshot of how students are doing academically at a school.

For more information about the performance of Virginia students on the 2015 NAEP, see the following state snapshot reports from NCES:

This brief provides a snapshot of the rules for including student achievement data in evaluations of teacher performance in selected Race to the Top grantee States.

Because the tests measure different groups of students from year to year, the results are best used as snapshots of performance relative to other countries at one point in time.