Sentences with phrase «sole measure of achievement»
The trust at the core of these relationships, contends Meier, is often sacrificed when standardization turns schools into academic grindstones and when test scores become the sole measure of achievement.
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The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»
That's because our friends at the Department of Education read ESSA's language to mean that proficiency rates — and proficiency rates alone — must be the sole measure of «academic achievement.»
Using a single achievement test as the sole measure of learning is inappropriate.
For example, NAEP scores are measures of the overall achievement level of students and not necessarily an accurate reflection of the quality of each state's school system, yet they were used as the sole measure of academic achievement.
The use of high - stakes testing as the sole measure of student achievement is justly under increased scrutiny.
The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2014 is to promote multimetric accountability so that standardized test scores are not the sole measure of student achievement, educator effectiveness, or school quality.
Using any standardized achievement test for a purpose for which it was not designed violates nationally - accepted standards of the testing profession, of the state of Illinois and the U. S. Department of Education, and the guidelines of the test makers themselves (see Attachment 2 — PURE Fact Sheet: «Testing professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions»).
As a result of the limited applicability of teacher value - added measures to the full population of teachers as well as concerns about potential mis - measurement of effectiveness associated with using value - added measures even when available, neither seniority nor measures of value - added to student achievement should be the sole criterion determining layoffs.