Sentences with phrase «stake accountability»

Far too little is still being done, however, to reform the high stakes accountability system that is the root cause of excessive workload.

The high - stakes accountability system is no excuse.

Under certain conditions, they can apply to high - stakes accountability testing in state - level assessments and with college entrance exams.

That's exactly what a study of high - stakes accountability in an urban district found.

There is a need to balance high - stakes accountability with ongoing support and feedback, focused on improvement.

It's very controversial in many states, especially when it's used in high stakes accountability measures.

The only open question is whether the results of the official tests will be used for high stakes accountability purposes, especially federal funding.

To give this reform «teeth,» high - stakes accountability for schools was connected to the state assessment, complete with rewards and sanctions for teachers.

The unintended consequences of high - stakes accountability policies are well documented.

Unfortunately, in education, particularly in this high - stakes accountability era, failure has become the term attached to our persistent challenges.

But, she says, there are «serious limitations» with trying to use those same 12 questions, or something like them, in a high - stakes accountability context.

I personally wouldn't use social and emotional competence assessments for high - stakes accountability at this time.

This inspiring text offers a refreshing alternative to the portfolio and high - stakes accountability models of school improvement.

Don't get caught in the high - stakes accountability maze without a plan.

High - stakes accountability typically relies on state level assessment data that carries consequences for performance.

This increasing diversity of the school - aged population has occurred within the context of the standards - based education movement and its accompanying high - stakes accountability testing.

Historically, tests have been designed to measure skills efficiently, but in the face of high - stakes accountability systems, many teachers have begun teaching to tests.

They are not intended to be high stakes accountability measures.

In each of these examples, the students affected most negatively by high - stakes accountability policies are those most at - risk of dropping out.

Putting high stakes accountability on measuring SEL skills could lead to corruption that distorts or hides the outcomes meant to be monitored.

We need an undertaking that the government will change the destructive high stakes accountability regime that blights our system.

** «High stakes accountability drives dropouts» — Wrong.

«But I'm just not sure that these measures are fine tuned enough to make high stakes accountability decisions with.»

This article describes how educators transferred high - stakes accountability pressures from the classroom to an intervention program for immigrant parents of lower achievers.

Research on how high - stakes accountability affects test performance has found that scores on high - stakes tests tend to improve with accountability, often dramatically, whereas performance on low - stakes tests with a different format but similar content improves only slightly or not at all.

High - stakes tests cause more incentives for cheating (on the Atlanta cheating scandal) «In many ways it's not surprising, because of the current emphasis on high - stakes accountability using standardized tests, and standardized tests almost exclusively.

In this day of high - stakes accountability teachers must implement effective assessment strategies to meet intended performance outcomes, determine what students know, and clarify which instructional approaches are most successful at raising achievement s.

In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar for his project, The Long - Run Influence of School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college preparation.

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

«However, the report fails to grasp that the real reason for the loss of these activities is the high stakes accountability based on pupils» outcomes in tests and examinations which is narrowing the curriculum and the opportunities available to children and young people, and which teachers and school leaders have long been warning is a serious problem.

By using the term «gaming» to describe the practice of schools trying to improve their metrics, we are missing the real problem, which is the high - stakes accountability culture itself, says Brian Lightman

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

The clarity offered by streamlining the high - stakes accountability demanded by Ofsted, the DfE, the regional schools commissioners and local authorities would be welcome.

More than 15 years ago, Ginsberg and Berry (1990) found that teacher working conditions associated with South Carolina's high - stakes accountability movement were linked to high levels of emotional exhaustion, and Corcoran, Walker, and White (1998) found that the lack of resources (materials and equipment, for example) created stress among teachers, and in doing so, lowered both their sense of efficacy and attendance.

Although it's data for high - stakes accountability like teacher evaluation and school performance metrics that draws headlines, even data for low - stakes purposes, like academic research, is hard to come by in California.

This is more important now than ever with the existence of the state's Performance Framework and high stakes accountability ratings leading to automatic revocation for non-performers.

While some states, districts, and schools implemented problematic test preparation practices as a result of high - stakes accountability environments, those «drill and kill» multiple choice worksheets do not need to be the only strategy for enhancing student achievement.

Book review: Overtested: How high - stakes accountability fails English language learners.

First the standards, then the professional development, the textbooks, and then the tests, he said, noting that «no high - performing country» has the same kind of high - stakes accountability as the U.S. does.

Because of CCSS, some states openly admonish rote memorization and high stakes accountability now.

«Attempting to equate test results in a high - stake accountability system with serious sanctions is a dubious idea at best.

In a letter to Torlakson last week, Cortines joined a growing group of local superintendents» seeking permission to ignore the test results for «high stakes accountability purposes.»

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

«It is the Government's own policies which have resulted in excessive and increasing teacher workloads, dwindling pay, starting salaries which are increasingly uncompetitive with other graduate professions and the relentless pressure of the high - stakes accountability regime.

He seems to think that lowering expectations will be more «relevant» to our students, and he uses popular mythology in attempting to make his case, such as «high stakes accountability drives dropouts» and «teaching to the test is taking away from learning», neither of which has any foundation.

«But I'm just not sure that these measures are fine - tuned enough to make high - stakes accountability decisions with.»

Purpose / Focus: The purpose of this study was to investigate what happens when low - performing urban schools bring high - stakes accountability pressures to parent programs, to shed light on possible new directions in family engagement.