Sentences with phrase «stakes assessment»

No, they shouldn't be used for high - stakes assessment (you can find lots of articles at The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources about why that's a bad idea).

In just 30 minutes, without the pressure of a high - stakes assessment, students answer 108 simple questions about themselves.

But the bad news is that our paltry support of innovative curriculum development and our reluctance to really change our high - stakes assessment systems means that students and teachers will continue to focus on low - level kinds of learning.

We urge educators working in states that have yet to add edTPA to the list of teacher licensure requirements to resist pressures to accept what might appear to be an inevitable change, and encourage those who, like us, work in states that have adopted the edTPA as a high - stakes assessment instrument, to lobby for its elimination as a mandated licensure requirement.

Lately, our organization has been engaged in a spirited debate with former Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign against what he perceives as an onerous high stakes assessment system in public education and in the service of the promotion of a less rigorous vocational pathway to high school graduation.

«Collaborative Common Assessments brings compelling clarity, meaning, and power to the work of common assessments — not as another high - stakes assessment event, but as a focused practice that helps all students learn.

ReadyTest A-Z delivers the resources teachers need to pride effective high - stakes assessment, practice, and instruction, and a student - centric environment where kids log in to develop their test - taking skills online.

What really concerns me is the delusion that it is fair for content to be learned and applied during a high - stakes assessment.

If students need a little extra practice focusing on digital assessment question types, consider giving them a fun, low - stakes assessment.

Although the harm done by the distance and objectivity of high - stakes assessment practices is clear, more subtle incarnations of the pursuit of objectivity have similar effects.

This is a high - stakes assessment, with a school's overall passing rate (along with percentages of drop - outs and attendance levels) determining its designation as either exemplary, recognized, acceptable, or low - performing.

Unfamiliar high stakes assessment terms in a standardized test can confuse and / or discourage students.

We're concerned about the consequences of running such a high stakes assessment with young children, and when Dr Bradbury and Dr Roberts - Holmes presented their initial findings, we were shocked.

«This creates the time and space in a pupil's primary years for teachers to focus on teaching rather than on high stakes assessment.

Nationwide, the backlash to high - stakes assessment has begun to dilute the importance of classroom assessment, district common assessment, and state and national assessment.

The criterion - referenced scores are those that predict outcomes on high - stakes assessment.

In this age of federal mandates for high - stakes assessment and accountability, educators need easily accessed data that will help them predict if all students are on - track to meet grade level expectations.

Many are frustrated about an emphasis on high - stakes assessment, while others feel they have not been adequately prepared for the transition.

Scores are not rolled up into a normalizing algorithm which in the case of a high - stakes assessment might restrict scores with accommodations from being used.

This might not be politically feasible in high - stakes situations (we don't want little Johnny involved in high - stakes assessment of little Sally), but for various kinds of formative assessments, peer assessment tools might help us expand the range of the assessable.

Their work suggests that, in some states, having a high stakes assessment in place was assumed to be sufficient to promote teacher change or to encourage local districts to provide support for change.

In addition, abundant research has been conducted to examine the impact that movements toward standardization, accountability, and high - stakes assessment systems have had on teachers» practices, beliefs, attitudes, and overall effectiveness (e.g., Hamilton & Stecher, 2004; National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, 2003; Parke, Lane, & Stone, 2006).

This study was conducted at a time when CAP was a high - stakes assessment and when it was not aligned with California curriculum guidelines for teaching writing.

Applied curriculum - basedmeasurement as a predictor of high - stakes assessment: Implications for researchers

In several studies, Allington and McGill - Franzen (1992a, 1992b, McGill - Franzen & Allington, 1993) highlighted the changes in the incidence of retention, remediation, and identification of students as handicapped across a 10 - year period when New York State increased high - stakes assessment and accountability.

However, not everyone is happy with the higher weighting for the external test in some subjects, with a spokesperson for the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU), Sam Pidgeon labelling the change as introducing «high - stakes assessment».

«We think that turns one assessment item out of four into a high - stakes assessment item.

The Report Card and anything built on a similar template is not intended for or designed to be a high - stakes assessment.

Professor Andy Noyes, Head of School of Education, University of Nottingham and Jane Jones, Former National Lead for Mathematics, Ofsted, deliberated on this point considering mathematical connections in high stakes assessment as well as making the most of low stakes assessments.

Commenting on low stakes assessment, Jane Jones said: «The clues that teachers pick up in the classroom should inform how the teaching then moves on.

«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

Critics of U.S. schools» heavy emphasis on testing charge that the high - stakes assessments inflict anxiety on students and teachers, turning classrooms into test - preparation factories instead of laboratories of genuine, meaningful learning.

«The presumption was that data from high - stakes assessments would be just what teachers needed to «up their game» and teach better,» says Lecturer Kathryn Boudett,...

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

Discover ways to prepare for, cope with, detox from, and even be creative with high - stakes assessments.

Why should teachers adopt new technology when the high stakes assessments their students sit really don't build upon or fit that learning experience?»

Teachers can privilege their students» strengths in these areas and help them apply these analytical skills to the texts required in the curriculum and represented on high - stakes assessments.

Critics of high - stakes assessments will object that without an exhaustive set of controls, the assessment system will end up penalizing some teachers and schools for circumstances beyond their control.

On the other hand, high stakes assessments and their impact on teaching have limited what counts as writing in school.

This is a huge job, but testing is at the center of all this, because we're going to have high - stakes assessments on which the teachers in schools are evaluated.

It's clear that we know a lot more about low - stakes assessments than high - stakes ones, though.

The signers of the Counter-Manifesto are consistent with the sentiments of the Founders, the legislative authorizers of the Department of Education, and the American people in understanding that education standards, curriculum, and high - stakes assessments should not be done at the national level.

I have slowly learned how to successfully pilot students through interesting thematic units with high stakes assessments at the end.

What will the next generation of high - stakes assessments require?

To articulate NASSP's vision of quality assessments and propose recommendations regarding proper use of high - stakes assessments.

As the head of the K12's Curriculum and Products organization, his focus is on delivering strong student outcomes by producing and implementing standards - aligned solutions that will significantly accelerate students» growth — especially in math and reading — and drive success on high - stakes assessments.

I was troubled the other day to hear a colleague describe how hard it was to motivate a group of teachers to take on some aspect of the Common Core because they were «so focused on the high - stakes assessments.»

Now, contrary to the myth one sometimes hears, the 2012 PISA also highlights that the vast majority of high - performing countries have both demanding and high - stakes assessments.

At the same time, summative and formative assessments continually measure student outcomes and help them practice for high - stakes assessments such as the OST and EOC.

At the same time, summative and formative assessments continually measure student outcomes and help them practice for high - stakes assessments such as the NeSA - ELA and NE - ACT.