Sentences with phrase «stakes assessment which»

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This is in contrast to «summative assessment,» which measures learning at the end of the unit or term, or for high - stakes tests.

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.

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

On the left, some of the opposition to Common Core and its assessments is related to broader resistance to high - stakes testing, the linking of student scores to teacher evaluations, and other reform measures such as school choice, which some see as «corporate school reform.»

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized tests (Iowa Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.

For example, using the Baseball Card, which is an ad - hoc reporting tool available in ADMS and Unify, we can look at how students performed on high - stakes tests, district benchmark assessments, and other measures including the SAT, reading comprehension, and course grades.

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.

Forecasting reports for the SBAC and other high - stakes state assessments are part of the Achieve3000 platform's robust reporting package, which also empowers teachers and administrators to monitor their students» progress on key literacy skills and mastery of state standards as well as forecast their Lexile reading growth.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

She added, «The state can and should halt its hellbent race towards computerized testing, for which it is clearly ill - prepared; stop farming out test construction to dubious for - profit companies; truly shorten the exams; and, most important, remove high stakes attached to the assessments.»

«Our conversations with parents show that they want tests and assessments which help schools understand their children - on a regular basis with lower stakes - rather than what are fast becoming high - profile, high - pressure exams.»

Rubrics, which classroom teachers routinely use for formative assessment, compound the distance created by high - stakes tests.

This consensus around high - stakes testing has contributed to enthusiasm for value - added assessment, in which teachers are assessed in part on the basis of how their students fare on standardized tests.

Jack Buckley, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (which administers NAEP) who is now with the College Board, told me Tuesday that there are certainly risks to increasing an assessment's stakes.

Another way, research suggests, is to emphasize formative data — low - stakes classroom assessments created by teachers to guide instruction, which can have a strong, positive influence on student performance and motivation (Wiliam & Thompson, 2007).

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.

«Educators, parents, students, and policymakers are voicing growing frustration with the current models of high - stakes assessments used across the United States, which rely too heavily on low - level end - of - year tests,» said Bryan Goodwin, president and CEO of McREL International, and co-author of the new white paper, Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability.

Unlike with lesson plan sampling, there was «broad agreement in principle that this is an attractive safeguard», and Ofqual believes this option gives awarding organisations a «potentially valuable safeguard which would permit the use of teachers in developing even the most high - stakes assessments».

Unlike high - stakes testing — which is used for so many quasi-instructional and contradictory purposes — formative assessment primarily has a strategic instructional purpose.

Unlike high - stakes testing, which undermines good schools and prevents real improvement, better forms of assessment can play a powerful role in improving schools.