Sentences with phrase «stakes assessments begin»

Until high - stakes assessments begin to reflect these priorities, higher order skills will continue to get short shrift in schools.

Not exact matches

«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.

This can take many forms in the classroom — low - stakes multiple - choice formative assessment, group discussion, open - ended essay prompts, etc. — and it can occur at the beginning of class, as a transition activity, or to end class.

This high - stakes test raised some questions from the group about the use of a single assessment to make such determinations as graduation, but Stickel responded that students are allowed six chances to pass the test, beginning in sophomore year and ending the year after they finish grade 12.

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

But the teaching of reading veered significantly off track when those personal connections (also well represented on some high - stakes state assessments) began to dominate the teaching and testing of comprehension, often leaving the text itself a distant memory.