Riding what they see as a wave of anti-testing sentiment among parents, opponents of high -
stakes assessments believe a strategy known as opt - out — having parents refuse to let their children take state - mandated tests — could force policymakers to take note of their cause.
Not exact matches
The
stakes are high for this
assessment, not only because it will be a primary determinant of the timing of Federal Reserve policy tightening; the more one
believes that current high long - term unemployment is cyclically (demand) driven rather than structurally (mismatch and demographic) driven, the more one
believes workers can be brought back into employment through monetary (or other) stimulus.»
In addition, since these
assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they
believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high -
stakes accountability systems.
Paradoxically, teachers
believe that administrators give more attention to external, high -
stakes assessments than the internal
assessments of daily work that are linked to instruction.
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».
Due to the high
stakes associated with these
assessments teachers and students
believe all their time should be devoted to preparing and taking tests.
It's also true that nobody
believes social and emotional learning measurement should be employed for over-the-top, high
stakes and punitive
assessment systems that we saw academic achievement testing used for in the extremes of the No Child Left Behind era.