Sentences with phrase «stakes assessments scores»

· Increase student achievement results, in areas including PSAT / SAT, AP Exams, and State of Illinois required exams, and other high stakes assessments scores, through coaching focused on improving the quality of classroom instruction.

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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.

Koretz's research focuses on educational assessment and policy, particularly high - stakes testing and its effect on schools, as well as the validity of the score gains.

Upgrading assessments to make them more suitable for use in high - stakes decisions, such as by lessening the focus on multiple - choice questions, likely entails increased costs (especially for scoring).

The inquiry - based science students scored higher on the high - stakes state assessment, and these gains lasted up to one and half years.

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

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.»

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

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.

PARCC will also replace the one end - of - year high stakes accountability test with a series of assessments throughout the year that will be averaged into one score for accountability purposes, reducing the weight given to a single test administered on a single day, and providing valuable information to students and teachers throughout the year.

It didn't matter that assessment experts repeatedly said standardized test scores should not be used for high - stakes decisions and are only a narrow window into how well a student is performing.

And in some cases, students in charter schools have achieved higher scores on high stakes assessments than those in the traditional public schools.

Their avowed goals include less testing, an end to high - stakes uses of tests (that is, making decisions about students, educators, or schools solely or primarily on test scores), and implementation of other, educationally sound assessment practices.

Similar to low - stakes writing assessments, WriteLab offers suggestions rather than scores.

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

The attention to each state's annual assessment has led some to refer to these tests as «high stakes» because important decisions about students could result from state test scores.

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

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

In today's climate of high stakes testing, business leaders and politicians continue to demand better results with data driven assessments and test scores.

Given the experience to date with an overwhelming focus on student achievement scores as a basis for high - stakes decisions, policymakers would do well to pause and carefully examine the issues that make teacher assessment so complex before implementing an assessment plan.

The reviews are rolling in for the book I had the privileged editing, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing, from the most prestigious book industry trade journals and progressive news outlets, and I am simply overwhelmed by the early critical acclaim — because what starts as a book club discussion, can end in an education revolution to reclaim assessment from the «testocracy.»

In other words, although high stakes may cause test scores to rise on a particular assessment, those scores may not reflect true gains in student learning.

Further, student achievement in the 18 high - stakes testing states has not improved on a range of measures, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, despite higher scores on the states» own assessment.»

The development of interactive computer tasks and their automated scoring engines is challenging, particularly when used within high - stakes assessments.