Sentences with phrase «stakes attached»

Certainly there are those within the state who are working hard to eliminate the tests altogether and / or eliminate the high stakes attached for students.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

Others worry because teachers unions are calling for a moratorium on stakes attached to student testing until the new CCSS standards have been fully implemented, which may take several years.

The high stakes attached pressure school districts to spend inordinate amounts of time on test prep.

The massive emphasis on new external, standardized exams, often with high stakes attached, has intensified the domination of summative tests over curriculum and instruction — even though the research examined by Black and William supports the conclusion that summative assessments tend to have a negative effect on student learning.

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Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

Assessment is, of course, a vital part of education, but the stakes attached to these tests are way out of balance when such a limited and imperfect measure of achievement counts for more than all the assessments of all the students» teachers,» says Orfield.

High school exams that are based on state standards are changing what and how students learn, whether or not they have high stakes attached to them, a report on two school districts suggests.

We need to either pause the move to the tougher tests or pause the stakes attached to the teacher evaluations.

We need to either pause the move to the tougher tests (as Tennessee recently did) or pause the stakes attached to the teacher evaluations (as the District of Columbia recently did).

And every year, the stakes attached to such tests rise higher and higher.

All of the available studies have relied primarily on data drawn from periods when there were no stakes attached to the teacher value - added measures.

The effect is mediated by numerous factors: teachers» knowledge, beliefs, and existing practices; the economic, social, philosophical, and political conditions of the school or district; the stakes attached to the policy; and the quality of the support and lines of communication provided to teachers and administrators.

Translation: Whatever rhetoric the vendors use to mask the loss of local control, it is important to remember that the national test frameworks and eventually the released test items will become the actual local curriculum due to the stakes attached to the test results.

When these tests have such high stakes attached to them — graduation, promotion, school grade, teacher evaluations, school closings and even principal bonuses — there is no question that teachers will teach to the test.

Pasco Superintendent Kurt Browning joined the ranks of public education advocates across the state when he sent a letter asking Gov. Scott to issue and Executive Order to suspend all stakes attached to the 2015 FSA scores.

He asserted that such tests should be given only «occasionally» as is the practice at his daughters» private school, and even then shouldn't have high - stakes attached.

Most of the evidence cited above involves low - stakes measures, but the validity and reliability of all the measures is likely to be influenced by the stakes attached to them.

We are more than 10 years into a massive reform effort revolving around high stakes attached to standardized tests, and there is no significant growth in actual learning — even in terms of the test scores most valued by proponents.

As I have written elsewhere, the stakes attached to any measure should be inversely proportional to the measure's validity and reliability.

Advocates, please continue to take action and ask Gov. Scott to issue an Executive Order to suspend using Florida Standards Assessment for any purpose and pause the state's entire accountability system until a thorough, transparent study can prove its components, including high stakes attached to testing, are good for public education.

Collectively, the studies show that despite states» efforts to make evaluations tougher, principals continue to rate nearly all teachers as «effective,» and when principals are asked their opinions of teachers in confidence, with no stakes attached, they are much more likely to give harsh ratings.

when principals are asked their opinions of teachers in confidence, with no stakes attached, they are much more likely to give harsh ratings

The impact of having a large cohort of pupils with SEN on a school's progress measures could be significant, and given the high stakes attached to meeting floor and coasting standards, you could understand if primary school leaders wanted to limit the numbers of pupils with SEN at the school.

Given the stakes attached to testing, the less proven the idea, the more we need to try it in a low - risk environment.

Parents and educators alike have increasingly lashed out against the high number of standardized tests students must take, the high stakes attached to those test results, and the narrowed curriculum that occurs when schools are held accountable for students» test results in only two or three subjects.

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.»

According to FairTest, the high stakes attached to tests have led to narrowing curriculum, teaching to the test, score inflation and cheating scandals.

The tests have sparked controversy, both in regards to the content, which many parents and educators consider poorly designed and developmentally inappropriate, and to the high stakes attached to them, in particular, their unreliable use in the teacher evaluation system, a practice that is widely criticized and currently under review in an Albany court.

Those tests do assess ELA ability, but I don't think even the best value added model can fully control for home environment so I have concerns about the high stakes attached to the tests.

Because the stakes attached to these tests are different for different communities, this new movement against standardized testing would do well to embrace a multifaceted approach.

Let's hope the senators were not surprised when the high stakes attached to reading and math scores emerged as the primary reason little time is spent on geography: Data on student access to geography education showed that a small portion of instruction time is spent on the subject.

I think it's a bit over-the-top, but it does echo my opinion that student evaluations of teachers should have no high - stakes attached to them.

In other words, according to Campbell's law, the higher the stakes attached to any measure, the less valid that measure becomes.

That's because of the increasingly high stakes attached to the tests required under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.

Even though NCLB mandated 17 federally required tests, the high stakes attached to them led states and districts to start administering multiple interim benchmark tests to see how well students would do on the federal tests.

Moreover, in states with the highest stakes attached to test results, NAEP reading scores for students living in poverty appeared to decline.

The stakes attached to a test affect the correlations between value - added estimates based on different tests.

External assessments occur less frequently than internal assessments, but they usually have greater importance, more authority, and higher stakes attached to them.

At least one subject of debate has unified some members of the more activist wings of their parties — those who agree that testing and the stakes attached should be radically reduced.

At the Daily Kos, readers were told that «the tests, and the stakes attached to them, are the issue.

Further, if your goal is to know if individual students are progressing in their learning then there are far more important tools that could be used by teachers in formative assessments without any stakes attached that could inform them and parents far more effectively than a mass standardized test whose results come back well into the following school year.