Sentences with phrase «stakes consequences attached»

The AFT has called for an end to the testing obsession and for a moratorium on the high - stakes consequences attached to the Common Core State Standards - aligned assessments until the more rigorous standards have been implemented properly.

One of the biggest complaints about NCLB was the test - and - punish nature of the law — the high - stakes consequences attached to student standardized test scores.

Not exact matches

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two - year moratorium on attaching high - stakes consequences to the New York state tests for teachers and students.

The international tests are low stakes in the sense that no consequences are attached to a student's performance.

The evidence suggests that attaching stakes to tests can produce some unintended consequences, but there is reason to believe that it can also lead to gains on low - stakes exams.

By that I mean let's not attach punitive consequences and make these high - stakes assessments, at least not initially.

The earliest and most common form of high - stakes testing was the practice of attaching consequences to high school graduation exams (i.e., students had to pass a test to receive a high school diploma).

This occurred in large part due to Sanders's (and others») lobbying efforts when the federal government ultimately choose to incentivize and de facto require that all states hold their teachers accountable for their value - added, or lack thereof, while attaching high - stakes consequences (e.g., teacher termination) to teachers» value - added estimates.

So while he testified on behalf of the state, he also testified he was not necessarily in favor of the consequences being attached to the state's teacher evaluation output, even if as currently being positioned by the defense as «low - stakes.»

In my current state of New Jersey, a bill that would pause the high stakes consequences for teachers and students attached to Common Core assessments and establish a task force to review the Common Core and accompanying PARCC assessments passed the New Jersey Assembly with an overwhelming bipartisan vote (72 yes; 4 no; 4 abstentions, with 84 % of Republicans and 94 % of Democrats voting yes).

Some of these consequences / connectors are also at the source of the now 15 lawsuits occurring across the nation because of the low - to - high stakes consequences being attached to these data (see information about these 15 lawsuits here).

Whether high - stakes consequences will still be attached to such output, along with the observational and other testing data to account for the other 65 %, is to be seen.

When high - stakes consequences are to be attached, this matters even more.

For what use was the measure designed, and how might data be distorted if attached to high - stakes consequences?