Sentences with phrase «stakes decision»

Sellers are making a high - stakes decision.

It's great news that they are saying that SEL measurements should not be used for any kind of high - stakes decision - making.

It's not so great news that they seem to say what's really needed in order to start using SEL skills in high - stakes decision - making is just a better way to measure those SEL skills.

If I make too many choices that deplete her sanity, I could be at risk of a mental shutdown in the face of a high - stakes decision.

Yet, as I note in the book, school administrators now must (in many states) account for statistical models of VAMs in high - stakes decision and, in turn, so must courts.

It is not designed to rank and compare students or to be used for high stakes decision - making.

Additionally, state education agencies acting as authorizers may face political pressures that complicate high - stakes decision making regarding schools.42

Here in California, the SBAC assessments have been carefully examined by independent examiners of the test content who concluded that they lack validity, reliability, and fairness, and should not be administered, much less be considered a basis for high - stakes decision making.»

If we are using such student performances for high - stakes decision making, we will need to make sure that the determinations are valid (that we measure what we mean to measure) and reliable (that the measure will yield the same results on repeated trials).

Inter - and intra-rater reliability is also increasingly needed as evaluations inform high - stakes decision making, but this has not been developed yet (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994; Mathers, Oliva, & Laine, 2008; Mujis, 2006).

Koretz also discusses how any single indicator used for high - stakes decision - making is more likely to become corrupted.

EXCERPT: «The ACT College - Ready Benchmarks are too imprecise for high - stakes decision - making.

Screening within an RTI framework is a high - stakes decision.

Their input helps to guide staff work and is critical to high - stakes decision making.

And lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

While day - to - day decisions are left to the authorizing staff, Fordham has a thoughtful, experienced, and engaged leadership team (which includes the head of Fordham's authorizing shop) and board of trustees whose input helps to guide staff work and is critical to high - stakes decision making.

However, they too have found that such error rates persist to an extent that still prohibits high - stakes decision making.

Accuracy requires that students have multiple opportunities to pass any test when the test results are used to make high - stakes decision, such as promotion to the next grade or graduation from high school.

The charter renewal decision is one of the most significant high stakes decision in public education.

And she wants to lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

This is because, «[in] effect... states have been running in place» (p. 2) and not using teachers» primarily test - based indicators for high - stakes decision - making.

Do they impose on high stakes decision for children or teachers or schools?

It's a high - stakes decision either way

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

Instead, he was silent when the state's largest teachers union called for a three - year «moratorium» on using the Common Core for high - stakes decisions.

But it calls for a delay in using the test results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools.

They fly in supersonic, two - seat T - 38N jets to practice making high - speed, high - stakes decisions.

«It's not like we can avoid making high - stakes decisions about teachers,» [Professor Tom Kane] said.

DCPS was in the vanguard of these efforts, and was one of the first school districts in the country to link individual performance evaluations to high - stakes decisions about pay and retention when it launched IMPACT in the 2009 10 school year.

Last week, Gates Foundation education chief Vicki Phillips wrote a «letter to our partners» urging that states give students and teachers time to adjust to the new Common Core standards before using those standards as factors «in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition.»

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

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).

We need to keep in mind the rudimentary indicators used for high - stakes decisions today: teaching experience and educational attainment.

This camp claims that tests, as currently administered, are the only fair and «objective» measure of progress and should determine all or most high - stakes decisions.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

But as the early debate around the Every Student Succeeds Act illustrates, measures of character and non-cognitive skills don't appear ready for prime time, and they may never be appropriate for high - stakes decisions.

Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...

The reason is that authorizers use accountability plans to make high - stakes decisions — such as school corrective action, non-renewal, revocation, and closure — that directly impact the hundreds or thousands of families whose children are enrolled in charter schools.

In many cases, these systems inform high - stakes decisions such as which schools to close and which teachers to retain.

Societies where high - stakes decisions are made by the age of 13, or even 18, concentrate students» and parents» minds wonderfully at a time when Americans, with their anti-intellectual traditions, are often thinking a lot more about Friday night football, cheerleader camps, drugs, and safe sex.

Advocates argue that the use of VA measures in decisions regarding teacher selection, retraining, and dismissal will boost student achievement, while critics contend that the measures are a poor indicator of teacher quality and should play little if any role in high - stakes decisions.

The law decouples high - stakes decisions and statewide testing.

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.

He said the project did not study whether evaluations used for high - stakes decisions will cause teachers to cheat, change what they teach or take other actions that could skew the results.

These correlations are small to moderate, and certainly not «strong,» and definitely not «strong» enough to warrant high - stakes decisions (e.g., teacher termination) given everything (i.e., the unexplained variance) that is still not captured among these multiple measures... and that still threatens the validity of the inferences to be drawn from these measures combined.

Assessment professionals are clear that single test scores are not reliable or adequate measures of student progress and should not be used for high - stakes decisions.

The bottom line here, then, is that those in charge of making consequential decisions about teachers, as based even if in part on teachers» value - added estimates, need to be cautious when making particularly high - stakes decisions about teachers as based on said estimates.

While these are also noted as statistically significant, using the table below one can determine that statistical significance does not necessarily mean that such «very weak» to «weak» correlations are of much practical significance, especially if and when high - stakes decisions about teachers and their effects are to be attached to such evidence.

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.

Mathematica, a research group that published a 2010 study warning about the use of value - added modeling in high - stakes decisions because of high error rates, was paid more than $ 500,000 to design the value - added model for the Washington, D.C. public schools, according to a DCPS spokesman.