Sentences with phrase «stakes exam for»

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

When Texas legislators passed a law in 2013 that sharply reduced standardized testing for public high school students, they included a provision aimed at easing the pressure of high - stakes exams for students in lower grades as well.

Not exact matches

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

She echoed the union's concerted push for more school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.

ALBANY — Three powerful teachers» unions joined forces Friday to lobby for legislation that would create a moratorium on attaching «high stakes» to student scores on new state exams.

Unions and advocacy groups have pushed legislation that would cut down on testing or dilute the state's reform agenda by enacting a three - year moratorium on using scores from Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes.»

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

Written like a press release from New York State United Teachers, the bill pushes for a three - year moratorium on using student scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions — principally, teacher evaluations.

He pushed several changes in the state budget that eased stakes associated with Common Core - aligned tests for students, and he signaled he would amend his signature teacher - evaluation system to shield teachers from the exams, too, at least temporarily.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

Whatever bumpy ride this technological journey takes, experts insist that online assessments — for both high - stakes tests and classroom exams — are the undeniable wave of the future.

In fact, when it's time for a high - stakes assignment — like a major paper on a novel or the essay on an exam — students feel prepared.

The main advantage to using NAEP data for our analysis is that it is a low - stakes exam that is not directly tied to any state's standards or assessments.

Charter School for Science and Technology until Louisiana's high - pressure, high - stakes exams would start.

Carol Yu Education Policy and Management Current City: New York / Boston Current job: Global academic director, Bridge International Academies Career highlight: Seeing our first cohort of graduates in Kenya excel on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam (KCPE), a high - stakes national exit examination for primary students.

Our primary outcome is student performance on the mandatory, high - stakes final exam for the course.

Texas was studied in the issue paper because the state exemplifies a national trend toward using statewide exams as a basis for high - stakes educational decisions.

According to a 2011 report of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), 9 of 10 countries that score highest on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) use high - stakes «gateway» exams to mark transitions, including the one from high school to college or career.

Some states have made passing the exams a condition for graduation, essentially turning them into exit exams, but others have increased the stakes for students instead by printing the EOC scores on student transcripts or factoring the scores into course grades.

Online assessments — for high - stakes tests and classroom exams — are the undeniable wave of the future and a key tool for customizing instruction, experts say.

This creates several kinds of mischief in schools trying their best to prepare students for high - stakes exams.

According to a recent report published by Sir John Holman, president of the Royal Society for Chemistry, high - stake exams are preventing schools from carrying out enough practical science activities.

SARAS offers technology solutions for learning and training to the demands of various sectors such as K - 12, Higher Education, Educational Publishers, Corporate Learning, Test and Assessment (High Stake Exams), Mobile Learning Applications.

Prepares students for high - stakes exams through the use of dynamic, online literacy activities

In particular, the 11th - grade tests are not required for graduation and competed with other high - stakes tests that juniors take, including the ACT and SAT college - entrance exams, and Advanced Placement tests.

Schools nationwide are getting results with Apex Learning digital curriculum: higher graduation rates, lower dropout rates, improved scores on high - stakes exams, and more students ready for postsecondary success.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

And high - stakes testing was introduced long before the Common Core — and is stressful for some kids regardless of what the exams cover.

The current overhaul of California's student testing program is skipping, for now, the California High School Exit Exam, the one test that's truly high stakes.

High - stakes, summative tests that assess content mastery and learning skills (BASIS Curriculum Schools Comprehensive Exams and the College Board Advanced Placement Exams for example) are foundational for learning.

States that are reluctant to implement a high - stakes high school graduation test might want to look at the old Regents end - of - course exam system as a possible model for a moderate - stakes student accountability system.

Before 1996 the IGAP was arguably the higher - stakes exam, even though there were no direct consequences for students or schools tied to the IGAP, since results from it appeared annually in local newspapers.

The greatest impact was for low - achieving students, largely because the overwhelming majority of higher - achieving students had completed the exam before the onset of high - stakes testing.

Today if you don't recognize Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction by name, you're probably familiar with his policies — high stakes reading exams for third graders, merit pay for teachers, A-F grading for schools.

In June, both the NEA and AFT endorsed a two - year moratorium pushed by the Gates Foundation, proposing a delay in high - stakes consequences tied to Common Core exams for students and teachers.

It is time for an indefinite moratorium on high - stakes exams.»

New York's Regents examinations served this purpose for over 100 years and states such as Florida, Alabama, Nevada, and Virginia had instituted high - stakes graduation exams at least as far back as the early to mid 1980s.

The report examined the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressed the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

The Coalition Urges New York State to Convene a Commission to Re-Examine High School Graduation Requirements In November 2017, the Coalition wrote to Chancellor Rosa and Commissioner Elia supporting a proposal to establish a commission to re-examine New York State's graduation requirements and made several recommendations [PDF] for the commission to consider as alternatives to high - stakes exit exams.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards On December 12, 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

And all this work has to happen in 50 minute class periods while teaching an enormous curriculum and being held accountable for student performance on a high stakes, knowledge driven end of grade exam.

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Most articles illustrate the trials and tribulations of practitioners» and scholars» attempts, highlighting a host of reasons for their exclusion: established school cultures that misunderstand the purpose and process of youth - adult leadership practices, relentless focus on achieving student outcomes measured almost singularly by high - stakes literacy and numeracy exams, and budgets and school schedules that defund and devalue youth leadership activity.

The American Federation of Teachers has been a bit more nuanced; it supports the standards, but President Randi Weingarten has called for a moratorium on high - stakes testing while the Common Core exams are phased in.

It is a high - stakes exam that requires teachers to plan for engaging students and reflect on practice, and it focuses on intentionality of that plan.

- For details on the flaws of the new Common Core exams, an overview of last year's protests against high - stakes testing, and other background information, see http://www.fairtest.org.

Indiana's new reading exam for third graders underscores how high the stakes on statewide exams can get.

Ensure that ELL and dyslexic students receive all appropriate accommodations on high - stakes testing, including STAAR and Common Assessments, and applying for accommodations for dyslexic students taking College Board exams;

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.»

As a tenth grade English teacher in Maryland, the year our students take their high stakes English exam required for graduation, I can tell you that Ms. Elden is right on the money!