Sentences with phrase «stakes for students»

Recognizing the high stakes for their students, successful teachers assume personal responsibility for dramatic student learning, even when it means going far beyond traditional expectations.

There's a lot more at stake for students than simply being able to talk or be represented somewhere.

Low stakes for students, high stakes for the teacher.

Schools do administer a sampling survey of math and literacy, and there is a series of high - school - exit / college - entrance exams that are high stakes for students.

We know that there is more at stake for our students than their academic performance alone and we understand our responsibility in recognizing and supporting the whole child.

Children were being «asked to answer questions that had little bearing on their reading ability and yet had huge stakes for students, teachers, principals and schools.»

And non-elite students may disproportionately benefit from smart student - accountability policies, such as EOCs combined with real stakes for the students.

Clarification: New York's designation on the map of stakes for student graduation has been changed to reflect nuances in its testing policy.

We were protesting the fact that we had just witnessed children being asked to answer questions that had little bearing on their reading ability and yet had huge stakes for students, teachers, principals and schools.

He needs to refocus the debate on what's at stake for students.

At the national level sample - based student assessments similar to the National Assessment of Educational Progress that have no stakes for students, teachers, or schools are the main means to inform policy - makers and the public on how Finland's school system is performing.

At the national level sample - based student assessments similar to the National Assessment of Educational Progress that have no stakes for students, teachers, or schools are the main means to inform policy - makers and the public on how Finland's...

This more - nuanced form of signaling also increases the stakes for students, since it gives college admissions officers and potential employers additional information with which to evaluate candidates — an especially important factor in an era of grade inflation.

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.

Students» grades are based primarily on teacher - designed or local tests, so the stakes for students are unclear.

Indeed, a vigorous critique of the effects of large - scale assessment has developed as the tests in question have become increasingly high - stakes for students, teachers, and administrators.233 On the other hand, in a comparison of high - and low - accountability states, Carnoy and Loeb (2002) found significantly greater achievement in eighth - grade mathematics for students in high - accountability states, with no difference in retention or high school completion rates.

«Of course, whether or not students learn should be part of a teacher's and administrator's evaluation, but when you have high stakes for students, teachers and administrators and little or no accountability for the $ 254 million contract lawmakers have given to the testing company, something is wrong.

«People shouldn't worry too much about it if the adjustments are minor and applied consistently - although now the stakes for both students and schools are so high, it's hard not to worry.

«I'm just not a fan of a test where there are no stakes for the students, and high stakes for teachers.

It aims to roll back the number of standardized tests kids take and eliminate the high stakes for students and teachers alike.