Sentences with phrase «stakes individual test»

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To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

In this era of high - stakes testing, Perkins cites a school that has emphasized diagnostic testing as a tool for individual students to understand their progress and to determine what to focus on next.

From the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 to its more inclusive follow - up in 1997; from the cry for attention from those lobbying for gifted students to calls for greater sensitivity to the learning styles of all student populations; from the initial proficiency tests of the early»90s to their high - stakes, pass - fail descendants; from the rise of bilingual education in some parts of the country to its demise in other regionspublic education has been a veritable vessel of change.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

If attaching stakes to individual teachers is a bad idea and leads to the testing tail wagging the school dog, it's hard to see what will change four years from now.

But it's long past time to acknowledge that reading tests — especially tests with stakes for individual teachers attached to them — do more harm than good.

Each separate use of a high - stakes test for individual achievement, school evaluation, curriculum improvement or any other purpose must be evaluated in order to determine the strengths and limitations of the testing program and the test itself.

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And most importantly, students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) will be using Read & Write for high - stakes testing when Kentucky goes online with our state accountability test!»

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In a video released on the network's website, Ravitch says families should opt out of state - mandated high - stakes testing in part because the scores provide «no useful information» about the abilities of individual students and are unfairly used to evaluate educators.

Achieve3000 differentiates lessons at 12 levels of English and 8 levels of Spanish to ensure all learners engage at their individual reading levels, accelerating reading gains, boosting mastery of state and Common Core Standards and performance on high - stakes tests, and preparing them for college and career — and beyond.

Some work in more affluent school districts and have greater autonomy to create individual programs, yet still are accountable for students» learning and their performance on high - stakes achievement tests.

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.

Best thing to do is to embrace Steiner Education and actually focus on the individual child without high stakes testing.

This type of language, which often uses terms like grit, persistence, perseverance, and sacrifice, is perhaps as damaging as our high stakes testing climate to the education community in that it glorifies the talents and commitment of the individual above all else.