Sentences with phrase «stakes student promotion»

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As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

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.»

Conduct research on the consequences, both intended and unintended, on high - stakes testing and its impact on the promotion, retention, and evaluation of students, teachers, principals, schools, and school districts.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

Also, the state's social promotion policy raises the stakes for students in grades 4 and 8.

The stakes attached to them now commonly include school funding and evaluation and closure, teacher pay and evaluation and firings, and of course student promotion and self - perception.

We have been especially aggressive fighting against the misuse and overuse of high - stakes standardized tests and CPS's harmful, ineffective, wasteful elementary student promotion policy.

A rethinking of promotion and enrollment policies so that high - stakes decisions for students are made using multiple measures and not a single test score.

As you noted, high stakes testing — using tests for student promotion, teacher evolution, and even school closure — has certainly increased the controversy surrounding the Common Core.

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.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.

High - stakes tests are used to make important decisions such as student promotion or graduation, granting teacher tenure, or sanctioning schools for poor performance.

So we join the Gates Foundation in calling on state policymakers to consider that assessment results should not be taken into account in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition here in Tennessee.

Often these tests are referred to as «high stakes,» although some states have a mechanism for graduation or promotion that avoids retention consequences when the student has otherwise earned graduation or promotion.

No single measure should be used to make high - stakes decisions, including promotion or graduation, involving any student.

Standardized testing has come under increasing scrutiny across the nation, particularly in its use for high - stakes decisions such as student promotion, in teacher evaluations, and for other school personnel decisions.