Sentences with phrase «stakes test introduced»

The frameworks and high - stakes test introduced pressure without proven pedagogy and a mandate without materials.

«The frameworks and high - stakes test introduced pressure without support and a mandate without materials,» says David Kauffman, first author on the study.

Not exact matches

Six months after he was introduced to Richt's complex pro-style offense, the boy who'd lost his breakfast before big - stakes high school games faced his first road test, in October 2001 in front of a crowd of 107,592 at Tennessee, where the Bulldogs hadn't won since 1980.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two - year moratorium on attaching high - stakes consequences to the New York state tests for teachers and students.

In an era where high - stakes tests have increased concern over test anxiety and introduced debate over the merits of teaching to the test, it may seem odd to promote a teaching method called «test - enhanced learning.»

The other five «decreasing» states all experienced greater gains than no - accountability states during the time that they introduced high - stakes testing; New York even beat the national average gain in every time period.

In fact, ignoring any complications from test exclusions, Amrein and Berliner would report this as something like, «Just 23 percent of states posted gains on NAEP higher than the national average after high stakes were introduced.»

If CSR is introduced in the current policy context of high - stakes testing, together with the inadequate funding highlighted by the Gonski Review, we can expect minimal achievement outcomes.

Further, little is being done to ensure that the tests being devised for the new Common Core State Standards do not introduce a break in the continuous stream of accountability information essential for the evaluation of school and teacher performance (see this issue's forum, «Examining High - Stakes Testing»).

However, not everyone is happy with the higher weighting for the external test in some subjects, with a spokesperson for the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU), Sam Pidgeon labelling the change as introducing «high - stakes assessment».

Mr. Bush, a possible presidential contender, was one of the first governors to introduce high - stakes testing and an A-to-F grading system for schools.

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

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.

Bush introduced high - stakes standardized tests, school grading and statewide private school voucher programs during his two terms as governor.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

They effectively get rid of high - stakes tests for assessments, instead introducing «just - in - time» assessments in each skill and knowledge area.

I therefore will introduce an emergency bill in the Washington state legislature next week that would provide more flexible alternatives to high school graduation if a student fails a high stakes test.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

We have introduced a bill to eliminate ALL high stakes tests and restore multiple fair pathways to graduation in Washington state.