Sentences with phrase «stakes testing cause»

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As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

Efforts to use high - stakes tests to regulate school quality at a higher level, however, did not benefit students and may have led schools to adopt strategies that caused long - term harm.

We believe that high - stakes testing — and the resulting retentions — will cause the dropout problem to increase by 50 percent in the next five years.

Statewide content standards are beginning to spawn high - stakes tests that have evoked furious opposition — not without cause.

The idea of financial incentives is based on logic that economists find eminently sensible — workers work harder when money is at stake, so giving teachers higher pay for higher test scores should cause test scores to go up.

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

The imposition of high - stakes testing is actually causing teachers and would - be teachers to leave the profession in droves or engage in criminal activity.

Friday's New York Times gives FairTest the lead reaction quote in a story about how high - stakes testing pressures cause some educators to cheat on standardized tests.

School privatization intensifies segregation, high - stakes testing creates cause for closing struggling schools instead of helping students.

In other words, although high stakes may cause test scores to rise on a particular assessment, those scores may not reflect true gains in student learning.

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

This factor alone will cause the pressures of high stakes testing to go through the roof.

In Pencils Down we take the high - stakes tests to task, deconstruct the damage they cause to our education system, highlight their inaccuracy as tools of measurement, and offer visionary forms of assessment that are more authentic, democratic, fair, and accurate.

Though many of the corporate - style reformers argue that their preferred priorities of more high - stakes testing, the elimination of teacher tenure, and expansion of charter schools will narrow the achievement gap, there is no evidence to indicate that these policies will work, and in fact, recent evidence suggests that such policies will further cause high - quality teachers to flee from our neediest schools.

But the current No Child left behind negotiations seem to align with the federal government's view that high - stakes tests do not cause or encourage cheating.

Riding what they see as a wave of anti-testing sentiment among parents, opponents of high - stakes assessments believe a strategy known as opt - out — having parents refuse to let their children take state - mandated tests — could force policymakers to take note of their cause.