Sentences with phrase «stakes testing environment»

However, there are several factors that might encourage schools to actively exclude students with disabilities, including fiscal pressures and the stress of a high - stakes testing environment.

With recent changes towards a high - stakes testing environment and an increase in curriculum content it is vital for teachers to ensure pupils demonstrate good resilience and recall under examination conditions.

Fairfax's PoG looks beyond the high - stakes testing environment and helps students develop skills so they can be successful in the workforce of the future.

Given the high stakes testing environment and shrinking budgets of schools today, educators are under more stress than ever.

Many argue that poor students, immigrants, or students with disabilities will suffer under high - stakes testing environments (McNeil, 2000; Meier, 2002; Reyes and Rorrer, 2001; Stecher and Hamilton, 2002).

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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.

Teaching a core tested subject like middle school math in the challenging environment of urban public schools is a high - stakes game.

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

He said, «In the present environment of high stakes testing, budgetary challenges, increased demands on educators and competition for students attention, everyone in the school benefits when humor is part of the pedagogy.

SAAS is also examining the unintended consequences of high stakes testing for students with disabilities in areas such as placement in the least restrictive environment, graduation rates and discipline.

Opt Out Orlando rejects high stakes testing as meaningless and detrimental to the development of a creative, nurturing and supportive learning environment.»

Given the stakes attached to testing, the less proven the idea, the more we need to try it in a low - risk environment.

Dr. Samuel Meisels, director of the University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute, agrees that a school culture focused on high - stakes tests is exactly the type of environment that we should avoid for children who experience toxic stress.

There's been such a focus on high stakes testing that there hasn't been enough attention to the social emotional learning and the safe supportive environment that students need in order to thrive.

The Fellows are now testing their own pilot projects in the lower - stakes environment of summer school.

Since little has been done concurrent with high stakes accountability to actually support and improve schools with resources and innovative services, the result has been a policy environment where the tests have consumed more and more of the curriculum.

Though high - stakes testing may seem to support this same approach («Do anything to do well on this test»), in fact, it seems that teachers are examining the ways in which their classroom environments and strategies contribute to performance.

ReadyTest A-Z delivers the resources teachers need to pride effective high - stakes assessment, practice, and instruction, and a student - centric environment where kids log in to develop their test - taking skills online.

This teacher asked that her name and school be omitted from this report because of the hostile environment that the Seattle School district has created in issuing threats to teachers who oppose high - stakes testing.

The ill effects of high - stakes testing - like narrowing learning environments to focus solely on reading, writing, and math, as well as the test - induced increase of high school dropouts — have had a disproportionately negative impact on low - income students and students of color.

While some states, districts, and schools implemented problematic test preparation practices as a result of high - stakes accountability environments, those «drill and kill» multiple choice worksheets do not need to be the only strategy for enhancing student achievement.

PSI Public Safety and Civil Service Tests are widely used because they assess and highlight candidates who demonstrate superior ability to perform in an intense, high - stakes environment.