Sentences with phrase «stakes testing era»

And finally, we are left with the greatest crime committed against the professional practice of education as a result of the corrosive effect of the high stakes testing era.

The high stakes testing era has changed a lot of the perception of standardized testing.

Not exact matches

Maybe the 2012 Alabama game has come close since, but given the stakes and the magical season that LSU would propel itself through to the BCS national title, it stands the test of time as the single greatest game of the Les Miles Era at LSU.

NASA is rebooting its Mars landings, thanks to a smart idea from the cold war era, and high - stakes rocket tests in the desert.

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.»

But as DCPS learned early in the Rhee era, when it entrusted schools to administer high stakes tests to their own students, incentive systems need strong oversight.

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.

Test - based accountability proponents can point to research by Raj Chetty and colleagues that shows a connection between improvements in test scores and improved outcomes in adulthood, but their work examines testing from the 1980s, prior to the high - stakes era, and therefore does not capture how the threat of consequences might distort the relationship between test - score changes and later life outcoTest - based accountability proponents can point to research by Raj Chetty and colleagues that shows a connection between improvements in test scores and improved outcomes in adulthood, but their work examines testing from the 1980s, prior to the high - stakes era, and therefore does not capture how the threat of consequences might distort the relationship between test - score changes and later life outcotest scores and improved outcomes in adulthood, but their work examines testing from the 1980s, prior to the high - stakes era, and therefore does not capture how the threat of consequences might distort the relationship between test - score changes and later life outcotest - score changes and later life outcomes.

In this era of No Child Left Behind, the elephant in the room is high - stakes testing, which holds educators and students accountable for test scores.

In this era of high - stakes testing, be wary of score inflation; improvements in scores, particularly very large and rapid ones, may be illusory.

This, too, is not surprising in an era of high - stakes testing under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Teachers recognize test preparation as necessary in this era of high stakes standardized exams, but most can't afford to spend much precious class time on test preparation activities.

Consider this: In 1977, 25 years before No Child Left Behind ushered in the era of high - stakes testing, elementary school teachers spent only about 50 minutes a day on science and social studies combined.

Martha Derthick (University of Virginia), John Dinan (Wake Forest University), and Michael Heise (Cornell Law School) discuss litigation over high - stakes testing and school finance in the era of No Child Left Behind.

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr. Robert Dillon attempts to bring the student back into the center of the learning.

And, as I've said before, there is plenty of room to hold Obama accountable for «Race to the Top,» which follows on the same path as No Child Left Behind's era of high - stakes standardized tests.

The era of high - stakes testing ended with the passage of the Every Student Achieves Act (ESSA).

In this era of increasing accountability and high - stakes testing in schools, a serious paradox has surfaced.

Nevertheless, access to effective writing instruction is especially important in an era when high - stakes tests depend greatly on writing skill.

After more than a decade of test - driven, high - stakes accountability in the No Child Left Behind era, many educators and policymakers in the United States are looking to move toward a more thoughtful approach.

In this era of high - stakes testing and high drop - out rates, public schools are focusing heavily on reading, writing and arithmetic.

The overtesting era is still strong, but hope arises for opponents of high stakes testing.

NCLB brought an unforgiving and continuing era of high stakes testing infused with constantly moving, often unattainable «goals.»

If we let current policies answer this question for us, we're back to test scores; after all, nothing else matters in an era of high - stakes accountability.

The reality that nobody at NYSED appears willing to examine is that parents understand that there are very real and actually tangible costs to making standardized testing as high stakes as it has become in the No Child Left Behind era, and, worse, they are increasingly aware that those policies do not work and should be set aside.

The US has been through a disastrous era focused on high - stakes testing and privatization since the passage of NCLB in 2001.

But urban superintendents are hard to come by in an era of high - stakes testing and widening achievement gaps.

«Just the facts, Ma'am»: Teaching social studies in the era of standards and high - stakes testing.

In an era of high stakes testing, the stakes will never be higher than they will be with the Common Core.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

In the era of high - stakes testing, formative assessment has given way to an over-reliance on summative assessments and too often resulted in misuse of assessment results.

For all its good intentions, NCLB will be remembered for ushering in an unprecedented era of high - stakes testing — and for saddling public education with a federal mandate on school accountability that had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Yet, we march on in the high stakes test - based accountability era with the high probability that posterity will ask an indicting question of how a generation of educators could commit such offenses when they knew better.

History will tell the story about the future of the high stakes test - based accountability era and its unintended consequences.

Newly designed schools have the advantage of considering the challenges established schools may face when it comes to educating students in the era of accountability, high stakes academic testing, and college and career preparation.

Watch an archived video of education experts debating global education policies and practices, including ASCD CEO and Executive Director Dr. Gene R. Carter, who explained why he supports rigorous standards in schools, how educators can maintain their positions as leaders during the era of high - stakes testing, and the importance of whole child education.

Current research on TA has thrived in an era of high stakes testing where approximately 25 % - 40 % of students consistently experience TA.

It's also true that nobody believes social and emotional learning measurement should be employed for over-the-top, high stakes and punitive assessment systems that we saw academic achievement testing used for in the extremes of the No Child Left Behind era.