Sentences with phrase «stakes testing systems»

Training our students, our future, in the fine art of passing FCAT (arguably one of the highest stakes testing systems in this nation) while neglecting the finer points of abstract thinking and problem solving.

Some high schools will adopt their own high - stakes testing systems to measure and reward productivity.

If standardized testing is too caught up with traditional modes of judgment that make no sense to assess the present day student, then one has to hope that the high stakes testing system will innovate sometime soon.

But our results are consistent between the FCAT and the Stanford - 9, indicating that there have been no serious manipulations of the high - stakes testing system.

If schools facing voucher competition were only appearing to improve by somehow manipulating Florida's high - stakes testing system, we would not have seen a corresponding improvement on another test that no one had incentives to manipulate.

The TDOE continues to move the goal posts of a high stakes testing system that remains off limits for public scrutiny.

Not exact matches

The ethereum network's transition to proof - of - stake is getting closer to reality, beginning with a hybrid system that could soon begin testing.

In our current high stakes system where every test or assignment seems to be a critical step on the pathway to adult success, students frequently feel that they have no room for error.

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

Hawkins supports fully funding public schools and opposes Cuomo's push for high stakes testing, charter schools, and centralized control of the education system.

He pushed several changes in the state budget that eased stakes associated with Common Core - aligned tests for students, and he signaled he would amend his signature teacher - evaluation system to shield teachers from the exams, too, at least temporarily.

«But we remain deeply concerned about the continued outsize role of high - stakes testing in our school system.»

«She has a deep knowledge of schools and our system, and is on record criticizing Mayor Bloomberg's focus on high - stakes testing.

Any stakes associated with testing policies should be shouldered not only by students and educators, but also by policymakers who have control over the educational systems in which teaching and learning occur.

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.

But support for standards and accountability systems should not be equated with support for high - stakes tests.

The most difficult part is being a small cog in a system bent on classroom and curriculum control because of high - stakes testing.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

But nationally, there's a strong split between those who see their actions as an aberration and those who would convict right alongside them the accountability systems that have attached increasingly high stakes to standardized tests in recent decades.

When the MEAP high - school exam was a no - stakes test, students had no reason to try their best on the primary indicator of performance in the state's high - school accountability system.

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

He is currently directing studies that will explore new methods for evaluating gains in scores on high - stakes tests and evaluate the use of value - added models in educational accountability systems.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

On the firing line is the nation's largest high - stakes examination system for high school students — a reading, writing, and mathematics test that annually determines how many...

The Chinese national educational system has won high praise as an efficient system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.

If one wants to assess the effect of high - stakes testing, the obvious comparison is between states that adopted accountability systems and those that did not.

«The Accountability Plateau,» by Mark Schneider, just published by Education Next and the Fordham Institute, makes a big point: that «consequential accountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middle school math.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

With the emphasis on high - stakes testing, we have learned a great deal about who is succeeding and failing, and which schools and school systems are meeting targeted performance standards.

Nineteen of the 50 new teachers — or 38 percent — had the added pressure of teaching subjects and grade levels where the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the state's high - stakes test, was administered.

And only if that system holds all teachers responsible for results (as opposed to only those administering high - stakes testing in four of the twelve years of schooling) can it improve.

That's because its decision to condition ESEA flexibility on state adoption of teacher evaluation systems has not only raised the stakes of reading and math tests (making them less popular and potentially more damaging to the educational enterprise).

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

But there seems to be little evidence that this has happened and a huge body of evidence that high - stakes tests of all kinds focus school systems on teaching and learning.

And only if the assessment system holds all teachers responsible for results can the system improve (as opposed to high - stakes testing in four of the twelve years of schooling).

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.

The challenge for educators and policymakers will be to develop a system that captures the obvious benefits of high - stakes testing as a means of providing incentives while minimizing the possible distortions that these measures induce.

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

Based on my observations, the lives of the high school students I teach are hemmed in everywhere by social pressures and expectations: high - stakes testing, the looming shadow of college admissions, the fiercely competitive school system, the painful process of figuring out who you are, and the ubiquitous desire for peer acceptance.

Despite continued support in the Republican - dominated State Legislature for high - stakes testing, there are signs that Florida is headed for a showdown with opponents of an education system that many say is undermining its original mission: to improve student learning, help teachers and inform parents.

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.

These tests have high stakes not only for those tested but also for students, families, and school systems.

They measured each state's use of high - stakes testing to reward or sanction schools, and developed a zero - to - five scale to rank each state's system.

While Dede urges the edtech and education worlds alike to consider the impact of high - stakes testing and the process of rolling out such exams, he also recognizes its symbolism in moving the education system forward.

They are anxious about any return to the high stakes testing aspects of the old system.

He was lead author on a study of the implications of behavioral science research for accountability in schools, describing the ways that accountability can be broadened beyond high - stakes testing to incorporate professional accountability systems that simultaneously incentivize and support improvement in teaching.

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.

States that are reluctant to implement a high - stakes high school graduation test might want to look at the old Regents end - of - course exam system as a possible model for a moderate - stakes student accountability system.

Since 1999 the CCSR has published several studies of Chicago's attempt to end social promotion that help to provide an extensive, empirical, and longitudinal look at the impact of the high - stakes testing policies on the Chicago school system.