Sentences with phrase «stakes tests drive»

Downshifting: Teaching (for Understanding) in a Lower Gear An expanding curriculum and high - stakes testing drives many teachers to just «cover the curriculum.»

Voice of Experience: Downshifting: Teaching (for Understanding) in a Lower Gear An expanding curriculum and high - stakes testing drives many teachers to just «cover the curriculum.»

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They shouldn't be driven by high - stakes testing or be box - fillers for college applications.

A good start would be to get rid of high - stakes multiple - choice barrier tests which drive instruction toward low level teaching to the test.

New Book from The Civil Rights Project Highlights the Limits of Test - Driven Reforms A new book from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University finds that the current overreliance on high - stakes testing threatens to deepen America's educational inequities.

Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their blended - learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to scale across a school or district.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high - stakes standardized tests.

Where instead of high - stakes tests, students benefit from continuous and seamless assessments that transparently drive moment - by - moment adaptations.

Other parents view opting out as a form of outsider protest; they support public education, but believe that high - stakes standardized tests have become the tail that wags the dog, driving far too much of what occurs in their children's classrooms.

Data - driven decision - making within a professional learning community: Assessing the predictive qualities of curriculum - based measurements to a high - stakes, state test of reading achievement at the elementary level.

Aspiring and new teachers often have a desire to engage students in issues of social justice but find themselves overwhelmed when presented with scripted curriculum, high stakes test prep, and mentors without the drive or experience of doing it themselves.

Even in an education system driven by the Common Core State Standards and high - stakes testing, teachers must adapt their methods to the styles of the modern learner.

Data has become a loaded term in our high - stakes and test - driven world, but don't let the buzzwords skew the value of good information.

These are high - stakes tests, and while they are necessary, they do not drive my teaching.

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.

According to organizers, the rally is being called «Win Back Wednesday» because public education must be «won back» from the profit - driven entities behind high - stakes testing and school privatization schemes and returned to actual stakeholders: parents, students, and educators.

High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, Common Core etc. have never been about educational processes they are political processes driven by business interests.

In today's climate of high stakes testing, business leaders and politicians continue to demand better results with data driven assessments and test scores.

Many feel that the high - stakes nature of testing at the state level drives a large quantity of tests at other levels, and leads to a disproportionately large amount of instructional time being devoted to test prep.

He seems to think that lowering expectations will be more «relevant» to our students, and he uses popular mythology in attempting to make his case, such as «high stakes accountability drives dropouts» and «teaching to the test is taking away from learning», neither of which has any foundation.

The theory relies on parental and public demand for better «outcomes» as driven by high - stakes standardized testing.

Unfortunately, any attempt to drive education improvement with high - stakes testing and accountability may have a fundamental flaw.

• An expansion of high - stakes testing that turns schools into testing factories and drives families and top teachers away from public education.

In light of the uneven track record of previous test - driven reforms, wary educators might reasonably ask, Will better high - stakes assessments really change anything?

One need to go no farther than a short drive down the turnpike to civil rights expert, Dr. Yohuru Williams of Fairfield University, who has demonstrated with thunderous authority, through the actual words and sayings of Dr. Martin Luther King, that the leader of the U.S. civil rights movement would have never stood beside those who seek to privatize and monetize public education, nor would he have supported the high stakes testing obsession that has crippled the promise of public education, dehumanized children, and driven countless educators out of the profession.

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

Author, speaker & outspoken advocate against the current Standards movement, particularly as driven by high - stakes, fill - in - the - blank tests.

And as Kevin Welner and William Mathis of University of Colorado at Boulder remind us in this policy memo, what we need is «sustained, fair, adequate and equitable investment in all our children sufficient to provide them their educational birthright...» That will not happen while high stakes testing is driving our education system.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high stakes standardized tests.

Proponents of high - stakes testing have argued further that it is students who have done least well in schools who will most benefit from test - driven change.

The culture of high - stakes testing that currently drives educational policy would make implementing CRP nation - wide challenging.

Ever wondered how tough a driving test would be if your phone was at stake along with your life?

With Michigan going all - in on autonomous car testing, GM will be doing a lot more with the Bolt, including trials for self - driving tech and loans to Lyft, which the automaker bought a stake in last year.