Sentences with phrase «stakes tests generally»

High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

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Adding digital technology is generally disruptive to what schools and teachers do, and the pressure of high - stakes testing only exacerbates this problem.

Rather, it is states which have historically tested least and are less likely to attach high - stakes to their tests that generally score highest on NAEP [see Neill, Civil Rights], have lower dropout rates [Clark], and send more students on to college [see article on evaluation of state college systems, Education Week 1/6/00].

When critics warn of the danger that teachers will «teach to the test,» proponents of high - stakes will generally reply that, well, if the test is designed to assess whether students have mastered important skills and bodies of knowledge, that's not obviously a bad thing.

Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.

She wrote that «since teachers face pressure to improve scores and since poverty - stricken students generally underperform on high - stakes tests, schools serving low - income students are more likely to implement a style of teaching based on drilling and memorization that leads to little learning.»