Sentences with phrase «standardized test data»

I have a particular view of how data should be used, particularly standardized test data.

For years, districts nationwide have monitored standardized test data and other measures, reporting it to the state and watching trends across schools.

The first step is identifying students who would be good candidates for acceleration, typically by reviewing standardized test data.

They decided to take a new, in - depth look at nationwide standardized test data.

Among their objections: the requirement of a statewide teacher evaluation system that includes the use of standardized test data.

The current list is based on standardized testing data from the era of No Child Left Behind, a federal law that graded schools heavily on math and reading scores.

That said, here are some suggestions for using standardized test data:

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Use the Data to Decide Student Grouping and Differentiation: Standardized test data reveals how your students performed: advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic.

The new standardized test data show that in each of the five states examined in this report about 90 % of the ELL students who took the state assessment test were educated in public schools that had at least a minimum threshold number of ELL students.

The organizations with which Betsy DeVos has been involved view standardized testing data as an essential tool needed for accountability.

Yet, district and even school initiatives to conduct inquiry often prescribe use of local or state standardized test data (Marsh, Pane, & Hamilton, 2006; Young, 2006).

These three men, with their impatience, their obsession with standardized testing data, and their general disdain for anything that doesn't match their priorities have inflicted great damage on American public education, wielding influence far beyond their wisdom.

If a school enrolls more than 25 voucher students, then that school must report to the SEAA the aggregate standardized test data;

Common Core Standards were written, without input from educators at the K - 12 or college level, by employees of testing companies and companies that analyze standardized test data.

Although the Gates Foundation money is a tiny portion of the Hartford School System's total budget, by accepting the grant, the Hartford Board is committed to instituting more standardized testing (the NWEA MAP test), supporting the expansion of more charter slots (a gift for Jumoke and Achievement First) and attaching teacher evaluation results (From the Danielson / Teachscape programs) to the NWEA MAP and other standardized test data.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

(The group has also filed a case challenging 13 California districts» teachers contracts that prohibit the use of standardized test data in teacher evaluations, which they say violates a 1971 law.)

It still uses standardized test data to evaluate teacher performance, which will lead to more «teaching to the test.»

Previous Pew Hispanic Center analyses of standardized testing data for public schools revealed a large achievement gap between ELL students and other students in math and reading proficiency (Fry, How Far Behind in Math and Reading are English Language Learners?

Data related to student learning (for example, classroom - based assessments, standardized test data, teacher observations)

Yes, that standardized testing data can be useful; however, we teachers spend the entire year collecting all sorts of immediate and valuable information about students that informs and influences how we teach, as well as where and what we review, readjust, and reteach.

Doe v. Antioch, filed in Contra Costa Superior Court, challenges the collective bargaining agreements of thirteen school districts and their local teachers unions that explicitly prohibit the use of students» standardized test data in the evaluation of teachers, in direct violation of the Stull Act.

End the use of standardized testing data to evaluate students and educators and to close schools.

Ravitch opposes the use of standardized test data to fire teachers or close schools.

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

In August, the Los Angeles Times was the subject of intense criticism and praise for its series that included value - added scores for individual teachers based on years of standardized test data — a project that newspapers in New York City now want to replicate.

It's a different environment in North Carolina, where after the first year of operation, Republican lawmakers leading the N.C. General Assembly moved to relax regulations this year, despite criticism that they were moving too soon to shed restrictions for the programs without any standardized testing data available.

In the wake of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), schools are swimming (sometimes drowning) in standardized test data.

Under current law, standardized test data can be one of several factors used to evaluate a teacher's performance, but it can't be used to discipline them.

For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

She stoutly defends teachers unions, questions the value of standardized test data and calls the president's affinity for independently operated charter schools «puzzling.»

Connecticut received a waiver from the Federal Department of Education requirement that standardized testing data be used in evaluations during the 2015 - 16 school year.

Selection is made on the basis of principal and teacher recommendations, application essay, and standardized test data.

LAMB initiates a Student Support Team (SST) Plan when classroom observations, student work samples, standardized test data, behavioral data, and / or a parent request indicates that a student needs additional intervention and support in order to reach his or her highest potential.

This report will also include a summary of standardized test data, attendance information and samples of classroom performance.

But for McVicker, she said her school has increased proficiency in every tested content area for the last three years, according to standardized testing data.

Dr. Bruce Baker of Rutgers University argues cogently that if the purpose is to use standardized test data to monitor schools and school systems, you do not need to test every child every year at all; that can be accomplished by testing samples of students every couple of years.