Sentences with phrase «standardized tests because»

The zealots favor standardized tests because the tests generate numbers — «hard data» — that can be used to assess «performance» and «competitiveness.»

FairTest goes on to explain that schools are moving away from the use of standardized tests because academic studies have consistently shown that «Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit» and are not appropriate or correct indicators of how students will actually do in college.

What the CT SDE and charter school lobbyists are not explicitly telling you in these claims is that charter schools often serve a relatively more advantaged group of Black and Latinx children compared to the local public schools where they are located and these children are likely to do relatively better on standardized tests because standardized tests favor more advantaged groups of people.

I thought of... Continue reading Paging Ernestine: Long Island Opt - Outers Don't Care About Standardized Tests Because They Don't Have To.

The fact is that we use standardized tests because they are relatively inexpensive to administer and score, not because they tell us a great deal about the capacities of individual students.

(Unlike the people who want to do away with standardized testing because they think it makes them look bad when they do poorly.)

Some students may excel in the classroom yet not perform well on a standardized test because they're unfamiliar with the format or develop test anxiety.

For this reason, we have opted Zachary out of all standardized testing because we believe Zachary's potential is limitless and can not be condensed to a math and reading score.

Not exact matches

New York City's education department is looking to ban the word «dinosaur» from standardized tests, with some speculating it's because the word could offend creationists.

Students turn to us because they've become frustrated in large, impersonal institutions, while others seek a richer, more engaging education without the emphasis on standardized testing.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

American educational progressives are attracted to How to Succeed because of its critical perspective on standardized testing and its advocacy of early learning, beginning in the preschool years.

If public schools are in crisis, it may well be because school reform lurches from cause to cause, from standardized testing to differentiated classrooms, from all - inclusive public schools to charter schools and everything in between.

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«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

The state's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams because they will be different than last year's tests.

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

How much talent do we squander in the world because a child can't get an «A» on a standardized test?

In the lab, test subjects were given foods by a standardized weight (grams), because certain foods like carrots have more water and unavailable carbs like fiber, they had to give subjects seven carrots to equal the carbs of white bread.

Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are making significant gains on standardized test scores.»

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

And I think that raises a really interesting dilemma for kids, because all of the important things that play and spontaneous activity accomplish are precisely the things that by definition are going to be hard to measure in a standardized test.

Only a few of the districts could be directly compared because they use the same standardized achievement test.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

Because standardized tests often differ from state to state and district to district, Ritchhart, a research associate with Harvard University's Project Zero, accentuates the importance of making students familiar with the form and format of the specific test they will be asked to take.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

Haney and others have concluded that this policy change artificially drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.

The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.

The finding that happiness is positively correlated with GPA is significant, Hinton notes, because GPA provides a broader picture of academic achievement than standardized test scores, encompassing multiple types of abilities and the influence of social dynamics.

This is important to know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by scores on standardized tests, significantly affects student achievement.

This is largely because most teachers lead classrooms that are outside the grades and subjects subject to standardized tests.

Because of the need for nationally standardized achievement tests to provide fine - grained, percentile - by - percentile comparisons, it is imperative that these tests produce a considerable degree of score spread — in other words, plenty of differences among test takers» scores.

Because of the vast amount of information that needs to be covered and the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

With few exceptions, however, the assessments states have chosen to implement because of NCLB are either nationally standardized achievement tests or state - developed standards - based tests — both of which are flawed.

Criterion - referenced standardized tests can be very useful to teachers because they can use the testing data to help drive interventions children might need.

Because the students had been using their laptops for less than two years, it might have been too soon to see noticeable gains in areas that are covered by standardized tests.

That's because the standardized tests employed are flat - out wrong.

I believe turnover in urban schools is so high because of the lack of targeted professional development to help teachers be successful in that environment, the huge emphasis placed on standardized testing, and the lack of shared leadership within most urban schools.

Because Maine's standardized tests focus heavily on mathematics and language skills, Salm said, middle school students would start taking their core courses every day instead of every other day as they have done in the past.

When deciding whether to admit a student, colleges more heavily weigh grades over standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, because they show a student's performance over a period of time rather than on a particular day.

In cases where standardized tests are administered annually to all students, student growth percentiles, or SGPs, provide a simple way of making this comparison because they show how each student's test - score growth ranks among academically similar students.

The state mandate that students use computers for standardized tests has made the situation worse because computers are scarce and easily crash.

Another group read Story Time, a satirical novel about a school obsessed with standardized testing (in one passage, an English teacher is fired for hanging up a Shakespeare poster because Shakespeare isn't on the test).

It's time to stop justifying the arts because they can help our children do better on their SATs or other standardized tests, urges Jessica Hoffman Davis in this impassioned...

The faulty results will not have the same impact as the mistakes made two years ago by CTB / McGraw - Hill, a Monterey, Calif. - based publisher of standardized tests, because the scoring flaw in this case was identified before the results were released publicly.

Because writing is a big part of Ohio's standardized tests, she hoped that the experience would also enhance their scores on those exams.