Sentences with phrase «student scores on standardized tests»

According to many experts, the answer is a resounding no — especially when teacher ability is measured solely or primarily on student scores on standardized tests.

A poor rating coupled with low student scores on standardized tests is often the foundation for defining a bad teacher.

Have student scores on standardized tests changed during the past several years?

Clearly, physical exercise is just one of the necessary ingredients for improving student scores on standardized tests.

Testing is viewed less favorably, though, including for teacher accountability purposes; 55 % of Americans and 61 % of public school parents oppose using student scores on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

Fifty - five percent of Americans and 63 percent of public school parents oppose including student scores on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

The index, based largely on how well students score on standardized tests such as the Stanford 9, is part of a 3 - year - old carrot - and - stick program designed to make schools more accountable.

California declined to pursue a waiver in part because Gov. Jerry Brown opposed one of the Obama administration's requirements: that the accountability plans include using student scores on standardized tests in evaluating teachers.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday that his department for the first time will also consider outcomes: How well special - education students score on standardized tests, the gap in test scores between students with and without disabilities, the high school graduation rate for disabled students and other measures of achievement.

These numbers, coupled with high student scores on standardized tests, give Sturgis educators confidence in their approach.

In a curious choice, the «Odds» list is based on how well a school's low - income students score on standardized tests but does not take into account how many low - income students it has.

After re-analyzing the data using a somewhat different method, the Colorado researchers reached a similar general conclusion: Elementary school teachers vary widely in their ability to raise student scores on standardized tests, and that variation can be reliably estimated.

This was the administration whose signature programs, Race to the Top and the waivers to No child Left Behind, demanded states rate schools and teachers based on a «learning output,» which most states took to mean student scores on standardized tests.

In more and more cases, policies require that a teacher be judged partly by his value - added — a measure of what he contributes to student learning as determined by student scores on standardized tests.

Many schools use student scores on standardized tests for making decisions in terms of grouping and class placement as well as other generalizations about the student.

20 % of teacher evaluations will be based on student scores on standardized tests, and another 20 % of the teacher's grade will be based on standardized test scores, but there will be some leeway for interpreting those test scores.

And yet, education reform has almost always propped up the social order: just as current reform success is calculated by how well students score on standardized tests, the progressive education movement's most longstanding success story was its pedagogical program for «Americanization.»

Friedman was speaking specifically about value - added ratings of teachers — which use student scores on standardized tests to determine a teacher's relative effectiveness — and whether they are sufficiently accurate and reliable to guide personnel decisions.

«To create a budget that emphasizes the over reliance on a test - and - punish system just shows and proves that this governor does not understand what is best and what is needed for all students in New York state,» said Magee, referring to Cuomo's plan to evaluate teachers based on student scores on standardized tests.

Some 20 percent of the evaluation (25 percent after two years) would be based on student scores on standardized tests.

I've always been skeptical of society's oft - held belief that student scores on standardized tests are an indication of teacher quality.

Teachers are commonly evaluated by measuring their «value - added» to student scores on standardized tests.

Schools and teachers are being held accountable for proving student achievement in unprecedented ways, including tying teacher salaries to student scores on standardized tests.

SM: Tying teacher pay to student scores on standardized tests has been a hot topic in education for some time now, and I know Peabody has done a lot of research on the topic — what are your opinions?

The district had hoped to tie teacher compensation to student scores on standardized tests; the union says only 30 % of teachers» evaluations will come from student test scores, the minimum under Illinois state law.

However, in Pierce's view, student scores on standardized tests, particularly math tests, are a «litmus test» of the school's overall quality.

Indiana was the scene of major education reform this year, following a nationwide trend of tying teacher reviews to student scores on standardized tests.