Sentences with phrase «student standardized test scores»

More than 80 percent of respondents believe at least some component of teacher evaluation should be based on student standardized test scores.

The newly imposed performance evaluation system, which is in its second year of testing, includes student standardized test scores in evaluating teachers and administrators.

How obsessive have school reformers been with linking student standardized test scores to the evaluations of adults in school buildings?

Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.

Of principals surveyed in 2001, 48 percent thought it a «bad idea» to «hold principals accountable for student standardized test scores at the building level.»

In an evaluation of four principal preparation programs, Matthew Clifford of the American Institutes for Research and Eva Chiang of the George W. Bush Institute determined that using student standardized test scores alone does not give a conclusive picture of how well a principal training program prepares principals to be able to improve student learning in their schools.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

Instead, most of what we learn about schools online — on the websites of magazines, on school rating sites, and even on real estate listings — comes from student standardized test scores.

U.S. News ranked the schools using a four step methodology that includes students standardized test scores, along with graduation rates, and participation in advanced placement courses.

According to the study, merit pay did not improve student standardized test scores or teacher retention — two main goals of the program paid for with a $ 27.5 million federal grant.

During a special meeting on Monday with one of the program's creators, board members heard from some who said the $ 273,000 that the board is considering paying for a three - year contract with Chicago - based TeacherMatch could be better used elsewhere, and expressed concerns over searching for a tool to predict whether a teacher will raise student standardized test scores.

However, an over-reliance on student standardized test scores for evaluating teacher and principal performance does not take into account improved student progress in light of challenging circumstances that confront students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Last year Students Matter filed a lawsuit, Doe v. Antioch, against 13 California school districts, saying collective bargaining agreements in those districts violated the Stull Act by explicitly prohibiting the use of student standardized test scores in assessing teacher performance.

Race to the Top began in 2009, requiring states interested in competing for a slice of $ 4.35 billion in stimulus money to prepare plans that satisfied the Obama administration's education - reform criteria, which include the growth of charter schools and linking student standardized test scores to teacher evaluations.

As explained in a guest blog this year by by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond, these measures use student standardized test scores to track the growth of individual students as they progress through the grades and see how much «value» a teacher has added.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

In a statement, NYSUT President Karen Magee pointed to the 21 recommendations recently offered up by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Task Force that she said «would put New York on a path toward ending the era of test - and - punish» — a reference to the prior linkage of student standardized test scores to teachers» evaluations.

Unfortunately, the regulations — which link 20 - 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation on the results of student standardized test scores — don't have some of the elements necessary to make them either fair or effective.»

In Landrum, South Carolina, principals and teachers have come to rely on a software package they used to create a database of students standardized test scores.

One of the biggest complaints about NCLB was the test - and - punish nature of the law — the high - stakes consequences attached to student standardized test scores.

Student standardized test scores can accurately identify effective teachers, especially when combined with classroom observations and pupil surveys, according to a major national study released Tuesday.

The union's gambit of evaluating Deasy is an intentional twist on Deasy's nascent evaluation that relies in part on student standardized test scores.

In the following post (which also appeared on Huffington Post), Weingarten comes out firmly against value - added methods of evaluating teachers, which basically use complicated formulas that use student standardized test scores to evaluate the «value» a teacher adds to a student's learning.

She has written powerfully (see below) about the damage standardized tests are doing to students, and about the evaluation system that New York officials are imposing on educators that is heavily based on student standardized test scores and that is being implemented before it is fully designed.

(At its inception, IMPACT relied heavily on student standardized test scores, and in fact used them to evaluate every adult in the system, including custodians.

And yet, measures of school quality — largely based on student standardized test scores — have long remained disappointingly narrow, unable to capture the full complexity of school quality.

Recently, Duckworth heard about the school that was instituting a Grit Week in order to boost its students standardized testing scores, a goal she 100 percent would not have picked, for one simple reason: Who ever heard of a teenager being passionate about standardized tests?

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has just asked for a «pause» in implementation of a controversial new teacher evaluation system that uses student standardized test scores to assess teachers as well creation of a task force to study the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

It was spearheaded under Rhee by Henderson, her deputy, and initially relied heavily on student standardized test scores to evaluate every adult in the system, including custodians.

Despite a growing chorus of opposition from teachers, students and even school superintendents, the Republican - dominated state Legislature is intent on passing a bill that would make eliminate teacher tenure, link teacher pay to student standardized test scores, and add a heap more tests on already test - plagued students.

A key Senate committee approved a bill Thursday aimed at enhancing teacher evaluations that would effectively eliminate state requirements to use student standardized test scores to measure an instructor's effectiveness.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

King was also a former charter school leader in Boston and New York who led a series of school reforms that included a new teacher evaluation system using student standardized test scores.

The survey by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) also found an overwhelming majority (81 percent) of respondents do not support teacher evaluation systems that rely significantly on the results of student standardized test scores.

Deasy has angered some teachers by pushing for an evaluation system that includes the use of student standardized test scores.

Most charter operators can find a way to get rid of students they don't want, yet most of these schools don't perform any better — at least when it comes to student standardized test scores — than traditional public schools.

Seymour also said that using reverse - seniority for layoff considerations served the district better than teacher evaluations based on student standardized test scores.

Most teachers, me included, do not want incentive pay to be based on our students standardized test scores alone.

In a major revamp of teacher evaluations, Deasy has directed that student standardized test scores should count for 30 % of a teacher's performance review.

We have reached incredibly low teacher turnover, our learning environments have naturally flourished, and our students standardize test scores have increased accordingly.

The spokesperson for the Superintendents has repeatedly joined in Malloy's claim that teachers must be held accountable for their students standardized test scores — despite the fact that test scores are driven by wide range of factors far beyond the teachers» control.

ASA notes that teachers account for 1 - 14 percent of the variability in student standardized test scores.