Sentences with phrase «supports good test scores»

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But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners A well - organized, research - based guide for teachers who hope to move beyond test scores to meaningful lessons that support higher - level thinking.

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generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

By good I mean that they score comparatively well on state tests, have a goodly number of students who receive passing scores on Advanced Placement tests, send a majority of graduates off to college, and enjoy the support of their respective communities.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

MET could have allayed those concerns by telling teachers that test score gains produce information that is generally similar to what is learned from well - conducted classroom observations, so there is no reason to oppose one and support the other.

However, I still find no evidence in the MET report to support the idea that its measures can identify ineffective teachers without damaging and / or destroying the careers of good teachers, guilty of nothing but committing their careers to schools where it is harder to raise test scores.

District staff asked parents and educators what they wanted to learn about the assessment system, and they designed training sessions to address these topics, such as having parents analyze student test questions, helping teachers learn to score extended responses, and allowing teachers to explore accessibility and accommodations resources to find out which supports were the best fit for their students.

The 20,914 resulting home visits have led to many positive results, according to the project's Sacramento - area director Lisa Levasseur, including not only better communication, trust and support between families and teachers but also increases in student attendance rates and test scores, and decreases in suspension and expulsion rates.

Policymakers and the public must immediately engage in an open and transparent community decision - making process about the best ways to use test scores and to develop accountability systems that fully support a broader, more accurate definition of college, career, and citizenship readiness that ensures equity and access for all students.

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The ACE program is designed to provide the academic enrichment and skill support needed to boost student preparation for honors classes, as well as improve student PARCC test scores.

The true measure of student success is much more than just a test score and such success requires support well beyond effective instruction.

«Good grief,» wrote one of the readers in the comments section following the LA Times story, lamenting that Ratliff was cooperating with Deasy and Garcia «in support of tying teacher evaluations and pay to standardized test scores.»

This belief is supported by a number of studies showing teachers» standardized test scores to be well below the average for all college graduates (see Corcoran, Evans, & Schwab, 2004).

But with noteworthy improvements on test scores at the schools using the program, as well as some gentle encouragement from the district and support from MIND Research Institute, the number of DCPS schools using the program is steadily increasing.

Strong progress with high test scores means students have strong academic skills and the school is a doing a better job at supporting academic growth than most other schools.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

«Now, these are not occasions where everyone sits around and sings kumbaya — the results have shown that even taking a small amount of time to have community discussions on classroom management and discipline has led to increased test scores, because students are comfortable and better adept at learning when they are supported with positive energy.»

The Whole Child Snapshots feature data aligned with the five tenets of ASCD's Whole Child Initiative — healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged — to provide a fuller picture of well - being that extends beyond standardized test scores.

Proven Reforms: We support the expansion of sensible, research - based reforms, such as pre-K programs, full - day Kindergarten, small classes, parent involvement, strong, experienced teachers, a well - rounded curriculum and evaluation systems that go beyond test scores.

Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.

Other than announcing that «We've built better schools, raised test scores, made college more affordable, and put Connecticut on a path toward universal pre-kindergarten,» Malloy made no mention of the massive Common Core testing scheme that will be swamping Connecticut's public schools this year, neither did he explain why his administration supported the Common Core «cut scores» that are designed to ensure that the vast majority of public school students and teachers are deemed failures.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

In analyzing these results, as well as other survey data, the nonprofit Center for American Progress (CAP) determined that teachers are more likely to support programs that rely on a variety of measures of teacher performance, rather than those that rely on only one measure (such as test scores).

Our school profiles now include important information in addition to test scores — factors that make a big difference in how children experience school, such as how much a school helps students improve academically, how well a school supports students from different socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups, and whether or not some groups of students are disproportionately affected by the school's discipline and attendance policies.

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Independent sample t - test was used to compare the level of self - esteem, family function score and social support score between the two groups with and without grandparenting experience; Pearson correlation was calculated to explore how levels of self - esteem and family functions as well as perceived social support were related; Hierarchical regression analysis was applied to examine the moderating effect of social support on the relationship between family function and self - esteem.