Sentences with phrase «talking about test scores»

It builds a foundation of trust and respect that will make talking about test scores more productive.

«When people talk about their experience with a really good teacher, they're not talking about test scores,» said Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Talking about test scores to people who don't think test scores are important is not a winning strategy.

Suddenly, the quiet boy comes to life, offering his opinion in Lisa Johnson's English Language Arts class at Sanger Unified School District's Fairmont School, where clusters of four to six students meet often to talk about test scores and work through lessons.

Not exact matches

Apparently Mattison talked about how kids with 4.0 s and high test scores get turned away from Michigan all the time.

Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, talks about shifting the focus from IQ and test scores to traits of perseverance, curiosity, and grit for long term success in kids.

Talking to children about their emotions and helping them build up their ability to be emotionally intelligent has proven to reduce bullying, live happier lives, improve test scores, and create greater success later in life through their jobs and personal lives.

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

So, you just sit down and visit or go out and purposefully talk about anything other than school, school kids, teachers, staff members, test scores.

Harding praised Moe's efforts to talk about union incentives and behavior, accepted the notion that test scores are useful measures of learning, and suggested we can all «put our heads in our hands over the state of [teacher] contracts.»

One student, for example, in feedback provided to Rachlin, talked about not giving up after receiving a devastating score of 49 on a chemistry test.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

So they changed their talking points: Now the teachers were upset about evaluations that would link their performance reviews with students» test scores.

Beginning with the New York Times's front - page splash about an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study in August of 2004 («Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test scoTest Scores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test sScores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test scotest scoresscores.

In Part One of a two - part interview, LA School Report contributor Vanessa Romo talks with Deasy about his relationship with teachers, the challenges of pioneering the new Common Core curriculum and the possibility that district - wide test scores might fall this year.

From Wikipedia about de - «personalized education», in the Debate section - «What personalized learning really means is adjusting the difficulty level of prefab skills - based exercises based on student test scores... (and) requires the purchase of software...» From the first Wikipedia paragraph, citing 2017 US NETP,»... (students and teachers) talk about learning progress, process and / or PRODUCTS (my caps)».

Test scores get all the press when talking about how to measure the success of a school transformation.

As the date for the releases of the test scores approached, we received many notices of «talking points» to inform our communities about the outcomes, with explanations of new baselines and how these tests do not reflect the efforts of students and teachers this year.

In an interview last week, the 32 - year - old Marrocco talked about her path to excellence, a climb marked by a few stepping stones that are often overlooked in debates over teacher evaluation, tenure, and test scores.

The President always talks about too much testing, but he endorses performance pay based on test scores.

No one has talked about correlating test scores with attendance with age, or about early interventions to prevent later dropouts, or about a host of other well researched tools available to teachers and schools to reduce retention - the absolutely worst thing a school can do to a student (according to virtually all relevant research, as reviewed in John Hattie's Visible Learning).

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

Standardized test scores become the thing that people talk about and the focus of staff meetings, class instruction, and water cooler con - versations.

When the education reformers talk about using evaluations in the process of determining which teachers stay or go, they always talk about using CMT test scores to measure as a measure of effectiveness.

A lot of people talk about the value of formative assessment, but Carol Ann Tomlinson points out that, too often, it is reduced to a mechanism for raising end - of - year - test scores when it should be an ongoing exchange between a teacher and his or her students designed to help students grow.

We're talking to school boards, superintendents and other organizations about endorsements, and working on a piece of state legislation that would place a moratorium on state - imposed consequences tied to student test scores.

During the evaluation, the team reviews recent report cards and grades, standardized test scores, discipline reports and talks with parents and teachers about school performance.

We can't get there by talking about numbers like standardized test scores, which will always be a reflection of the wealth or poverty of the students» parents, or graduation rates, which can be manipulated simply by redefining the course requirements or eliminating low achieving students.

And they aren't talking about a few test scores here — but a big ol' heap of data on every student.

Today Dr. Brad Johnson @drbradjohnson talks about the mistakes schools make that hurt their standardized test scores.

Parents talked about wanting the opposite of homework in kindergarten, strict discipline, every aspect of the child's day controlled by the teacher and a focus on scores and tests.

Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public - school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores...

We talk about how discipline is handled, test scores, and more.

Talking about the score, it managed to fetch 814 points on single core and 3898 points in multi-core tests.

Talking about the scores, this upcoming Blackberry phone managed to score 698 points in single core and 3656 points in multi-core test.

It is a strange world we live in where from the day you are born you are taught by the people around you to compete in grades, tests, SAT scores, GPA, jobs, positions, salary, etc and yet NO ONE talks to you about Net Worth.

Talking about the browsing score from Vellamo benchmark app, the app tested the device to measure some stats about browsing.

Talking about the benchmark scores, just to check the potential of the device, we tested it out for Anututu and Vellamo scores.

Talking about the benchmarking tests, the device scored 20,617 in Antutu app, while the Vellamo app measures score in three different aspects; metal, multicore and Chrome browser, the respective scores were 704, 1004 and 1653.