Sentences with phrase «teacher based on test scores»

Ratings for teachers based on test scores get it wrong a lot of the time.

Design and provide ongoing, sustained professional development for teachers based on test score data.

But if we all agree that it's insane to measure teachers based on test scores alone, why should we keep doing that for schools?

Serving on the key task force that developed the statewide evaluation system, WEAC has successfully fought off efforts to grade teachers based on the test scores of their students.

«People have to realize that evaluating teachers based on test scores does not make effective teaching!»

Moreover, a new statement by the American Statistical Association reminds us that ranking teachers based on test scores does not even work for measuring their effect on cognitive skills.

-- but that paying teachers based on test scores is «treating them like donkeys rather than professionals,» and that teachers elsewhere were saying «How are we going to be able to fight this off if they agreed to it in Newark?»

Through its own policies and grant programs, the Obama administration has further emphasized testing by requiring states to evaluate teachers based on test scores.

Changes championed by these leaders include incentive pay for teachers based on test scores, greater school choice and new data systems that track the performance of students, teachers and schools.

«As a parent, educator, and taxpayer none of the concerns I have were addressed: Data sharing, Common Core, over-testing, and rating teachers based on test scores,» she says.

After 15 years of federal education policy aimed at sanctioning schools and teachers based on test scores, such statements should come as a breath of fresh air for critics of test - based accountability.

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.

Thus it is not only unfair to judge a teacher based on test scores, but also ineffective — research has shown that test - based incentive programs do not lead to improvement of student achievement.