Sentences with phrase «teachers test students»

After instruction, in Jigsaw II, teachers test students individually and produce team scores based on each student's test performance.

With internet access on your phone, pens, and, who knows, maybe even sneakers someday, how will teachers test students in a fair, cheat - proof environment?

Not exact matches

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

But the belief, the expectation, colored the teachers» perception and influenced their behavior to be more attentive and caring to the students, thus improving their homework and test scores.

The teachers were told that these students were all potential geniuses based on their IQ tests.

This year's top teachers have withstood the tests of time, taught through bear and bull markets, and have consistently imparted life - changing lessons to MBA students year after year.

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

Students communicate with their teachers and set up a schedule for completing any missed assignments and tests.

Thankfully, the teacher knew the kids were average students, so she had them try the test again — this time, testing them on sequencing a food they're culturally familiar with.

The teacher blows the whistle and everyone jumps in the pool and starts dog paddling during the tread water portion of the test and as you are keeping yourself afloat you look around and see a large number of students wearing inflated water wings and just napping as they float through the exam.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

As a result of these conversations, students and teachers together created an honor code to be used with every paper, quiz, test, project, and assessment.

Jay Mathews, education writer for The Washington Post, wrote a recent column about teachers who refused to give students back their graded tests.

What he found was that some teachers were reliably able to raise their students» standardized - test scores year after year.

Some of these tests were the standardized tests that the states or districts re-use each year, and the teachers were worried about kids cheating — sharing questions and answers with next year's students.

«The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.»

We have found that when teachers allow students to take home graded tests and then turn in test corrections, the students can learn from their mistakes and eventually understand the material in depth.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get those students to college and raise their future wages than were the much celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

Teachers and students agreed that missing class time, making up tests, game schedules, and missing practices were the main issues.

Teachers struggle to meet standards and prepare students for tests without assigning unreasonable amounts of homework.

Teachers have a variety of techniques for preparing students for tests to help ensure the tests accurately measure the grade level skills kids have mastered.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

The need for such testing may be brought to the attention of the principal through a search authorized by § 49-6-4204 or § 49-6-4205, observed or reported use of drugs by the student on school property, or other reasonable information received from a teacher, staff member or other student.

And, in order to prevent the students from deliberately throwing the test (in order to «get back» at unpopular teachers) they had to have skin in the game, as well — thus the «no pass — no promote» rule.

Despite that, parents are as frustrated as ever, teachers are tired of «teaching the test» and too many students are still...

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

Chicago teachers don't like the hot new trend of rating teachers by how much their students improve on standardized tests.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

And yet those teachers, according to Jackson's calculations, were doing more to get their students to college and raise their future wages than were the much - celebrated teachers who boosted students» test scores.

In addition to the parent and student portions of the online application, a completed application includes school records, math and English teacher evaluations (Grades 6 - 12), and the results of the Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE) or the Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)(Grades 7 - 12).

For all applicants, the first task is to fill out the application online and for students in grades 1 - 12 to arrange to have school reports, teacher recommendations, and test scores forwarded to our online admissions portal.

The student shall take any nationally normed student achievement test administered by a certified teacher;

«We congratulate our students, teachers and administrators for their continued exceptional performance on these new tests, which shows they're mastering knowledge crucial to career and college readiness, and we have set our sights on greater success for every child in the coming year,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

«Teachers recommend that students eat a good breakfast during test week,» notes Supt. Juneau.

The temporary records, which will otherwise be destroyed in July, includes students» family background information, teacher comments, disciplinary information and test scores.

Standardized tests should not be the largest part of a full evaluation of a student or a teacher.

When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

«The Assembly Majority has heard the concerns of New York's educators and parents and we know that teachers» performance and that of New York's students may not be truly reflected in test scores.

The GOP majority has been strongly supportive of the Endless Testing Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outTesting Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outtesting down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt out rates.

Lawmakers in both houses in recent weeks have introduced bills designed to ease aspects of the education policies in the budget, ranging from a codification of students opting out of state tests to exempting top - performing school districts from the new teacher evaluation criteria.

He has been a booster of charter schools and of using student test scores to rate teachers.

Decoupled the state assessments from teacher evaluations and placed a four - year moratorium on the use of student test scores for evaluation purposes;

Cuomo and lawmakers approve stricter rules raising the portion of teachers» evaluations based on student test scores to approximately 50 percent.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.