Sentences with phrase «test knowledge of content»

In schools, Afghanistan demonstrates some reliance on national examinations as a means to test knowledge of content from textbooks and memorization, which may not necessarily reflect their level of knowledge and understanding of relevant LTLT concepts.

Not exact matches

«Xfinity Mobile could be seen as «testing the waters» as Comcast will use the knowledge gained, and level of success (or lack of success), in determining next steps in the inevitable convergence of content and wireless distribution,» he writes.

At the conclusion of the course, the learner will be tested on their knowledge of the content and learning outcomes.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

To our knowledge, never before has a videogame intervention been developed with such extensive input from its target audience, and tested through rigorous scientific methods over a long stretch of time, demonstrating that kids will engage in a game with serious content and learn things that impact the way they think and potentially what they do.»

Evaluation will be done through formative and summative assessment of teachers and students (surveys, content knowledge tests and authentic artifacts).

Ideal class activity testing knowledge and understanding of content from across the spe...

With high - stakes tests coming in the spring, she's very concerned about the level of her students» content knowledge.

This is because in the pursuit of absolute equality in every test taker's «experience» of the test, these criteria exclude potentially upsetting passages and any other material that creates disparity, including content that rewards those with greater background knowledge.

If the new assessments are to fulfill the promise of the Common Core, test designers (and indeed all of us) will have to embrace a different, stronger version of fairness, one that requires us to tell the fuller truth about where our students stand, and test the rigorous content that will impart the knowledge and skills to succeed.

If the new tests assess knowledge in ways that demand mastery of sequenced domain knowledge, sophisticated vocabulary, rich content, and cross-disciplinary learning, educators across the country would have a much greater incentive to bring challenging content into their classrooms and thus realize the implicit promise of the new standards.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

It also strays from one of the pillars of flipped learning — namely, that the classroom be used as a laboratory to test, refine, explore, and deepen information through intentional content planned around the prior knowledge of students.

Besides, it's a generic content test, not a test of a teacher's content knowledge in her future teaching position or her pedagogical knowledge.

To improve the quality of teaching by keeping teachers» knowledge up - to - date the MESH system is testing: • Pooling quality - assured knowledge for teachers (subject content and pedagogy) • Providing open access, updatable, trusted, research summaries.

In this interactive webinar, the co-founders of the Vermont Writing Collaborative and a 4th grade teacher share classroom - tested methods that advance student achievement by intimately connecting deep content knowledge with explicit writing frameworks.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

Even within a framework of student autonomy and the minimal use of standardized quizzes and tests, our students manage to beat the local, state, and sometimes national averages in specific content knowledge.

During the half - year pilot, researchers refined and tested reading models and instructional strategies to improve reading comprehension of all CTE students, even those who struggle with reading for content knowledge and solving problems.

Hill, Ball and Brian Rowan find only modest links between measures of the mathematical knowledge that teachers need for teaching and their students» performance on standardized math tests, and the vaunted Measures of Effective Teaching project had to abandon its content knowledge for teaching measures, designed to assess some aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, as they were not associated with student achievement.

This month, AACTE will host free webinars on incorporating content knowledge for teaching (CKT) into education course work, presented by experts from TeachingWorks (University of Michigan) and ETS ® Educator Series (Educational Testing Service).

Thousands of educators have contributed to the design of innovative new test questions that measure students» readiness to master rigorous academic content, think critically and apply knowledge to solve problems, and conduct research to develop and communicate a point of view.

Our education focus has been on testing and assessments of content knowledge.

Content on norm - referenced tests does not generally include all the expected knowledge at any level, instead including only those questions that are good at differentiating between various student levels of knowledge.

Field - test teachers often pointed out student levels of engagement, student ability to use new content knowledge, and connections to required curriculum standards as factors contributing to high ratings in terms of the effectiveness of the lesson.

Students who experienced Speedometry out - performed who had not experienced Speedometry on a test of science and math content knowledge.

Secondary teacher candidates with LESS THAN three full - time years of K12 classroom teaching experience are required to produce evidence of passing the accepted content knowledge test in the content he / she will teach.

Detailed discussions of the alignment of test item content for each test are provided in the FAST ™ Knowledge Base.

Elementary teacher candidates who were licensed as a teacher in any state after July 1, 2006 are required to produce evidence of passing the accepted content knowledge test.

Reference the Colorado Department of Education website for the accepted secondary content PRAXIS II tests and the accepted secondary content knowledge PLACE tests.

Secondary teacher candidates with three OR MORE full - time years of K12 classroom teaching experience are required to produce evidence of passing the accepted content knowledge test or evidence of 24 college credit hours in the content he / she will teach.

San Juan schools will be taking part in a Diné Content Standards Assessment pilot to test students knowledge of Diné life and history.

The comprehensive examination is UNC's test of content knowledge and serves as the exit exam for the Visual Impairment and O&M programs.

«Virginia's new SOL tests — which emphasize the application of content knowledge and critical thinking — set a higher bar and the students in these schools are better prepared for having met it.»

The study, published in the American Educational Research Journal, tested 181 middle - school teachers and almost 10,000 students and found that the most effective teachers were the ones who had both sound content knowledge and a deep understanding of how their students thought.

Candidates for a first - time Minnesota classroom teaching license must pass the MTLE Basic Skills Test, a test of general pedagogy, and a test of content knowledge for the specific licensure fiTest, a test of general pedagogy, and a test of content knowledge for the specific licensure fitest of general pedagogy, and a test of content knowledge for the specific licensure fitest of content knowledge for the specific licensure field.

Out - of - state candidates applying for a Minnesota initial teaching license who have completed an approved program in another state leading to teaching licensure must complete and pass the Minnesota Basic Skills Test, a pedagogy test, and content knowledge subtexts specific to the requested licensing field in order to receive a teaching liceTest, a pedagogy test, and content knowledge subtexts specific to the requested licensing field in order to receive a teaching licetest, and content knowledge subtexts specific to the requested licensing field in order to receive a teaching license.

The point of this example is that knowledge of content and of the vocabulary acquired through learning about content are fundamental to successful reading comprehension; without broad knowledge, children's reading comprehension will not improve and their scores on reading comprehension tests will not budge upwards either.

So far, I see them seeming to test content that would be common knowledge if one had the benefit of a rigorous education focused on building academic knowledge and skill.

That's what these kinds of tests are like to kids without the content knowledge and concomitant vocabulary.

Collaborative member and Director of Teacher Professional Development at WestEd Aida Walqui, along with Margaret Heritage, the Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert Linquanti, Project Director for English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support and Senior Researcher for the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, lay the groundwork for continuing the progress teachers have made with English language learner (ELL) students in their new book English Language Learners and the New Standards: Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom.

For example, both Oregon and Georgia use the Praxis II Mathematics: Content Knowledge exam for the licensure of prospective secondary school math teachers (a test judged to be at the advanced high school level.

Accommodations do not change the content of instruction, give students an unfair advantage, or change the skills or knowledge that a test measures.

Ensuring that students are familiar with the new TE item types is crucial to ensuring that testing will be an accurate measure of their content knowledge.

Generally, this assessment will include two different tests — one which assesses the candidate's knowledge of basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics, and another which assesses the candidate's expertise in the content area for which he or she is seeking certification.

Instead, students should come into their tests with a high level of comfort with the technology to be used so that they can focus on demonstrating their content knowledge.

While all teaching colleges measure students» knowledge of content and teaching methods, at CWU we also test compassion, caring, and conscientiousness using a unique evaluation process.

Licensure assessments for those entering teaching reflect this uncertainty; virtually all measure some aspects of candidates» personal content knowledge but few test their knowledge at a standard adequate for teaching it, and even fewer require evidence of performance ability — in part because there is no professional consensus around what a new teacher should be able to do.