Sentences with phrase «tested practice growth»

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For example, a quasi-experimental study by the Educational Testing Service found that teachers with a high level of engagement in a large - scale mentoring program (California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers) improved both teaching practices and student achievement, producing an effect size equivalent to half a year's growth (Thompson, Goe, Paek, and Ponte, 2004).

Student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of practice appear to pick up different but complementary information that, combined, can provide a balanced and accurate picture of teacher performance, according to research recently released from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

These tests help students understand one of the myriad reasons it is important to study vocabulary, and how these practice tests provide me with a great source of data to measure student growth.

More practice on any skill results in an increase on growth and better test scores.

Our testing practices themselves have changed very little since our inception as a school, but we've begun to use the data in a more meaningful way, restructuring our grade teams to become inquiry teams focused on the growth of students across all subject areas.

This detailed information about student academic growth should be used instead of AGT scores or any other measurements based on a single test, as teachers and administrators seek to use data to inform best practices that will improve student achievement;» [emphasis ours]

Student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of practice appear to pick up different but complementary information that, combined, can provide a balanced and accurate picture of teacher performance, according to research released today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This presents a rich opportunity to establish a process that gathers student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of classroom practice.

that gathers student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of classroom practice.

As the foundation of this initiative, SLOs are being used to measure teacher practice and student academic growth in both tested and non-tested grades and subjects.

Research and best practice models suggest that high - quality assessments: (1) measure what they are designed to measure; (2) are consistently applied and tested for fairness; (3) regard assessment as an ongoing process for professional growth, not just a «tool» or an isolated event; (4) use the best available evidence, often from multiple sources; (5) reinforce the organization's core goals; (6) provide actionable feedback on what matters most; and (7) help build a culture of continuous improvement.

Explaining that the use of growth hormones in pig - rearing — a standard practice in China — could cause athletes to fail anti-doping tests, Niu Shengnan, a spokesman for the supplier Qianxihe Food Group, said that no steroids would be used in the pigs and that they would be chosen from carefully monitored parents and fed an all - organic diet.

The continued growth of international commercial arbitration has proven to be an excellent illustration of the cross-fertilization of civil and common law concepts, even offering a test - bed to further develop best practices in the resolution of transnational commercial disputes.

Although this important longitudinal study could not pinpoint all of the reasons for these fluctuations in IQ scores at different test occasions, the investigators did show that parenting practices were likely to be a significant influence on the children's intelligence growth patterns.