Sentences with phrase «testing policies produce»

Did high - stakes testing policies produce only one - time impacts on behavior or are there long - term impacts?

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And that «what Mr Clegg fears is that if the party isn't grown - up enough about producing sensible policies, it will fail the most important test of all — the general election.

Produced by diverse universities and institutions across the country and world, the supplement investigates the quality of vital, broadly sold drugs, such as anti-malarials and antibiotics; new tests and assays to detect counterfeit drugs; and proposed policy changes and laws to reduce the distribution and sale of falsified medications.

What policy changes actually produced these test - score gains?

Putting a finger on exactly which policy changes produced the test - score improvements is remarkably difficult, because the state adopted a wide array of policies that may have had a beneficial effect.

The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

The report published last month by the Educational Testing Service's Policy Information Center suggests that community colleges are not alone in producing few bachelor's - degree candidates.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

Accordingly, any policy that drives charters into old molds - making them, in effect, «look and act familiar» as worthy expressions of the existing «system,» producing students who do well primarily on tests organized in ways that reflect this system - undermines the sound intent of the charter idea.

A new project by a team of researchers associated with Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis has produced a database that includes school district test scores, poverty rates, and racial demographics (report on the database's creation here).

High - stakes testing is a «failed policy initiative» that does not produce gains on other measures of student learning, researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe argue in a recent paper.

Policy makers in Washing - ton and the state capitals apparently assumed that more testing would produce more learning.

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

«In some cases, these charter schools have quite large effects, such that attending one for three years produce test - score gains that are equivalent to the size of the U.S. black - white achievement gap,» said Sarah Cohodes, an assistant professor of education and public policy at Columbia University in a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

Unlike multiple - choice tests, these assessments require students to construct answers, produce products, or perform activities; they allow educators to assess student performance meaningfully and foster deeper Read more about Performance Assessments: How State Policy Can Advance Assessments for 21st Century Learning -LSB-...]

Schools producing poor test scores will almost inevitably incur harsh criticism from parents as well as policy makers and educators.

Citing a rise in test scores over the past decade, education policy analyst Rick Hess stated in Education Week in June that the city's «radical experiment in urban education... produced extraordinarily impressive results.»

Recognizing that policies on heartworm testing and treatment of dogs and cats up for adoption differ among shelters and that not all animal shelters have the financial resources to test and treat heartworm disease, the Heartworm Disease Resource Task Force, a collaboration between AHS and the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV), has produced a series of educational brochures on heartworm for people seeking to adopt a shelter animal.

«The development and testing process can be very long and challenging in order to produce high - quality devices that meet the needs of consumers worldwide,» implying that building such devices isn't something Samsung is used to, considering its device spam policy when it comes to Android devices.

The Work Values Assessment test was originally designed by the O * NET consortium, a project produced and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Employment and Training Administration, and the Office of Policy and Research (OPR).