Sentences with phrase «tests as irrelevant»
Instead of seeing tests as irrelevant or a waste of time, as some parents complain, tests will become a tool to learn more about a student's progress.
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For example, parents of a gifted fourth grader who achieves at a sixth grade level on nationally normed achievement test may be told those results are irrelevant as the fourth graders in this district are «really» sixth graders when they take a nationally normed test.
On the other hand, proponents of the view that history is about facts and dates would regard essay - based tests as deeply flawed, since they assess students» writing and linguistic skills as well as historical knowledge (what is sometimes called «construct - irrelevant variance»).
«We expect the ACT / SAT optional list to continue growing as more institutions recognize that the tests remain biased, coachable, educationally damaging and irrelevant to sound admissions practices,» Schaeffer said.
New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.
As a condition of basic funding, they demand concrete results, like standardized test scores, that are often irrelevant to important educational and life outcomes; and that often force schools to deprive poor children of the types of learning that are most important in life.
He grounds this on the requirements of the CILFIT test: accordingly the UKSC will be under an obligation to refer unless (i) the question raised is irrelevant; (ii) the EU provision in question has already been interpreted by the Court; or (iii) the correct application of EU law is so obvious as to leave no scope for any reasonable doubt.