Sentences with phrase «than standardized tests»

Some teachers, for example, might prefer using a portfolio of student work to demonstrate academic progress rather than a standardized test score.

The research suggests another way that we can and should enrich data on effective teaching: examining the value that teachers add to outcomes other than standardized test scores.

Numerous studies have shown that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores.

Over time, teacher assessments provide more detailed and actionable information than standardized tests.

I would also add, as I've written elsewhere, that school performance should be thought of in broader terms than standardized tests.

These measures tell me way more about my students academic growth and development than standardized tests do.

The character sheet has more bubbles than a standardized test, and finding which character you're looking to play as is a pain to scroll through.

That increases pixel count by about 18 percent, however, so real - world performance may prove even worse than our standardized test figures suggest.

The Baltimore school board on Tuesday approved broad changes to the way city schools are funded, allowing money to be allotted based largely on student poverty levels rather than standardized test scores.

The new formula aims to focus on more than standardized test scores, with 60 percent of student progress measured by academics and 40 percent measured by «social - emotional and culture - climate» factors, such as suspension and expulsion rates and student and parent surveys.

There are alternatives that could have been discussed: Some education reformers insist that student portfolios are a better basis for assessing student learning than standardized tests, and researchers using ethnographic methods sometimes come up with insights that we do not find in standard statistically based research.

The finding that happiness is positively correlated with GPA is significant, Hinton notes, because GPA provides a broader picture of academic achievement than standardized test scores, encompassing multiple types of abilities and the influence of social dynamics.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) are creating computer - adaptive exams that will offer customized questions based on student responses, which will measure what students do and do not know more efficiently and accurately than standardized tests have in the past.

The truth is that after realizing that student grades are a better indicator of college readiness than standardized tests, hundreds and hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States are dropping the requirement that students even provide an SAT score with their application.

The teacher is still the best assessment tool because classroom assessments are formative (immediate) in nature, and over time they provide a cumulative, running record of achievement that is more reliable than any standardized test.

Policymakers often cite the subjective nature of teacher grades as a reason for giving them less weight than standardized tests scores.

Student work products or individual teachers» formative assessments are more relevant to instructional practices than standardized test scores are.

On the other hand, it is entirely plausible that one - on - one tutorial instruction by teachers would have a two - standard - deviation effect on material that is highly sensitive to instruction (and indeed, this explains why experimental interventions often show far bigger effects on teacher - produced tests than standardized tests — put bluntly, the teachers» tests measured the kinds of things that teaching changes, while the standardized tests did not).

But those in the Active Learning Classroom scored nearly 30 points higher than their standardized test scores forecast.

Some universities are already soliciting student work as part of their admissions process, recognizing that they reveal more about capacities to succeed than standardized test scores.

Pryor's tenure has been dedicated to a preoccupation with turning our schools into little more than standardized testing factories.

More important than standardized test scores, the quality of the education that students who are educated with a Common Core curriculum have is vastly inferior to the education that other students in affluent suburbs and independent, private schools have.

Speaking of testing, it is not anti-accountability to support measures of student learning other than standardized tests.

The Baltimore school board voted this week to revamp the district's funding formula, choosing to provide extra dollars to schools on the basis of student poverty rather than standardized test scores.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

(Of course, «college readiness» entails much more than standardized test scores, but they are key components.)

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

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.

In addition, Hespe said the state will add an appeal process for the current year around the use of so - called «student growth objectives,» a separate measure that uses assessments other than standardized test scores.

Teachers who embed arts into teaching strategies say that being able to see what students are thinking — via creative expression, rather than standardized tests — reminds them of why they chose this profession.

By constantly monitoring students» progress (in ways other than standardized tests), principals uncover constructs that create differences in student learning.

We are taking back our public schools because education is more than a standardized test score and our public school teachers should be evaluated on the quality of their work and not on test scores driven by factors beyond their control.

Overall, however, companies such as Google are looking more to experience and personality rather than standardized testing to choose their future employees.