Sentences with phrase «there about standardized tests»

There's a constant conversation out there about standardized tests: whether they're good or bad, or how much time we're spending on them.

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And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

There are interesting stories about Common Core and standardized testing all over the country, but if you want real entertainment, you have to look closely at Florida.

There are legitimate complaints about the ways in which states are using the results of standardized tests.

a broad agreement about their mission and purpose — everyone's there to get high scores on standardized tests, everyone's in agreement about the need for results, and everyone's bought into how these results will be obtained.

Success in education is often measured by a standardized test, but there arent any tests designed to measure how students feel about themselves after being actively involved in a program like this.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

«There were various anecdotal reasons why students refused the test, ranging from test anxiety to concerns about this specific standardized assessment,» she said.

U.S. Schools Are Too Focused on Standardized Tests, Poll Says Washington Post, 8/23/15» «Clearly, there is anxiety about what's happening in teaching and learning,» said Andres Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former chief executive of Baltimore City Public Schools.»

There's something else that's different about Wayne Township's model: How teachers whose students don't take standardized tests are scored.

Those students — there are about 80 of them, according to the district — recently learned that they are not eligible to earn high school credits for those courses because they skipped the standardized test.

We're also interested... [in] abuses of standardized testing... This story that was all over that national media a few weeks ago, about this child who was dying in hospice — and the state of Florida insisted that he had to take his test... Then there was the child born without a brain stem — they wanted him tested too.

And think about this: If teachers are evaluated on test scores, there has to be standardized test for every class.

We can't get there by talking about numbers like standardized test scores, which will always be a reflection of the wealth or poverty of the students» parents, or graduation rates, which can be manipulated simply by redefining the course requirements or eliminating low achieving students.

Newkirk also has concerns about the connection between standardized testing and the Common Core, a situation that ultimately limits what is taught: «These tests will give operational reality to the standards — in effect they will become the standards; there will be little incentive to teach to skills that are not tested.»

Written by Carrie Wilson, Executive Director (more about Carrie) After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests can not be...

But beyond the hubbub around the A-F school grading system's formula, which many agree overemphasizes student performance on standardized tests, there are larger questions about what the A-F school grading system will do for public schools in the long term.