Sentences with phrase «thinking about standardized test»

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

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But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

GR: What do you think about this effort on the part of some activist parents to get parents to hold their kids out of school during the standardized tests that are part of the school evaluations and the teacher evaluations that are a part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Sadly, many of them never make the connection between mind and body, and just keep sinking into those self - defeating thoughts as they worry about how they will measure up on the next standardized test.

«When the standardized tests begin to test thinking, I'll care about the test scores... but it's not what we want to be doing for kids.

Andrew Miller looks at prep for standardized testing as an opportunity to encourage higher order thinking, embed test prep practices, and make informed decisions about engaging the class and reaching individual students.

She thinks it's time for a big debate about the role of standardized testing in American public education.

With the second half of the school year in full - swing, many educators are starting to think about preparing their students for standardized testing.

I thought of... Continue reading Paging Ernestine: Long Island Opt - Outers Don't Care About Standardized Tests Because They Don't Have To.

This guide provides a framework for thinking about classroom assessment in the middle grades, and challenges the paradigm of standardized tests.

Only 17 % don't think schools place enough emphasis on standardized testing, while just as many (15 %) think the level of emphasis is about right.

The sad reality is most people seem to think gifted students will be «fine» since they are usually capable of passing minimum - competency standardized tests (which is what school is all about, right?).

I spend quite a bit of my time thinking about and researching the topics of high stakes and standardized testing.

The 2015 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are out, and the news isn't good for those who think standardized test scores tell us something significant about student achievement.

But then I think about the state of education right now with the strict grade - level standards, Common Core and standardized testing — teachers really don't have the freedom or time to attend to the divergent thinkers, non-standard learning or much of anything that veers from what they are required to cover in the classroom.

Overall, as Barbara Madeloni, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), put it, while the current system is not working, Bills S. 308, H. 2860 and H. 2844 would provide a «blueprint for us to think imaginatively about what we can do for our schools» without so many millions of teaching hours being devoted to standardized testing.

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

«People are happy about that because it means students won't have to take more standardized tests, and it opens doors for students who thought they'd never be college bound because they wouldn't be able to pass the SAT.

And many of us simultaneously asserted that standardized testing, and the MAP test in particular, is a clumsy form of assessment that often hides more than it reveals about student knowledge — particularly the thought process and how a student arrived at particular answer.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

When thinking about school quality, many people tend to gravitate to a single measure: results on standardized tests.

These folks have never seen a standardized test they didn't think could unlock the secrets of the universe, and they are just not having any questions about silly notions of «validity,» «reliability,» or «appropriateness» of these tests.