Sentences with phrase «through standardized tests of»

How Children Succeed introduced readers to an exciting new body of research showing that the traditional way we measure children's abilities — through standardized tests of their cognitive skills — was missing a crucial dimension: the importance of so - called non-cognitive skills or character strengths, qualities like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism.

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Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of stressed - out students, slogging through hours of homework and blizzards of standardized tests.

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.

The state Board of Regents announced that standardized English and math tests will be conducted over two days instead of three for students in grades three through eight beginning next spring.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

Despite the efforts, parents continue to opt their children out of the Common Core - related third - through eighth - grade standardized tests.

Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia is hoping to contain a movement that led 20 % of students to boycott the third through eighth grade standardized tests last spring.

New York City schools and a handful of districts statewide have used the standardized tests under Common Core for grades 3 through 8 as a factor in promoting students to the next grade.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

He also accused the governor of «demonizing» teachers and «moving down the wrong path» on standardized testing, though Cuomo has recently done an about - face on that issue, most notably calling — through his latest reform task force — for a moratorium on linking test results and teacher performance evaluations.

The Alliance for Quality Education, United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers recently started a petition calling for a ban in New York on standardized testing in pre-K through 2nd grade.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

There will be no changes for standardized tests for 3rd through 8th grade English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics at least for the next couple of years.

Despite the efforts, parents continue to opt their children out of the Common Core - related third through eighth grade standardized tests.

The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

She and others cited Espaillat's work to fund universal prekindergarten, to ban standardized testing in kindergarten through 2nd grade and to ensure public audits of charter schools.

To address this challenge, the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium is creating a genome - and phenome - wide catalog of gene function by characterizing new knockout - mouse strains across diverse biological systems through a broad set of standardized phenotyping tests.

Whether it's an unhappy parent, the pressure of standardized tests, students with behavior challenges, or something personal, staff members go through difficult patches.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

Whether individually or through facilitated professional development, teachers spend a lot of time unpacking the standardized tests and the targeted standards and learning on which they're based.

So how do we, as a country entrenched in an education system that distributes standardized tests and groups students based on chronological age rather than rate of learning, break through its mental barriers and start to embrace — and demand — the science of the individual?

With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their # 2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized test scores.

One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.

However, the only viable way we've found to really gather this sort of information is through the dreaded standardized test.

It is possible to help a beginning English - language learner (ELL) improve so much in a matter of months that he or she can pass the sixth through eighth grade state standardized tests.

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

In the midst of her first swing through California, the president - elect of the National Education Association praised the Common Core State Standards and California's measured approach in implementing them but warned about the use of standardized tests.

Local education decisions traditionally have been the provenance of states and local districts, but Bush led the way for more federal involvement — requiring students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to take standardized tests for school «accountability» purposes.

Linda Hanson, an Arlington School District literacy coach, was taking parents behind the curtain of a new standardized test their children would face April through June.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Large amounts of standardized testing that Ohio's students grind through each year would be cut if legislators allow a few changes proposed by State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria.

On average, the children started out as high achievers but year after year lost ground on the state's standardized tests, according to a Times analysis of scores from the 2002 - 03 through 2008 - 09 school years.

One way of enforcing standards of excellence is through standardized testing, linked to high stakes - such as holding students back until they pass the tests or delaying their graduation.

As explained in a guest blog this year by by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond, these measures use student standardized test scores to track the growth of individual students as they progress through the grades and see how much «value» a teacher has added.

Though testing is not part of our class curriculum, our school is still accountable to show student growth and proficiency through standardized tests.

Last school year, the board approved eliminating standardized summative exams — those that test students» knowledge around the end of the school year — in social studies for all grades, and approved reducing science standardized summative tests from grades three through 11 to just grades four, six and 10.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

New City administers the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), a nationally standardized test of achievement, in 2nd through 5th graTest of Basic Skills (ITBS), a nationally standardized test of achievement, in 2nd through 5th gratest of achievement, in 2nd through 5th grades.

It seems as if some state education bureaucrats and so - called education reformers are trying to «teacher - proof» assessment through the use of standardized tests like PARCC.

This is, she believes, the case with what is probably the most important and far - reaching national policy initiative ever taken, and one that she herself had high hopes for: the No Child Left Behind law, enacted in the administration of President George W. Bush, which essentially forced school systems across the country to teach to standardized tests in grades three through eight.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

Preparing students to be college and career ready through the elimination of instructional time that teachers use to prepare students for college required standardized testing (SAT, ACT) is puzzling, but the taking of instructional time so students can take state mandated standardized tests that claim to measure preparedness for college and career is an exercise in circular logic.

Through more than 20 years of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), we have lived with a uniform definition of accountability, that of a standardized test used to make determinations of student learning and school and district progress.

«I am extremely disappointed in the feds and their insistence on tying teacher evaluations to standardized tests scores,» she told fellow members of the Oregon Education Investment Board, which oversees education from preschool through universities, at a meeting last week.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

Transcripts / Progress Reports Upload report cards and standardized test results (if applicable) from the previous school year through the first semester / trimester of the current school year.

Scenes like this played out across the state on April 17 as standardized testing began — TN Ready (aka TCAPs) for grades 3 through 8 and EOC (end of course) tests for high schoolers.