Sentences with phrase «to evaluate student achievement»

His primary responsibility was setting the provincial curriculum and evaluating student achievement relative to provincial standards.

These value - added benefits to test administrators and support staff dramatically reduce the investment of time and energy when evaluating student achievement.

Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says is a resource from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Regional Education laboratory that looks at approaches to alternative methods of evaluating student achievement in order to measure teacher performance.

Indeed, NAS officials» reaction to the 1999 American Institutes of Research (AIR) study An Educator's Guide to Schoolwide Reform would reveal an organization that had not come to terms with the importance of evaluating student achievement in the reform process.

Montera's Academic Performance Index — the state's primary metric for evaluating student achievement — had increased by 94 points in the previous three years, with the largest gain coming from black students.

Hughes distributed to board members a thick packet that outlined the role medical instruction plays in every subject taught at the school, as well as how teachers and administrators go about evaluating student achievement.

In the upper grades, assessments may continue to include observations of student growth but may focus increasingly on the products of student learning, using a range of projects, performances, and exhibitions to evaluate student achievement according to well - formed criteria that are consistent with actual performance in that field (Wiggins, 1989b).

This paper contributes to the nascent literature on school closures by evaluating student achievement and mobility outcomes in a large - scale restructuring effort in Washington, D.C. in which 32 elementary and middle school campuses were closed or consolidated in the summer of 2008.

«In order to effectively evaluate student achievement in Denver, we must start by taking a hard look at the data,» said Chris Watney, President and CEO of the Colorado Children's Campaign.

A few comments: 1) There is no 100 % perfect way to evaluate student achievement in a uniform national program.

Second, the Lubienskis» own writing indicates that the math tests they used to evaluate student achievement are biased in favor of public schools.

Together we are able to support an ongoing in - house research program using Item Response Theory procedures and other state - of - the - art statistical techniques to establish the psychometric properties of items and assessments as well as to evaluate student achievement and growth.

Reliability and validity are features of assessments that should be considered when selecting and using them to evaluate student achievement.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

In recent education reform history, judging teacher evaluations has become as much an issue as how to evaluate student achievement.

While any grade above «Needs Improvement» is sufficient to pass the grade, officials with the state Department of Education look at the proportion who score «Good» or «Excellent» to evaluate student achievement.

We evaluated student achievement in terms of gains Edison students made relative to comparison groups, as opposed to Edison's preference for evaluating gains made by schools relative to themselves.»