Sentences with phrase «to teach to the test»

It will take more long - term studies of the impact of teaching to test such theories.

Critics also fear that when a moratorium on using the test results for teacher evaluations ends, teachers who don't teach to the test will be penalized.

The excessive testing has narrowed curricula as many teachers teach to the tests.

It is basically a handbook for teaching to the test.

I think the more opportunities teachers have to collaborate and share expectations and goals, the more schools can move away from teaching to the test.

While studies find a negative relationship between test preparation and instructional quality, some experts believe that concerns about teaching to the test may be exaggerated.

I don't disagree with testing children but I strongly disagree with teaching to the test.

In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn.

Sadly, fearful educators understandably feel driven to teach to the test instead of working to ensure that students meet genuine academic standards (and letting the test results follow naturally).

In addition, the task force concluded that the high - stakes exams encouraged teaching to the test, were too long, and were not transparent.

Does the accountability movement in schools force teachers to spend more time teaching to the test?

This school teaches to the test and no more.

But if that's all you do is just teach to the test what kind of education are the students getting.

Teachers begin teaching to the test simply to raise scores, often at the expense of more meaningful learning activities.

Ah, more teaching to the test, more narrowing the curriculum.

I've been doing this for a long time and despite current research, schools are still teaching to the test.

Studies have shown this model to be incredibly effective as compared to models that embrace the «kill and drill» teaching to the test methodology.

My mother taught me to test the bath water with my elbow because you get a true sense of the temp.

This is why we can not solely teach to tests.

This might be the reality, but the truth is, you will never be happy teaching to a test — nor will you find much success.

«Right now there are a lot of schools and a lot of teachers that are literally teaching to the test,» she said.

Teaching to the test involves a narrow focus on the specific skills and content covered by the test, as well as considerable time spent on practice tests and test - taking strategies.

Other recent studies have explored teaching to the test from the perspective of the quality of the tests themselves.

Teaching to the test causes score gains that may not represent actual improvements in learning.

I think there is room for caring and sharing in the classroom, even with all the darn teaching to the test that is required.

In schools where they teach computer science, they may well be teaching to the test also.

Additionally, when asked how the use of student growth measures has affected their own instruction, the most common response is increase of teaching to the test.

We don't teach to the test, we teach to the child.

Teachers unions and some education experts have argued that value - added is an unreliable measure that encourages teaching to the test.

How do we keep from teaching to the tests?

As Governor Malloy said himself... He doesn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores go up.

The CT Mirror piece also mentions Malloy's anti-teacher, anti-public education reform initiatives although it doesn't contain Malloy's equally famous comment that he didn't mind teaching to the test as long as the test scores went up.

Where US schools were encouraged to compete against other government - funded schools, for instance, the institutions started teaching to the test in order to improve their rankings.

The English education system is blighted by teaching to the test.

Teaching to the test means even skills are not truely evidenced in such a false situation.

Following its release Vicki Phillips, the head of education at the Gates Foundation, told the New York Times: «Teaching to the test makes your students do worse on the tests.»

For example, do teachers who raise test scores also improve their students» outcomes in adulthood or are they simply better at teaching to the test?

Teachers, under enormous pressure, are forced to teach to the tests rather than, you know, teach critical thinking or creative expression; and education is reduced to something rote, linear and boring.

Obama's — and the Education Department's — claim that NCLB will diminish teaching to the test because it will allow states to develop their own school accountability systems that measure students» growth, instead of the raw proficiency scores.

The evidence from Florida also suggests that the gains produced by such an accountability system are real indicators of improvement in learning, and not simply teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

Teaching to test became a reality.

As the Courant knows, Dan Malloy and the «education reformers» have put an inordinate weight on the role of standardized testing (i.e. his comment that he supports teaching to the test so the test scores go up).

Supporters» arguments of better prepared students, emphasis on critical thinking and less teaching to the test were favored by a two - to - one margin.