Sentences with phrase «too narrow a measure»

And when the tests are too narrow a measure or aren't properly aligned to standards, they provide little concrete information that teachers and schools can use to improve teaching and learning for individual students.

And when the tests are too narrow a measure or aren't properly aligned to standards, they provide little concrete information teachers and schools can use to improve teaching and learning for individual students.

Not exact matches

My be too wide to maneuver through store aisles, crowed places, narrow sidewalks or some doorways (Measure before purchasing.)

Assessment focuses on shifting from too narrow measurement of skills in the past to measuring what truly matters today.

Critics say that using annual state test scores to rate teachers is too small and narrow a measure and that results fluctuate so much a teacher easily can go from excellent to failure in a year.

Even though our test scores were rising in all academic areas these tests measure only a narrow band of knowledge, a band far too narrow to prepare students for the real future.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

He said the way schools are measured at the moment is «too narrow» with too much emphasis on the «narrow achievements» of individual schools.

He said there was a fear that accountability measures at the end of the Foundation Phase - which aimed for a less formal learning approach - were inhibiting the ability of schools «to be true to its principles, narrowing the focus too much, too soon».

Under NCLB - era accountability, too much focus was placed on a single measure (student assessment), casting a spotlight on too narrow a band of students (low - performing students near proficiency) rather than sparking higher performance by all students.

It's compact, too — the eReader Touch Edition is the same height as the Nook, but it measures a half - inch narrower, and a smidgen (0.07) of an inch less deep.

In fairness, there remains considerable uncertainty in aerosol effects, but if there will be real progress in narrowing the credible range for climate sensitivity, it has to come from reducing the still too wide uncertainty in aerosol effects, not from flogging climate models which assume aerosol offsets inconsistent with the best available measured effects.

So just focusing on election «fake news» risks being too narrow to effectively combat state - level disinformation, unless combined with other measures.