Sentences with phrase «tracking growth in student learning»

-- To close the data gap — which now handcuffs districts from tracking growth in student learning and improving classroom instruction — states will need to monitor advances in student achievement and identify effective instructional practices.

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This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

Not only would it require gathering evidence of student growth in skill acquisition or conceptual understanding, and the ability to track this evidence longitudinally; it would also require that teachers have a vivid, developmental understanding of «what it means to make progress in an area of learning» (Forster, 2005).

Principals themselves agree almost unanimously on the importance of several specific practices, according to one survey, including keeping track of teachers» professional development needs and monitoring teachers» work in the classroom (83 percent).32 Whether they call it formal evaluation, classroom visits or learning walks, principals intent on promoting growth in both students and adults spend time in classrooms (or ensure that someone who's qualified does), observing and commenting on what's working well and what is not.

His recent research includes the study of how student mobility rates affect the rate of learning growth, the use of surveys of student perceptions in evaluation classroom environments, the effects of homogenous ability grouping and tracking, and the interpretation of value - added test scores.

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Education First cajoled the state leadership in Maryland to commit to overhaul its longitudinal data system, which can not currently link student test data to individual teachers or track the learning growth of an individual student over time.