Sentences with phrase «traditional assessments like»

However, I had a breakthrough moment with one particular student who had been struggling to demonstrate mastery and understanding with traditional assessments like free response and document - based questions.

Not exact matches

In a traditional classroom setting, the assessment doesn't need to «look» like an exam.

A small risk for an early adopter — such as replacing one traditional quiz with an alternative assessment, or changing one lesson plan to incorporate mobile technology — seems like an enormous risk to others.

Consider having students play one of the games below, and then, to measure learning outcomes, use traditional assessment strategies like matching claims to evidence.

Everyone, from the superintendent to Principal Eaton, emphasizes a belief that the state's assessment tool doesn't work well for online schools like Achieve, where the majority of students are enrolled because they weren't successful in a traditional system, and many are adult students.

Most critics of portfolio assessment say they like the emphasis on demonstrated writing and oral skill, but have seen too many instances in which a refusal to give traditional tests of factual recall leads to charmingly written essays with little concrete information to support their arguments.

Some of these things can be measured in traditional assessments, like for problem - solving, give kids a problem — not an academic problem — one where they're forced to address an issue where there's a goal and an obstacle in the way (which is the operational definition of a problem) and see how they perform.

Large charter sectors in states like Arizona, Colorado, and Florida gave traditional public schools a run for their money in the latest NAEP assessment.

English teacher educators may wish to coordinate other traditional methods - course tasks (like having teacher candidates create their own assessments, research a professional issue like computer grading, or plan instruction that addresses students» cultural / linguistic backgrounds) with SWAP materials in order to allow them to consider the consequences of their own instructional decisions and conceptions of writing and writers.

We apply two main criteria: (a) the fund describes itself or is widely categorized as an alternative strategy (b) in our assessment, it acts like an alternative fund, meaning we can't replicate the returns using traditional strategies.