Sentences with phrase «truly better assessments»

Rather than developing truly better assessments, most states are making only minor revisions, and states with high - stakes tests are making the least changes.

Activists should call for an indefinite moratorium on Common Core tests to allow time for implementation of truly better assessments.

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Sadly, the term evangelistic is used more often in other ways, but in that usage it meant bringing truly good news of God's salvific work in the world against the background of realistic assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.

It's not so much that Tunsil was a bad pass blocker — if you read my breakdown you know he was actually pretty good at it — but I just didn't get to see him block an edge rusher one - on - one enough in four games to be truly comfortable with my assessment of how good or bad he was doing it.

Following his sidekick Sam Swaffield's excellent assessment of Brighton's current season over on the 72, Stef considers an unhappier time for Albion supporters when, less than four years ago, a club legend well and truly blotted his Seagulls copybook.

These and other distinctions mean that assessments that truly measure the Common Core will likely look different from current state tests, necessary as we move from fill - in - the - bubble tests toward more engaging assessments that better mirror good instruction in the classroom.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

We will also discuss the teacher training components of the project, as well as how curriculum - embedded performance assessment helps students acquire and demonstrate the skills needed to be truly college and workplace ready.

At a time when teacher education was truly valued in the state, our joint efforts placed Indiana as one of the front runners in best practices in teacher preparation and the use of performance - based assessments.

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Assessment Task Force, in their report Formative Assessment That Truly Informs Instruction, makes the case that good formative assessment, among other key factors, «includes feedback that is non-evaluative, specific, timely, and related to the learning goals, and that provides opportunities for the student to revise and improve work products and deepen understandings.»

Just like in games, we need to reward our students for their best work and give them multiple formative assessments that allow them to try and fail in a safe space, where mastery is truly valued.

It didn't truly make sense for me until I started learning how to design quality assessments and using the data from those assessments to see how the students performed, as well as how the test design performed.