Sentences with phrase «unreliable evaluations of students»

High - Stakes Testing: Excessive reliance on standardized exams narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

PAA opposes excessive reliance on standardized exams, which narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

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The legal action taken by these seven Florida educators will undoubtedly add to the growing momentum against misguided accountability systems that rob students of actual learning and tangle up teachers» performance evaluations with unreliable test scores.

There is a large body of growing evidence, however, that suggests these evaluation models are unreliable at identifying teachers who are actually good at getting students to learn the things they should be learning.

TCTA has consistently opposed attempts to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores based on the weight of research showing that using student test performance to evaluate teacher performance is invalid, unreliable and unfair.

Most importantly, Dr. Darling - Hammond states that evaluation should include evidence of student learning but from sources other than standardized tests, and she rejects growth measures such as SGPs and Value - Added Models because of the ever increasing research base that says they are unreliable and create poor incentives in education.

Assessment experts say that the method of using student standardized scores to gauge a teacher's effectiveness is unreliable, but reformers still insist on using this «value - added» method of evaluation.