Sentences with phrase «upon student test scores»

In fact, the only people to «benefit» from this system are private test designers like Pearson, who are being handed not just lucrative contracts but also terabytes of data to mine for new products, and advocates of firing as many teachers as possible based upon student test scores.

The legislation «evolved» with hard work by AEA from an original mandate that 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based upon student test scores, Instead, the key features of the new bill include what AEA called «a statewide uniform system of teacher evaluation (beginning in the 2014 - 15 school year) that emphasizes quality assurance and teacher growth»....

For example, it is impossible to measure a music teacher or an art teacher based upon student test scores on music and art.

In New York State, for example, 40 percent of teachers» yearly evaluations will be based upon student test scores (New York Governor's Press Office 2012).

Attempts to address teacher evaluation have lead to a dependency upon student test scores.

Not exact matches

The NEA analysis of the proposed legislation claimed it favored «1) establishing a teacher evaluation system using gains in student test scores; 2) allowing «community stakeholders» to have a role in designing teacher evaluation systems; and 3) providing merit pay for teachers based upon gains in student test scores.»

Since we can totally before the school year predict the expected test scores of students based upon previous test score and effective teachers we can simply weed out all the students that would fail if they were assigned in a class with an effective teacher.

It is based upon the idea of being able to predict test scores for students.

But since then, the high - stakes testing movement has blown up: with increasing frequency, student scores on standardized exams are tied to teacher, school, and district evaluations, upon which rewards and punishments are meted out.

Because student achievement levels vary upon entry across schools, student growth measures are better measures of the impact of a school on student learning than a proficiency rate or average scale test score.

Given the growing understanding that value added measures (VAMs) of teacher effectiveness rely upon tests not designed to detect teacher input, are highly unstable, and can not account for teacher impact on variability among student scores, it is quite apt that Dr. Audrey Amrein - Beardsley of Arizona State University and a leading researcher on value - added measures, described the proposal as going from «bad to idiotic.»

While the NAEP tracks socioeconomic data, it does not weight test scores based upon a student's socioeconomic background.

«From the [New York] study, simply saying we're going to pay people based upon kids» test scores does not work to move student achievement.

Although the student's detailed score will be mailed to them, they will receive a preliminary notification as to whether they have passed or failed the test upon their completion of the examination.

«Third, test scores are currently important factors in law school rankings calculations, which are heavily relied upon by students in deciding where to attend.