Sentences with phrase «use of multiple measures»

Training will establish foundational assessment literacy knowledge, provide opportunities for hands - on practice in use of multiple measures of learning, and develop teacher skills for formative practice.

In California, we believe parents, as educated consumers and advocates for their children, want to know more about how public schools are performing, and that policymakers should ensure the public has the necessary tools to make good use of multiple measures.

Recently - passed laws in California and Texas have yet to take full effect, and new bills have been introduced in additional states (e.g., Minnesota's S.F. 302, introduced in 2017, seeks to minimize remediation via use of multiple measures and co-requisite supports).

The goal of a balanced assessment system is to ensure that all assessment users have access to the data they want when they need it, which in turn directly serves the effective use of multiple measures.

Assessment literacy is the foundation for a system that can take advantage of a wider use of multiple measures.

It is vitally important for educators at all levels to invest time and energy when it comes to designing your assessment system that makes use of multiple measures.

The use of multiple measures not only spreads the risk but also provides opportunities to detect manipulation or gaming.

In A New Era for Educational Assessment, Conley argues that the time is ripe for a major shift in educational assessment, from an overreliance on standardized tests of math and reading, which tell us little about college and career readiness, to the use of multiple measures to gauge progress in learning the full range of content and skills that truly matter after high school.

The bill encourages a smarter approach to testing by moving away from a sole focus on standardized tests by allowing for the use of multiple measures of student learning and progress to make school accountability decisions.

ASCD supports the use of multiple measures in assessment systems that are

Accuracy is only a starting point, however, for understanding how well the use of multiple measures will work in practice.

Although it may seem as though having more assessments will mean we are more accurately estimating student achievement, the use of multiple measures does not, by itself, translate into high - quality evidence.

Effectively planning for the use of multiple measures means providing assessment balance throughout these three levels, meeting student, teacher, and district information needs.

From that foundation we can develop coordinated plans for the use of multiple measures, taking advantage of dependable data generated at every level of assessment.

As a «big picture» beginning point in planning for the use of multiple measures, assessors need to consider each assessment level in light of four key questions, along with their formative and summative applications1:

The use of multiple measures — administrator observation, school and student value - added measures, and student feedback on teachers — helps build confidence in the fairness and thoroughness of the system because they are an acknowledgment of the complexities and nuances of effective teaching.

Research from respected institutions has been collected to support the use of multiple measures for career readiness indicators.

The bill would make several changes to teacher evaluations, including requiring more frequent performance reviews, more training for evaluators and the use of multiple measures of student academic progress — which could include test scores but would not require them, as current state law does.

Rather, the National Forum encourages diverse approaches to curriculum and instruction and supports the use of multiple measures to make decisions about a student's progress.

Core to College Evaluation: Exploring the Use of Multiple Measures for Placement into College - Level Courses

Second, the use of multiple measures continues to be sparse and unsystematic.

As part of the Common Assessment Initiative, over the next several years, community colleges will begin to use a common placement test, set locally determined cut - off scores, and enhance their use of multiple measures.

Instead, the use of multiple measures of effectiveness for layoff decisions holds promise for softening the detrimental effect of layoffs.

In fact, Title I of the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act required the use of multiple measures to judge the performance of schools, and that language carried over unchanged, in 2001, to No Child Left Behind (NCLB):