Sentences with phrase «use of standardized tests»

The new evaluations are based on a combination of teacher practice and student achievement, which includes the controversial use of standardized test scores.

Increased use of standardized testing has failed to spark broad improvement in student performance or stimulate progress in struggling schools, they say.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

«The current use of standardized testing for pre-K through second grade is extreme and excessive and should have no place in a state that values teaching and learning,» NYSUT president Richard Iannuzzi said in a statement.

It's not that parents and voters have turned against the principle of using of standardized tests to monitor school and student performance: National surveys continue to show 2 - to - 1 support for the practice.

Using any standardized achievement test for a purpose for which it was not designed violates nationally - accepted standards of the testing profession, of the state of Illinois and the U. S. Department of Education, and the guidelines of the test makers themselves (see Attachment 2 — PURE Fact Sheet: «Testing professionals oppose use of standardized test scores as sole or primary measures in high - stakes decisions»).

Still, the article raises the important issues of school closures and the over use of standardized testing — and pointed out that these are movements I have been a part of for many years.

Over-emphasis on standardized tests» importance, their over-administration, and the inappropriate uses of standardized tests have made children, teachers, whole schools and districts feel inferior — most falsely so since these narrowly focused, single - point - in - time tests can not accurately judge the quality of education nor diagnose an underlying condition with any accuracy.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is a national organization that includes the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union and is dedicated to fighting the charter school movement, the broad use of standardized testing and connecting test scores with teacher evaluations.

We believe that the only appropriate use of standardized tests in the public schools of Massachusetts is for diagnostic purposes in order to improve the delivery of instruction.

He said the Democrats did not take other important steps, such as calling for the banning of all high - stakes uses of standardized tests and a reduction in government - mandated testing.

• Using test scores to evaluate teachers is also not a valid use of standardized tests, according to National Academies of Science synthesis of 10 years of research on 15 American test - based incentive programs, finding they demonstrated few good results and a lot of negative unintended consequences.

He listed a series of misguided uses of standardized tests, mentioning a school in Florida that evaluated teachers in kindergarten through second grade based on how students performed in third and fourth grade, and a school in Memphis that evaluated art teachers based on student scores in math and English.

During a recent panel discussion on testing, Rub argued in favor of judicious use of standardized testing — what she called «one of the most controversial and contentious issues in education.»

Dr. King helped broker a fragile peace with the state's main teachers» union to begin those changes last year, but continuing disputes, particularly over the state's proposed use of standardized tests to rate teachers, periodically disrupt it.

In addition to making huge amount of money, TFA is about advocating and lobbying for «education reforms» that include a variety of anti-teacher positions including the excessive use of standardized testing, the expansion of charter schools and efforts to end tenure and seniority.

However, even a quick review of his proposal reveals that his plan to give communities flexibility for only one year — thereby pushing the mandatory use of standardized test scores until after the next gubernatorial election.

The objectives of this study were (a) to establish the profile of PCHP participants and (b) to assess performance outcomes over the course of the program by use of standardized test scores.

The newly elected Chancellor to the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

With the nationwide efforts to raise graduation standards and the increasing use of standardized testing, the idea of basing promotion and graduation decisions on portfolios of students» work has fallen out of fashion as swiftly as slide rules gave way to calculators.

Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama about the inappropriate use of standardized testing and the failings of the corporate education reform movement.

Use of standardized test scores helps address what statisticians call reversion to the mean.

Major advances in measuring student performance and what can be learned from such data are making it feasible to look at teachers» success based on the progress of their students — at least for the teachers of subjects such as reading and math, where there is broad use of standardized tests.

Disregarding research about appropriate uses of standardized tests and with no regard for objections raised by the people affected by the law, the law remains in place and the reauthorization process is far from transparent.

In July, the National Education Association (NEA) launched a national campaign to end the high - stakes use of standardized tests and pushed instead to focus on improving assessments to support student learning and equity.

The bill reflects an unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers who see the Common Core Learning Standards as a federal intrusion on local decision - making and Democratic lawmakers who oppose the use of standardized tests to sanction teachers and schools.

Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

Topics ranged from the use of standardized testing and school co-location, to school closures and the recent gridlock between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the UFT over teacher evaluations.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

The newly elected chancellor of the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt - out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

The recommendations included giving high school students five more years to meet the new standards and banning the use of standardized tests in kindergarten through 2nd grade to evaluate teachers.

At base line and every two months thereafter, her height was measured with the same stadiometer and her body composition was measured by dual - energy x-ray absorptiometry (QDR 1000W, Hologic, Waltham, Mass.) to determine the bone mineral mass and the amounts of fat and lean soft tissue.11 Spontaneous energy intake was measured with the use of a standardized test meal (containing 1670 kcal of energy) given at noon, after the patient had been fasting since breakfast.

The «Bourne Identity» star walked with teachers to protest the use of standardized tests.

Perhaps the most contentious issue in this debate is the use of standardized tests to measure school performance.

Our findings from Florida suggest that the use of standardized testing policies to end social promotion can help low - performing students make modest improvements in reading and substantial improvements in math.

Members are involved in the construction and use of standardized tests; new forms of assessment, including performance - based assessment; program design; and program evaluation.

They include school uniforms, partnerships with corporations, the use of standardized tests to evaluate student progress, some kind of accommodation with the local teachers union (some of which are remarkably tractable, given their reputation to the contrary), and dynamic leadership from the top (despite fascinating differences in leadership style).

Included: Howard Gardner weighs in on the use of standardized testing as a tool for promotion or retention.

The public's commitment to the use of standardized tests to assess students and schools has not declined.

The NAACP is urging colleges to de-emphasize the use of standardized tests in the admissions process.

While this is a reasonable concern when the issue is a contested issue such as the economic policy or the use of standardized testing, I contend that the debate of whether or not to create special policies that target only a certain group identified by their religion does not fall under the same category.

In the midst of her first swing through California, the president - elect of the National Education Association praised the Common Core State Standards and California's measured approach in implementing them but warned about the use of standardized tests.

And then we asked Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, which supports the use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, to make an argument for why kids shouldn't opt out of tests.

In addition to refining research into the use of standardized tests in making admissions decisions, we need to understand better the relationship between testing and the diversity of the college student body.

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.