Sentences with phrase «valid assessment systems»

State Collaboratives on Assessment & Student Standards (SCASS) strives to develop and implement high standards and valid assessment systems that maximize educational achievement for all children.

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Comprehensive Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts Kindergarten Entry Assessment (MKEA) initiative was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students using a valid and reliable formative assessment tool.

The 2015 field test of a prototype established that the Institute's model of assessment of principals» work is both valid and reliable, critical for any certification system and achieves the goals of being customisable and manageable.

But the full - time virtual charter schools could set up the system in a voluntary way where they all use the same assessments that create valid and reliable comparisons.

Valid, reliable, authentic, on - demand, and independent assessments are critical to moving to a system based on student learning outcomes.

Such systems, if organized around direct assessments of teacher and classroom quality, based on strong and valid metrics and tied to new or existing incentive systems, could be a cost - effective means of producing real change for teachers and children.

As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education, district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and reliable assessment tools to measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.

We seek systems where assessments can be effective at supporting students, systems where assessments are valid, reliable and fair.

The pursuit of high - quality principal assessment reached a milestone in 2006 with the development of the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education, or VAL - ED, a research - validated process created by a team from Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania, and supported by Wallace as an effort to address the lack of valid and reliable principal evaluation systems.

The Field Test is a trial run of the assessment system that helps ensure the assessments are valid, reliable, and fair for all students.

- Shape the design, construction, and application of assessment systems so they are valid and appropriate for an increasingly diverse student population.

SBAC intends to be a system of valid, reliable, and fair next - generation assessments in English language arts / literacy (ELA / literacy) and mathematics for grades 3 - 8 and 11.

To ensure that the results of assessments are both valid and reliable, teachers should consider using a simple data - entry system to track student progress toward learning goals.

For example, high scores on classroom observations rubrics and content knowledge assessments should be correlated with high value - added scores, so the overall evaluation system provides a valid and reliable tool for measuring effective teaching.

They need to have systems and structures in place that advance teaching teams to design and implement instruction, based on 21st century skills, developing reliable and valid assessments that cultivate lifelong learning.

For the assessment system as a whole, PARCC is committed to ensuring that all participating students, including students with disabilities, English learners, and English learners with disabilities, are able to engage in a meaningful and appropriate manner so valid results can be obtained for all students.

Based on rigorous research reviewed by the National Center on RTI at the American Institutes for Research, the authors highlight several recommendations for implementing RTI with fidelity: 1) Institute a continuum of instructional supports for students through a multi-level prevention system, including primary prevention through high quality core instruction in the classroom, secondary prevention through supplementary interventions of moderate intensity for students most at risk, and tertiary prevention through individualized interventions for those who do not respond to secondary prevention approaches; 2) employ universal screening through brief, valid and reliable assessments; and 3) monitor student progress using research - based assessment tools.

«We are thrilled to welcome Illinois to our efforts to create a valid and meaningful assessment system for students with significant cognitive disabilities,» said Neal Kingston, DLM project director and CETE co-director.

I might point out two conundrums re our API system: (1) Re composition of an API, while many folks (including me) support a reduction in weight for assessment data contributing to an API, the problem is finding or developing valid and reliable measures to contribute to an API to replace the current assessment data weights.

The system should be valid for English learners including assessing students in their native language (based on updated language arts standards) and using English Language Proficiency assessment appropriately.

Comprehensive Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts Kindergarten Entry Assessment (MKEA) initiative was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students using a valid and reliable formative assessment tool.

The attachment system is a composite paradigm for understanding relationship processes, traditionally assessed by valid and reliable interview, projective, or self - report measures (Ravitz et al., 2010), but with a limited ecological validity in the assessment of real attachment behaviors.