Sentences with phrase «way beyond test scores»

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It'll boost their reading scores; prepare them to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond, where U.S. test scores (and other metrics) crash; and equalize opportunity in American society in ways that no anti-poverty or compensatory education program can possibly do.

In some ways, the push for tracking chronic absenteeism benefitted from timing, given the increased emphasis on education data and the ESSA's commitment to going beyond test scores to measure school success.

It's also worth noting that there are many additional ways to measure student outcomes and success beyond test scores, which most parents rank low when it comes to choosing schools for their children.

They can also help the entire learning community find ways to motivate and reward students for accomplishments beyond grades or test scores.

Further, the findings highlight the importance of principal preparation programs beyond increasing student test scores (currently a common way to evaluate programs» efficacy); the ideas about what it means to be an instructional leader will likely permeate graduates» conceptions and associated practices with some permanence.

Around that table, we were devising a better way to measure success for all kids, focused not on the inputs, but on the outcomes — and outcomes beyond just test scores.

Apparently relying on standardized test scores that are influenced by economic and social factors beyond a teacher's control are deemed the best way to evaluate an individual teacher....

Jack Schneider is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, Mass., the director of research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment and the author of the soon - to - be-published «Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality.»

«We think it's a much more honest, much more comprehensive, much more holistic [measure] that goes way beyond an artificial focus on one test score,» Duncan said.

Only with a deep understanding of student learning — one that goes beyond the reading of a standardized test score — can teachers alter their practice in ways that open up new and targeted opportunities for their students to achieve academic success.

Although still nascent in some cases, early childhood instructional measures can provide states ways to measure results in the classroom beyond test scores.

NAESP is always looking for ways to support principals in developing the leadership qualities that can help make them, and their entire school communities, more focused on accountability to the whole child — beyond test scores.

Beyond what test - scores may reveal about content learning, students also learn lessons that each teacher transmits, embedded in the classroom environment — ways to process information, knowing when to ask questions, knowing how to sit and act attentive.

Beyond test scores, here are new ways states are tracking school success is from The PBS News Hour.

How do we measure success in a way that goes beyond test scores and academic assessments and focuses on the realization of human potential?