Sentences with phrase «years about standardized test»

These are some of the things I've heard teachers say over the years about standardized test scores and the pressures surrounding student performance:

Not exact matches

Some of these tests were the standardized tests that the states or districts re-use each year, and the teachers were worried about kids cheating — sharing questions and answers with next year's students.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

It led to a boycott movement for the third - through eighth - grade standardized tests that resulted in about one - fifth of students opting out last year.

Similarly, 27 percent oppose basing decisions about teacher tenure on how well students progress on standardized tests, nearly double the 14 percent opposed to the idea one year ago.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

Over the years, developers of standardized achievement tests have learned that if they can link students» success on a question to students» socioeconomic status (SES), then about half of the test takers usually answer that item correctly.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

«If you go back 40 to 50 years ago to the time when standardized testing was becoming very common in America's schools, the people who designed these tests were adamant about their appropriate use.

Kids need to score above the 97th percentile on a standardized test in order to enter the admissions lottery and, every year, about two - thirds of those who qualify are shut out.

Yes, that standardized testing data can be useful; however, we teachers spend the entire year collecting all sorts of immediate and valuable information about students that informs and influences how we teach, as well as where and what we review, readjust, and reteach.

Or it could simply be low motivation, since many students never hear about their standardized test results from previous years?

She claims that with all the concern about standardized tests at the end of the year, many teachers forget that students need to know what they are working towards.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

With word that some parents are already organizing on social media about efforts to have their children «opt - out» of the standardized tests in the coming school year, Cuomo released a statement Thursday saying that while he agrees with the goal of Common Core standards, he believes the implementation by the NYS Education Department has been «deeply flawed.»

Last year only about 40 % of students scored proficient or above in reading on the state standardized test, but 99.5 % of teachers are rated satisfactory.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

Krystal Hardy, principal of Sylvanie Williams College Prep about the 14 standardized tests some students at her school take each year

While the teachers, districts, and the folks in Sacramento all have the luxury of five years (as Michael Kirst likes to say) to figure things out with Common Core and the new wave of standardized tests, what about the 6 + million students in school right now?

With the second half of the school year in full - swing, many educators are starting to think about preparing their students for standardized testing.

The dozen educators who stood trial, including five teachers and a principal, were indicted in 2013 after years of questions about how Atlanta students had substantially improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, a standardized examination given throughout Georgia.

According to this year's standardized test results, statewide nearly 10 percent of English learners met or exceeded the English language arts standards, and about 9 percent did so in math.

President Obama has now succumbed to the firestorm in opposition to standardized and «high stakes» testing that has swept the country over the past several years, even picking up on the talking points — «Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble».

Student performance as measured on standardized tests has improved about 5 percent a year since the school opened, D'Avignon said.

The survey asked a nationally representative sample of Americans about the state of education and found that between May and June 2016 — over a year after news accounts about parents» opting their children out of school tests became commonplace — the public's commitment to the use of standardized tests to assess students and schools remains firm.

Obsessive reflection about what happened in school yesterday, last week or last year, coupled with the never ending demands of PLC meetings, standardized testing prep and daily lesson planning can crush even the strongest educational leaders.

Yet when compared with this year's ISTEP +, Wyoming's 2010 PAWS experience raises many of the same questions about the future of online standardized testing — in part, because the problems students experienced were the same.

It is my opinion after spending about 40 years teaching elementary school (K — 5th grade in rural, urban, and suburban schools) that standardized testing is a waste of time and resources for many reasons, one of which is that they do not test what you want to know about a child.

Each year educators raise concerns about the limitations of standardized testing and the downside of «teaching to the test» while policymakers and commentators discuss and pontificate about the «shockingly poor results.»

will recall that over the past year I have written numerous pieces about Connecticut's charter schools and how they are «creaming off the best students» so that they can make it appear that they do a better job when it comes to getting standardized test scores up.

People may disagree with these parents about the value of giving dozens of standardized tests every year to children as young as 4 or 5.

After 15 years of mandated testing under the No Child Left Behind Law, what do standardized test scores actually tell us about school and teacher quality?

About 75 percent of her students achieved scores on last year's state standardized test that put them in the proficient or advanced categories, she said.

Concerns about whether students have to take too many standardized tests have been raised for years.

TRENTON — New Jersey's public school students racked up slightly higher test scores in most grades in the 2010 - 11 school year, despite Gov. Chris Christie's cutting about $ 1 billion in state aid to schools that year, according to standardized test results released today by the state Board of Education.

The Council of the Great City Schools just released a study of the nation's 66 largest school districts that revealed that students spend approximately 20 - 25 hours per school year taking these standardized tests, which amounts to 2.3 % of classroom time for the average 8th grader who will take about 112 of them between PreK and 12th grade, approximately 8 per year.

Eight studies that tracked the academic achievement of students for an average of 3.75 years after a social and emotional learning program found that participants performed about 13 percentage points higher in grades and standardized test scores than their peers, according to a 2017 overview of 82 social and emotional studies by researchers affiliated with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.