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Educational Forms, Formal Education

Are test scores enough to assess English learners’ progress?

June 12, 2024

Via: K-12 Dive

English learners’ average scores are up 16 points, from 174 in 1998 — the first year for which data is available — to 190 in 2022. By comparison, scores for students identified as “Not English learners” averaged 222 in 2022 […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Community colleges dropped test scores for class placements amid pandemic: report

January 20, 2021

Via: Education Dive

Many community colleges have been using a variety of other measures as a growing body of research reveals that standardized testing alone frequently misplaces students in developmental courses. That creates serious consequences for learners, who may experience graduation delays or […]


News

New Mexico governor suspends student testing system

January 4, 2019

Via: Education Week

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday set in motion the replacement of the current statewide standardized testing system with a pair of executive orders that also calls for removing those exam results from teacher evaluations. The orders by […]


Education Strategies

How The Culture Of Achievement Is Hurting Our Schools

January 18, 2016

Via: TeachThought

Achievement sounds great doesn’t it? What parent doesn’t want their child to achieve? What teacher doesn’t hope their students achieve at a high level? Of course achievement in general is a good thing but the Culture of Achievement created by […]