The commissioner, Richard J. Condon, attributed the rise both to the expansion of the school system — its budget has more than doubled, to $24 billion from $11.5 billion when he took office in 2002, and the number of schools has grown to 1,700 from 1,200 — and to the higher stakes attached to standardized tests and classroom grades.
Teachers' expectations of change due to the use of video games, their technological transfer, and handling of classroom dynamics, were assessed through ad hoc tests and classroom observations.
The videos, financed by a $900,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were developed as a complement to Washington's evaluation system, known as Impact, in which teachers are judged on student test scores and classroom observations.
This article examines the concept and definitions of fairness in relation to a broad understanding of assessment: tests, examinations, and classroom evaluation of student performance (teacher assessment in the United Kingdom).
The first question offers three choices: teacher pay based solely on statewide tests; pay based on both statewide tests and administrative classroom observations, and pay based solely on administrative classroom observations.
On an individual level, some students and parents have noticed a change — more standardized tests and more classroom and homework time devoted to preparation for them.
A Crash Program It was crunch time at Hylton High: 10 minutes until the bell, two weeks before state standardized tests, and a classroom full of blank stares suggesting that Ms. Cain still had a lot of history to cover to get her students ready.
If we conducted both the pre- and post-tests in the same class session, the subjects would have a week interval between the pre-test and the classroom lecture because of the schedule restriction.
Implications of the results for both test task development and classroom task design are discussed.
A study released last month by LaRue Allen, a New York University professor, found that 135 Long Island kindergarteners from low-income families who went through the program performed as well as their middle-class peers in tests measuring early literacy and classroom readiness.
