Sentence examples for use of standardized Tests from inspiring English sources

PAGE A13 THE LIMITS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS The main event for the more than 5,000 participants at the annual conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling was William R. Fitzsimmons's first public presentation of a study on the use of standardized tests.

The law, the No Child Left Behind Act, calls for greater use of standardized tests and remedial action to raise student achievement and improve school performance.

Mr. Massey once led a protest against the Education Department's use of standardized tests to determine promotion into fourth grade, but Ms. McKenzie has increased the amount of test preparation in the curriculum, teachers and parents say.

It is based on a flawed model that wrongly measures educational quality through the use of standardized tests and then punishes students and teachers for their failure to perform on a statistically impossible level.

Though the use of standardized tests to hold schools accountable had widespread support, officials worried that the legislation tried to replace a smorgasboard of approaches with a one-size-fits-all menu from Mr. Bush's state of Texas.

He said that change alone, which would put the mayor more directly in control of the system, would be more effective than raising teachers' salaries, introducing vouchers, or expanding the use of standardized tests to measure the performance of students.

Against the background of prior interactional work on the challenges of standardization, it seems appropriate to move our research focus to the everyday use of standardized test information and pose the following research questions: What information do the OT and PT test administrator collect from standardized tests?

Teachers' groups have opposed the use of standardized test scores in evaluations.

This is not first time the use of standardized test scores in Texas has been questioned.

He said he'd take on the teachers' unions by introducing choice and increasing the use of standardized testing in public schools.

The state is currently ineligible in part because of a law preventing the use of standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.