Sentence examples for use of standardized testing from inspiring English sources

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

Dr. Librera's proposals come as a growing number of schools across the country protest the use of standardized testing, saying it limits creativity in the classroom and forces schools to focus narrowly on the material in the tests.

"The result is classrooms that are little more than test-coaching factories," said Robert A. Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest, an advocacy group that opposes the broad use of standardized testing.

The 28 schools are part of a growing movement of schools across the country that have protested the use of standardized testing, saying it forces them to abandon creative and stimulating lessons to focus on material in the tests.

"The 10-year trend shows math scores steadily rising and critical reading scores moderately rising until the new test was introduced, and suddenly they plunged," said Robert Schaeffer, public education director for FairTest, which opposes the broad use of standardized testing.

A front-page article on Thursday about a federal commission that is exploring the use of standardized testing in colleges and universities omitted part of the name of an organization whose president opposes the use of a single test for all higher education.

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.

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.

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