Sentence examples for use of standardized tests from inspiring English sources

Teachers unions argue that the swift adoption of new academic standards, the use of standardized tests to evaluate teachers' job performance and efforts to overhaul tenure all make teaching a less attractive career for anyone.

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.

In the early grades, I admired places that made thoughtful, diagnostic use of standardized tests to ensure young kids develop core learning skills.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

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.

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.