Heuristic evaluation

YSCP Assessment Policy Our Philosophy: YSCP provides a rigor program of instruction guided by the aims and objectives of the Middle Years Programme as well as aligning with Pennsylvania state standards.Its program is dedicated to providing each learner with a balanced program by which students can acquire knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for their future life. To this end, students are given the opportunity to develop higher-order thinking skills in various disciplines along with…

The second book assigned to me for my capstone leadership book is Leading with data: Pathways to improve your school. This topic is not a new subject to me with having read about data for several classes here at ACE. Data has never been so relevant in the field of education. Data is important to make changes on campus or illustrate results that must essential for schools to stay in operation. Every year schools look at data and decide what areas they need to improve upon if they want to make…

Proposed Action The literature analysis presents possible solutions addressing how PLC’s focused on assessment data can affect student achievement. These solutions were considered in relations to a cyber environment and three were selected for the research study. These solutions include: 1) teachers meeting regularly with content-based PLC groups, 2) a focus on the D3M framework in the PLC environment to drive instructional decisions, and 3) teachers developing shared goals to improve student…

When people hear the word Standardized test they typically think of a very long test that is probably not worth taking. In this generation, testing has become a more common to test a child’s academic levels. When teachers are told to prepare kids for these standardized tests they teach to the test, not to other knowledge children might need to know. Testing in general is used to show what knowledge a person has learned throughout a period of time. In most cases testing is pushed upon children.…

A wise man by the name of Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” As a junior in high school who has taken numerous standardized tests since elementary school, I am very perturbed in how fair or just standardized testing is. With all the controversy going on today about standardized testing, what society fails to realize is that standardized tests are neither fair nor…

Standardized Testing A standardized test is any test that is administered and scored following a predetermined standard procedure. There are two main types of standardized tests: proficiency tests and achievement tests. Standardized tests predict how well students perform at any subsequent educational level or space. The most common examples are the SAT and the ACT, which attempt to predict how well secondary students will perform in college. However, when assessing the effectiveness of a school…

The growth of grade inflation has become a nationwide pandemic and is rapidly growing as American’s continue to disregard this problem. The virus has spread to colleges including Harvard and Stanford like white blood cells drawn to an infection. Compared to other countries, the United States consistently ranks lower than foreign countries on international tests. Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein extracted data from average national test scores to examine the claim of Americans scoring the…

disabilities in your classroom or school setting. Determine which alternate assessment is a better measure of student achievement. Include at least 5 scholarly references to support your claims Florida schools are based off of certain standards. Each child has to master these standards, in order to be “proficient” in the skill taught. Most students, will have no problem mastering the standards required by the state of Florida. However, some students, especially those who are special needs, or…

Standardized Testing Education can defined as a system that enables people to learn and acquire the skills they need to lead successful lives. In America, this definition appears to be changing rapidly as time goes by. Today’s students are given constant standardized tests, which is very different from students in the past. The tests are having a negative impact on the education of students in America because critical thinking skills and real life skills are not being taught, teachers are…

Keywords: Equity, Standardized Assessment, Evaluation Paper Description: This quantitative study uses a least-squares regression model to determine the predictive power of socio-economic factors on district-level student achievement on new, Common Core-aligned standardized assessments. We posit that educators may use our methodology and model to control for socio-economic factors, and more equitably compare school district performance. Purpose We used a least-squares regression model to…