Commonwealth Council on Childhood Success School Readiness Workgroup: Early Elementary Subgroup Council Members: Steven Staples, Superintendent, Dept of Education (Chair) Dora Wynn, Brunswick County Public Schools Karla

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“Families and Schools – Perfect Partners for Student Success” Governor Terrance R. McAuliffe, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Steven R. Staples and

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on best practices: Some of the issues you’re facing, not only here in Lunenburg, but around the state, other educators are working on as well. We need not address

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on authentic assessments: All things are not assessed best by four-part multiple choice test. There are other ways to assess what students know and we might talk abo

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on college and career readiness: I think it is important that we understand that every student that comes through our doors — hopefully — is going to work. We ju

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on[removed]SOL changes: This past General Assembly, the General Assembly passed — and the governor signed — a bill that reduced the number of SOL tests that wi

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• Psychometrics
• Standardized tests
• Sports science
• Test
• Education
• Educational psychology
• Evaluation

Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on SOL reform: Maybe we can embrace the idea that a single-point-in-time test on a given day is not the only way to assess student proficiency. Perhaps we need multi

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• Psychometrics
• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Statistical inference
• Statistics
• Design of experiments
• Hypothesis testing

Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on accountability: If you are in a school in Virginia, you know all about accountability, you’ve been experiencing it for some time. In fact, I like to remind the

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on college and career readiness: I think it is important that we understand that every student that comes through our doors — hopefully — is going to work. We ju

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staples on authentic assessments: All things are not assessed best by four-part multiple choice test. There are other ways to assess what students know and we might talk abo

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