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Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Primary and Secondary Reading Instruction Changes, Testing, and Higher Accountability

teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Children and Early Formal Educational Instruction

to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...

Literature Review on the Disadvantages of Standardized Testing

up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...

California, the SATS and Problems with Standardized Testing

students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...

Educational Psychology

(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

Testing In Education

or not standardized testing is the best way to obtain information about student performance. As Hughes (1980) points out, there ar...

Instructional Supervision & New Curricula For Raising Academic Standards

by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...

School Testing and Bias

are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

Toulmin Argument/Standardized Testing is a Mistake

This essay argues, using the Toulmin format, that standardized testing is a mistake, and provides sources that support this positi...

Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...

Mathematics Test Anxiety

format and move towards problem solving, which is more interactive and more exciting for students. Mathematics Anxiety and Test A...

Business Decision Research, Z Tests and T Tests

The alternative hypothesis is the opposite, then, that there is a difference between these two populations based on regionality. ...

Customer Satisfaction Action Research

of the first customer survey and training in elevating customer service quality and customer satisfaction. Customers will b...

Assessing Employee Motivation; Research Proposal

management to develop an understanding of factors that may impact on employee performance. The academic approach is interesting, b...

Cons Of Animal Testing

testing as man does, regardless if they are lower on the life chain. IV. SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH The significance of this...

Antibiotic Resistance Treatment Through Placebos and Vancomycin

as the last hope when trying to cure a bacterial disease" (Introduction to Vancomycin: a history, 2002). Like most antibiotics,...

Class Size Effect/A Research Proposal

class size. Also, the student may want to include literature about class size theories that do not necessarily emerge from researc...

Research Proposal on CPI and the Five Factor Personality Model

known as the NEO Personality Inventory. This was put forward by Costa and McCrae (1985). This is a measure of five personality tra...

Research Proposal Annotated Outline

of people who will be in a position to show leadership ability, as this is the characteristic being measured. 7. A control group ...

Forecasting Exchange Rates Through Proposed Variables and Testing Models

In thirty five pages exchange rates and forecasting them through proposed variables and testing models are the topics of this rese...

High School Students and Relationship Between Aggression and Poor Grades Research Proposal

In five pages this research study proposal seeks to investigate if there is any relationship between low grades and student aggres...

Are Project Management Skills Universal or Specific To Different Industries?

a project management to be a good project manager. 1.1 The Question The question that this paper will seek to answer is to whe...

Proposal for Research on Changing Organizational Culture

The writer presents an outline of a research proposal on a form provided b the student. The research is to examine and assess the...