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The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Raymond Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire

In eight pages this questionnaire is examined in terms of the test, its uses, completion time, and assessment implications for the...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

Adjective Checklist for Personality Evaluation

In six pages this paper provides a personality evaluation adjective checklist test which includes a general overview of the text a...

2 Properties Best Use and Highest Real Estate Appraisal Analysis

house is the neighborhood "eyesore" but occupies two of the largest lots in the neighborhood. The neighborhood currently is...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Are IQ Tests Useful

The most controversial construct in psychology is intelligence and is complementary practice, intelligence testing. This essay pro...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Educational Psychology

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

Testing In Education

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

The Effects and Impact of Technology on Standardized Test Scores: A Literature Review

including the SATs, the scholastic aptitude tests, which produce both math and written language skill subtest assessments (CEOFor...

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...

A Research Proposal on Standardized Testing

examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...

Curriculum and Impact of Standardized Tests

school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...

Learning Disabilities and Standardized Testing

understood that the education system of the nation is perhaps less than adequate as many children seem to leave high school with a...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Test Scores

In five pages this paper discusses decision making, problem solving, and reading score decreasing as measured by the CTBS standard...

Higher Education and Standardized Testing Biases

In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...

Ongoing Debate Regarding IQ Tests

In five pages this paper examines the continuing controversy that surrounds the practice of standardized IQ testing. Four sources...

Standardized State Educational Testing Issues Confronting a High School Principal

In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...

Academic Success and Standardized Testing

will be presented the questions in the same manner as other tests given by classroom teachers. The Multiple Choice questions will ...