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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...

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...

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...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

factors that are not within an educators or students control. For example, critics have argued that standardized testing is socio...

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...

Standardized Testing Advantages

scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...

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...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

a factor that makes this assessment method "objective" (Crighton, 2012). However, standardized testing is no longer believed to be...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

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

School Testing and Bias

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

Asthma and Food Allergies

authors found a correlation between the anaphylactic reaction and a history of asthma and atopic dermatitis. There are abou...

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 Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

Are Alternative Assessments Better than Standardized Testing

(ITBS) or the NEWAs (the North West Evaluation Association), individualized assessments that are provided at different times durin...

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 Apparatus and the Accuracy of Psychological Assessments

In five pages this research paper evaluates psychological assessment testing in order to determine whether or not these methods ar...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

In nineteen pages this paper discusses health care services' infrastructure and considers reengineering and quality improvements t...

Test-Taking Skills

considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investi...

Developmental Disabilities' Issues Examined

In six pages this paper discusses guardianship, supplemental benefits, social services, social role valorization, normalization, h...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

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...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

Racial Inferiority Concept

are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...

Shortcomings of Math and Science Textbooks

science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...

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...

Research Proposal for ARRT and ACT Test Correlation

In nine pages a proposed research study of the correlation between these two types of intellectual skills testing is discussed in ...

Coping Strategy and Student Performance

be seen as a positive coping methodology as it relives the stresses that are placing pressure on the student. By understanding t...