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Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Standardized Testing Advantages

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

Statistics Questions and a Dissertation Plan

However, even in a growth industry there is the need for any company to compete. Michael Porter has identified two sources of comp...

Test-Taking Skills

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

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,...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

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...

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...

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 ...

Developmental Disabilities' Issues Examined

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

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...

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 ...

Theory and the Personality Test Known as the Enneagram

In fifty pages this graduate level thesis focuses upon the controversial Enneagram personality test, includes a literature review,...

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...

Univeristy of Guam and Conversion of Personal Services to Human Resources

In thirty pages the University of Guam is used in an example of a research project that converts personnel to human resources with...

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 ...

Relations Between Jews and African Americans

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the views on relations between African Americans and Jews based upon the contrastin...

Ongoing Debate Regarding IQ Tests

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

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...

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...

Examination of Parkinson's Disease Research Proposal

In seven pages a discussion of treatment methodologies for patients with Parkinson's Disease is presented including a brief litera...