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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 ...


contend with the increasing role that high-stakes testing plays in the decisions they make about what to teach and how to teach it...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

High Stakes Testing

high-stakes testing and the states accountability systems for students with disabilities. The extensive investigation conducted b...

Racial Conflict, Diversity, and Standardized Testing

their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to empl...

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...

The High Stakes Game of the Toy Industry

A 20 page expose on the toy industry in the U.S. This paper reviews Sidney Stern and Ted Schoenhaus' Toyland The High-Stakes Game...

The Unanticipated Impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act

Act introduces as many problems into the educational arena as it does solutions. Two of the more controversial of its provision...

Mathematics Test Anxiety

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

Need for CTE Education

3. If true, what is the worth of the programs, such as CTE, being dropped? Chapter 2 : Literature Review Various educational data...

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking And Language

That such testing procedures expect the same scholastic performance from all students no matter their cultural or academic backgro...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

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

How Standardized Testing Damages Education

system that divides the student population rather than accurately and fairly evaluates it (Phillips 52). One of the most se...

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...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

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...

Coronary Angiography

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

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...

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The Basics of Hypothesis Testing

level the null hypothesis is rejected, so the hypothesis can be said as proven that they level of significance. There are a numb...

Using T-Tests and Excel

The paper presents results based on data supplied by the student. Two hypothesis tests are presented, with the excel output, to sh...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

Auditory Discrimination Tests

subject tested with the presentation of a standardized list of monosyllable words from a predefined list, with the words played th...

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...

Psychometric Case Studies

Mass weekly. He stated that he thinks he was and is a good parent. He has a BA in engineering and was employed as an aerospace wo...

Has the Migration of Skilled Workers Adversely Impacted on Australian Wages?

terms, the wages of unskilled workers are likely to follow suit, maintaining the differential. This is further supported by the wa...

Issues in Family Addiction Therapy

intent is not to minimize the problem, but rather to discern ways in which family members can be supportive (Juhnke and Hagedorn, ...

Statistical Testing of Criminal Justice Data

the critical level, this the score against which the test statistic will be assessed to determine whether to accept or reject the ...

Example of Statistical Hypothesis Testing

The writer demonstrates the use of a hypothesis test with date that was collected by a student. The test is to determine if Faceb...