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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...

Evaluating Web-Based Courses

As more and more higher education courses are offered Online the usability of the design and process are essential. This paper dis...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

California Colleges and Universities

also numerous changes to the accreditation process, some of which have to do with distance education. And, there are special provi...

Standardized Testing, Immigrants And ESL

other authors do not seem to consider in their discussions. In terms of language, for instance, a proficiency test measures the st...

Considerations in Standardized Testing

structures, are differentially activated when a story is interpreted. A students racial background and culture are particularly ...

Uses of Standardized Testing in Education

In four pages this research paper examines standardized testing and its uses and considers studies which suggest that a new curric...

Research Design in Standardized Testing

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. Program evaluation is used to examine the efficacy of standar...

Educational Ethical Issues: Standardized Tests

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the ethical education issue of standardized tests. This paper includes how the test scores ...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

The Debate About Standardized Testing

students really learn ("Readers Poll," 2006). The exact statement provided for readers to rate was as follows: "Standardized testi...

School Testing and Bias

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

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...

Issue of Bias in Testing

In seven pages this paper examines the ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and ethnic biases that can influence testing with Code of Fa...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

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...

Three Events in the History of Higher Education

the fees and students came from "all walks of life," but primarily from the "poorer families of knights, or from among townspeople...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

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...

Standardized Testing - Overview

under similar conditions and when responses are scored in the same way (FairTest, n.d.). Standardized tests include those devised ...

Analyzing Social Studies Education New Standards' Proposal

In nine pages this paper explores the state of Michigan's new standards proposal the includes a standardized curriculum and standa...

Policies of Higher Education in Scotland

This paper addresses the policies and stance of higher education in Scotland. The author also includes future proposals for integ...

Effects of Academic Dishonesty on Higher Education

al., 2008). A 2002 study of nearly 50,000 undergraduate students in various U.S. colleges and universities conducted by Professor...

Accreditation & Regulatory Education Agencies

scope of service" (Eaton, 2001, p. 38). As this suggests, a college or university specializing in a specific field of study would ...

Lone Star College System

Lone Star College, founded in 1973, is the largest higher education institution in the Houston, Texas area. It is also one of the ...

An Identity for Universities

In 2997, Robbins wrote an article about the need for colleges and universities to have a theory and clear identification. She offe...

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...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

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

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...