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Standardized Testing and its History

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

Educational Psychology

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

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 ...

Public School Education and Vouchers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines public school vouchers and this program's social impact with standardized tes...

Research Proposal on CPI and the Five Factor Personality Model

known as the NEO Personality Inventory. This was put forward by Costa and McCrae (1985). This is a measure of five personality tra...

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...

Testing In Education

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

High School Students and Relationship Between Aggression and Poor Grades Research Proposal

In five pages this research study proposal seeks to investigate if there is any relationship between low grades and student aggres...

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...

Leadership Analysis and Assessment

each section. Well analyze each of the scores and provide an explanation as to what this says about Joe. Well then offer a review ...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

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...

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...