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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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

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

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...

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...

Asthma and Food Allergies

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

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...