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Definition of Standardized Testing and Its Importance

studies have found that urban and rural students do less well on these tests than do suburban students (Wakefield, n.d.; St. Peter...

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...

Computer Testing Model Format Variations

In twenty pages this paper evaluates the program design of computer testing models and provides a testing and instructional design...

Chi Squared Test and Statistical Analysis

In six pages this paper examines a hypothetical test with a chi squared test used in a comparison as a way of understanding how st...

Atomic Bomb and its Long Term Impacts at Trinity and Los Alamos

In eight pages this paper examines atomic bomb testing and development in 1945 in terms of the regional sociological and environme...

Freedom and the Constitution

One word that comes to mind when talking about the U.S. Constitution is freedom. This paper examines how the freedom of expression...

The Ethical Dilemma of Animal Testing

The biomedical testing of animals is examined in five pages through a fictional proposed law that ban animal testing with the exce...

Public Schools and Drug Testing

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

A WISC III Intelligence Scale Examination

examples in answer (Kaufman, 1994 and See Also MacMillan, 1996, p. 133). This essay discusses potential Wechsler candidates, the...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Applications of the Classic Tests for a Just War

under the just intention of abating evil and promoting good, 4. whether other means of rectification have been attempted and war ...

Are Fuel Prices Correlated with Elections

higher due to inflation. There are many tests we can undertake using this data, but for the comparison of data sets to asses if t...

The Debate About Standardized Testing

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

Statistical Test; T-Test

task undertaken by two different samples the same sample undertaking the same test under different conditions, it may also be used...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...

Overview of the TAT Personality Test

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

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...

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. ...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

Senior Citizen Driving Problems

did play a role in the demise of the innocent bystanders who got in his way during that deadly summer day. Whether age is a fac...

Pledge of Allegiance, 'Under God,' and Newdow v. U.S. Congress

its adherence to the so-called Exception clause of the Constitution, a clause tested through three separate theories: the Lemon t...

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 ...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

High Stakes Testing

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

Statistical Testing

The t-test gives as a score of 1.5691772 and the p-value (which is a probability value) is 0.074085. From this result there is a s...

Considerations in Standardized Testing

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

Hypothesis Test And Results

This 8 page paper is based on data provided by the student which is used to perform an ANOVA test. The raw data, hypothesis test a...

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...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...