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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...

Campaigns and Elections in the United States

are likely to look askance at such a person" (Allen, 1998, p. 22). Americans, while we realize that campaigns take money, like t...

Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...

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...

Metabolites and Methadone

Once indigested the methadone is metabolised by the liver. This is mostly by demethylation and followed by cyclization (cytochro...

Correlation Between Educator Attrition and Mentoring Programs

pages. Please review some Masters Theses in your school library. Hope these notes help you to better understand this type of resea...

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 ...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Study Objectives and Testing Bias

and the purpose of these objectives related to the problem as a whole. This can be done in a single paragraph. The study objecti...

Convicted Criminals and DNA Mandatory Testing

expenditure of millions of dollars and countless hours of time trying to solve such crimes. Consequently, our legal and criminal ...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Microbiologist Study of Cells and Various Techniques

methods of studying cell and cell structures, for microbiologists, are generally reliant on microscopes. Obviously, the cell canno...

Globalization and its Effects

as officially achieving "mature" status. Singapore began its quest for modernization and sustainable development in 1960. ...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

Education and Qualitative Content Analysis

In other words, the achievement of goals is clearly a focus of the assessment and testing process. But on an individual level, as...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

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

Clinical Practice and Psychological Assessment

are not as valid as medical tests, that the assessments used are not valid (Daw, 2001). As the report stated: "This report helps u...

Overview of the Slosson Intelligence Test

mental competencies and handicaps through the view of its specific domains. The SIT-R provides a basis for assessing intelligence...

Overview of Polygraph Testing

(CQT), the Directed Lie Test (DLT) and the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) (Carroll, 2005). When the CQT is used, the examiner "compa...

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...

Survey on Classroom Technology

increase productivity, and promote creativity; Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced ...

U.S. Democracy and Worldviews

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Teacher Made Test Assessments

on the testing outcomes as a whole. Both questions 16 and 20 include grammatical errors or language that appears faulty, again i...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...

Education and Testing

will be reflected at the end of a semester evaluation. In the case of lessons designed through a holistic approach, the developme...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...