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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...

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...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

a factor that makes this assessment method "objective" (Crighton, 2012). However, standardized testing is no longer believed to be...

Outline for Research Utilizing Existing Data

This paper presents a research outline for a research proposal provided by the student. The research proposal is for an ex post f...

Design for a Study in Social Research

collating and analysing data in a way which minimises potential error and can be used by subsequent researchers. For instance, if ...

Issues in BEahvioral Research

There are numerous research designs. This essay discusses just some that are used in behavioral research, such as quasi-experiment...

A Research Design Proposal for New Horizons

question has been chosen as it is a key issue that will need to be assessed before planning to introduce a new system. The questio...

Test Design Linking Amygdale and Human Fear Emotion

adjustments in the magnetic properties that are blood-oxygen dependant (Gabrieli, 2005). When the brain is activated by a stimulu...

HCI Practitioner Overview

In six pages usability testing and a practitioner of human computer interaction are discussed in this overview that includes histo...

Adjective Checklist for Personality Evaluation

In six pages this paper provides a personality evaluation adjective checklist test which includes a general overview of the text a...

Testing Product Prototypes

In eleven pages this paper discusses how to test product prototypes through virtual design and design modules that are reusable. ...

Mathematics Test Anxiety

format and move towards problem solving, which is more interactive and more exciting for students. Mathematics Anxiety and Test A...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...

School Testing and Bias

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

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

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...

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...

Literature Review on the Disadvantages of Standardized Testing

up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...

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...

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...

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...

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...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

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

Toulmin Argument/Standardized Testing is a Mistake

This essay argues, using the Toulmin format, that standardized testing is a mistake, and provides sources that support this positi...

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,...

Educational Psychology

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

Testing In Education

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

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 Effects and Impact of Technology on Standardized Test Scores: A Literature Review

including the SATs, the scholastic aptitude tests, which produce both math and written language skill subtest assessments (CEOFor...