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Coronary Angiography

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

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...

Ongoing Debate Regarding IQ Tests

In five pages this paper examines the continuing controversy that surrounds the practice of standardized IQ testing. Four sources...

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...

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...

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...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

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

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 ...

Research Proposal on Standardized Testing of Third and Fourth Graders

In eight pages this research proposal studies the impact of standardized testing upon students in third and fourth grades with pro...

Developmental Disabilities' Issues Examined

In six pages this paper discusses guardianship, supplemental benefits, social services, social role valorization, normalization, h...

School Testing and Bias

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

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,...

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 ...

Shortcomings of Math and Science Textbooks

science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...

Racial Inferiority Concept

are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

Literature Review on Standardized Testing

to derive what is known as a full-scale IQ. Six sections will provide the verbal IQ. This is done by measuring word understandin...

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...

No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

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...

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...

A Research Proposal on Standardized Testing

examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Standardized Testing Advantages

scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...