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and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...
students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...
by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...
testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...
understood that the education system of the nation is perhaps less than adequate as many children seem to leave high school with a...
U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...
are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...
not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...
scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...
to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...
up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...
examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...
tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...
with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...
ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...
This essay argues, using the Toulmin format, that standardized testing is a mistake, and provides sources that support this positi...
benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...
science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...
are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...
to derive what is known as a full-scale IQ. Six sections will provide the verbal IQ. This is done by measuring word understandin...
schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...
on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines public school vouchers and this program's social impact with standardized tes...
In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...
In five pages this paper examines the continuing controversy that surrounds the practice of standardized IQ testing. Four sources...
In five pages this paper discusses decision making, problem solving, and reading score decreasing as measured by the CTBS standard...
school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...
doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...
teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...