SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

Essays 841 - 870

Educational Assessments Based on Competency

that such an approach is too narrow and conformist. Yet nearly 80% of those same academics indicated that they had had no experien...

Changes in Education Curriculum Trends During the Next Decade

educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...

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...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Characteristics and Performance of Thirty Six Airports Statistically Analyzed

an analysis such as this as it measures the most popular result and no two airports are likely to have the same result. The median...

Leadership Analysis and Assessment

each section. Well analyze each of the scores and provide an explanation as to what this says about Joe. Well then offer a review ...

Education Contributions of Desiderius Erasmus

preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...

Q Methodology and Education

the subject population, and so the question are grounded and exist as a part of the study as a whole. The ranking of these statem...

Learning Theories and Philosophy of Education

positive change are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of ...

An Article Review on How Human Lives Are Saved by Animal Research

populations are exposed to the polio. In order to create a true research experiment, the subjects would be numbered and the doses...

Elementary School Mathematics, Science, and the Internet

simply by introducing technology, but rather is contingent on teachers integrating it into the curriculum as a whole. Other litera...

Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

Tertiary Distance Education Student Adjustment

in class time in Germany, Brazil and China. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture from a CD-ROM, checks ...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Bilingual Reading Studies and Using Multicultural Stories and Literature Circles to Improve Levels of Reading

years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

The Insurance Industry and Testing for Adverse Selection

will or can occur. Objective research seeks to gather all data and then analysis the inclusive data. The initial problem with asym...

Characteristics of Corporate Governance

1998). Furthermore, experiments must be performed in a laboratory and under specific conditions that are detailed by the Home Off...

Statistics and Mean Starting Salaries

and well assume that the first and second columns are starting salaries of public accountants and financial planners, with the lat...

Developing Instruction Through Burton and Merrill's Educational Needs and Needs Assessments

will identify the goals for instruction (ITMA, 2003). When the goals of the instruction are determined, the next step is to look a...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

4 ANOVA Statistics Questions Week II

In a hypothesis test, level of significance is . The null hypothesis H0 is that there is no difference between employment...

The Boys Scouts in Litigation

they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...

Educational Human Resources and Diversity Management

part-time students and 40 percent are over the age of 24, with 80 percent commuting to campus (Mellow, Van Slyck and Eynon, 2003)....

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

Industrial Relationist Theory, Social Reform, and Labor Movements

Not everyone does well in the capitalist system. Those who do well are hurt by unions, but those who have had a hard time in the s...

US Desegregation Laws and Educational Practices

doors. Now, many decades later, a more insidious form of this type of harassment is before the legislature. Many predominantly...

ISAT

10 be tested (Bettis, 2004). The Illinois Goals Assessment Program (IGAP) was created to "develop competency-based tests" (Bettis,...