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In five pages the ERIC database is used in a literature review of various articles on standardized testing. There are more than t...
In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...
In five pages this paper discusses decision making, problem solving, and reading score decreasing as measured by the CTBS standard...
In five pages this paper examines the continuing controversy that surrounds the practice of standardized IQ testing. Four sources...
In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...
schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...
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...
for decades; Tom Peters and John Kao have supported the precepts of creativity. John Kao is certain that it is necessary to...
are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...
tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...
In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...
standardized test to determine which teaching method was most viable would be helpful in assessing the reading skills of the third...
is only if the causes of negative variances are known and understood that the employees are empowered to help control costs. The...
students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...
teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...
sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...
with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...
In six pages this paper discusses guardianship, supplemental benefits, social services, social role valorization, normalization, h...
one taken from patient records of a local teaching hospital, taken from among those patients admitted in the past calendar year wh...
and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...
school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...
studies have found that urban and rural students do less well on these tests than do suburban students (Wakefield, n.d.; St. Peter...
examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...
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...
located all around the world. Garten (1998) identified ten: "Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Turkey, India, Indo...
not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...
their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to empl...
scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...