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Developmental Disabilities' Issues Examined

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

Higher Education and Standardized Testing Biases

In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...

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...

The Use of Computer Aided Design and its Layer Standards

5 pages and 3 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the central components of the CAD operations with a specific focus...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

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...

U.S., Standardized Laws, and Gun Control

do so in Florida without having to meet state permit requirements, according to the Miami Herald" (Anonymous NA). The tourist tha...

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...

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...

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...

Private Health Insurance and Consumer Attitudes' Research

one taken from patient records of a local teaching hospital, taken from among those patients admitted in the past calendar year wh...

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...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Nike and Marketing Decisions

these decision ill come from a variety of sources. Nike, despite being in a dominant position will hve to rely on secondary data f...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

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...

Definition of Standardized Testing and Its Importance

studies have found that urban and rural students do less well on these tests than do suburban students (Wakefield, n.d.; St. Peter...

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...

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...

2005 Big Markets Emerging

located all around the world. Garten (1998) identified ten: "Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Turkey, India, Indo...

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...

Racial Conflict, Diversity, and Standardized Testing

their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to empl...

Standardized Testing Advantages

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

Major Issues Relating To The Management Of A Global Corporation

they may be seen to be enveloped in the issue of to what degree and how to whether globalize or localize strategies across the dif...

School Testing and Bias

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

Using Structured Interviews in Primary Research

way in which questions are asked and the way the interview itself is highly structured (Corbetta, 2003). The structured format all...

Tornstam's Gerotranscendence Theory

formulated by Lars Tornstam, a Swedish professor of sociology, has provided a new conceptualization of aging, as this theory perce...

Theories in the Field of Criminology

between Alien Conspiracy Theory and ethnic succession theories is that the former relies on physical and biological factors, where...

Theories of Organizational Change

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...