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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...

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...

Advantage Learning Systems' Accelerated Reading Program

In this paper consisting of six pages a study of this program's effects is proposed as it relates to middle school students' readi...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

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...

The Debate About Standardized Testing

students really learn ("Readers Poll," 2006). The exact statement provided for readers to rate was as follows: "Standardized testi...

Standardized Testing Criticisms

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. A favorable position is taken towards the use of such tests. P...

Using T-Tests and Excel

The paper presents results based on data supplied by the student. Two hypothesis tests are presented, with the excel output, to sh...

A New Standard for Social Studies Education Analyzed

and the rebellious forces of Cromwells parliament, and these tensions exploded into a violent and bloody civil war in England in 1...

Evaluating Web-Based Courses

As more and more higher education courses are offered Online the usability of the design and process are essential. This paper dis...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Parents and Accountability

In this paper consisting of five pages the issue of whether schools or parents should be accountable for educating children is dis...

ESOL: Science Lesson

the interactive environment of group sharing. Directed Reading/Thinking Activity is accomplished in five specific steps: preview,...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...

Bureaucracy in Contemporary Government

In five pages government bureaucracy is considered in a discussion of such issues as responsiveness, accountability, monitoring, a...

Memory Retention Testing For Second Language Classes

stored in the brains memory bank to be brought up when they are heard again and again. According to Cooks Linguistics and...

Example of Statistical Hypothesis Testing

The writer demonstrates the use of a hypothesis test with date that was collected by a student. The test is to determine if Faceb...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

Brantlinger's "Dividing Classes: How The Middle Class Negotiates And Justifies School Advantage" - Reflective

This, notes Brantlinger (2003), is precisely the situation that has manifested where academic injustice is concerned, inasmuch as ...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

Article on Allocation of Costs

by the project, use of department that are using those resources. In the case of all costs being allocated to a single project or ...