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contend with the increasing role that high-stakes testing plays in the decisions they make about what to teach and how to teach it...

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 ...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

High Stakes Testing

high-stakes testing and the states accountability systems for students with disabilities. The extensive investigation conducted b...

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...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Mathematics Test Anxiety

format and move towards problem solving, which is more interactive and more exciting for students. Mathematics Anxiety and Test A...

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking And Language

That such testing procedures expect the same scholastic performance from all students no matter their cultural or academic backgro...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

a factor that makes this assessment method "objective" (Crighton, 2012). However, standardized testing is no longer believed to be...

Need for CTE Education

3. If true, what is the worth of the programs, such as CTE, being dropped? Chapter 2 : Literature Review Various educational data...

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...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

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...

The High Stakes Game of the Toy Industry

A 20 page expose on the toy industry in the U.S. This paper reviews Sidney Stern and Ted Schoenhaus' Toyland The High-Stakes Game...

How Standardized Testing Damages Education

system that divides the student population rather than accurately and fairly evaluates it (Phillips 52). One of the most se...

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 ...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Adjective Checklist for Personality Evaluation

In six pages this paper provides a personality evaluation adjective checklist test which includes a general overview of the text a...

An Analysis of Slavery and Freedom in America

This paper consisting of six pages analyzes early Virginia's demographic and economic development as it is depicted in American Sl...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Marriage During the Victorian Era and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...

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The Basics of Hypothesis Testing

level the null hypothesis is rejected, so the hypothesis can be said as proven that they level of significance. There are a numb...

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...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Contemporary Literature Essay Tutorial

In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...

Education in Virginia, Florida, and Alabama

In five pages this paper discusses school safety, reforms in testing, and overcrowding issues in education as they affect Virginia...

Attrition of College Freshmen

levels of academic discourse both during lessons and in post-lesson narrative construction. Also, there was greater student parti...

Auditory Discrimination Tests

subject tested with the presentation of a standardized list of monosyllable words from a predefined list, with the words played th...