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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...
U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...
(ITBS) or the NEWAs (the North West Evaluation Association), individualized assessments that are provided at different times durin...
including the SATs, the scholastic aptitude tests, which produce both math and written language skill subtest assessments (CEOFor...
In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...
National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...
(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...
or not standardized testing is the best way to obtain information about student performance. As Hughes (1980) points out, there ar...
students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...
up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...
school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...
examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...
scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...
teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...
doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...
sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...
schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...
to derive what is known as a full-scale IQ. Six sections will provide the verbal IQ. This is done by measuring word understandin...
with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...
ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...
Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...
In six pages this paper discusses guardianship, supplemental benefits, social services, social role valorization, normalization, h...
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...
are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...
a factor that makes this assessment method "objective" (Crighton, 2012). However, standardized testing is no longer believed to be...
understood that the education system of the nation is perhaps less than adequate as many children seem to leave high school with a...
testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...
by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...
are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...