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No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

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

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

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

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

The NCLB Act and Pros and Cons

yearly progress (AYP) goals, they could face corrective action on the part of the federal government, including lost federal fundi...

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...

Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

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...

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...

Uses of Standardized Testing in Education

In four pages this research paper examines standardized testing and its uses and considers studies which suggest that a new curric...

Considerations in Standardized Testing

structures, are differentially activated when a story is interpreted. A students racial background and culture are particularly ...

Standardized Testing, Immigrants And ESL

other authors do not seem to consider in their discussions. In terms of language, for instance, a proficiency test measures the st...

Research Design in Standardized Testing

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. Program evaluation is used to examine the efficacy of standar...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

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...

Standardized Testing - Overview

under similar conditions and when responses are scored in the same way (FairTest, n.d.). Standardized tests include those devised ...

Terminology and Educational Applicability

for example, is properly analyzed by first looking at and defining the word "authentic" and then looking at and defining the word ...

Palast: Armed Madhouse

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

Analyzing Social Studies Education New Standards' Proposal

In nine pages this paper explores the state of Michigan's new standards proposal the includes a standardized curriculum and standa...

Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

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...

No Child Left Behind and SIF

has numerous data reporting mandates and it also require that data be accessible. Todays Student Information Systems (SIS) must be...

Appreciative Inquiry Implementation and the No Child Left Behind Act

positive outlook inherent to Appreciative Inquiry - defined as "extending an action research continuum that ranges from more tradi...

The NAEP and No Child Left Behind

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the No Child Left Behind Act and relates the major factors influencing thos...

The No Child Left Behind Act

implications that definitely go against the grain of some long-established educational practices. Given the problematic n...

No Child Left Behind - Illinois

black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade mathematics narrowed by seven percentage points" among others (NCLB making a difference...

Qualifications: No Child Left Behind Act

the ability to provide other opportunities, other than those dictated, to the teachers in their pursuit of becoming more qualified...

Effective?: No Child Left Behind and Partnership for Reading

standardized testing in high schools" (Frampton, 2006). In relationship to the Partnership for Reading, the website indicates it...