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by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...
(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...
understood that the education system of the nation is perhaps less than adequate as many children seem to leave high school with a...
U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...
testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...
and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...
examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...
school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...
up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...
scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...
to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...
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...
teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...
included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...
Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...
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...
not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...
In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...
In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...
In five pages this paper examines the continuing controversy that surrounds the practice of standardized IQ testing. Four sources...
In five pages this paper discusses decision making, problem solving, and reading score decreasing as measured by the CTBS standard...
In eight pages this research proposal studies the impact of standardized testing upon students in third and fourth grades with pro...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines public school vouchers and this program's social impact with standardized tes...
will be presented the questions in the same manner as other tests given by classroom teachers. The Multiple Choice questions will ...
In five pages the ERIC database is used in a literature review of various articles on standardized testing. There are more than t...
tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...
schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...