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School Testing and Bias

are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...

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...

Public Schools and Drug Testing

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

Insuring Fairness in Testing

continues to exist even today, such attacks are certainly warranted. It is up to those administering tests to insure that t...

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...

Issue of Bias in Testing

In seven pages this paper examines the ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and ethnic biases that can influence testing with Code of Fa...

Education Bias

study. The second phase, the student could add, would be a more face to face approach, where the researcher actually interviews a ...

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 ...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

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...

Coronary Angiography

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

Educational Ethical Issues: Standardized Tests

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the ethical education issue of standardized tests. This paper includes how the test scores ...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

Journalistic Bias, Disasters, Relief and the Media

role for journalists. Agencies such as the Red Cross and World Vision depend heavily of the power of visual imagery coupled with ...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

Reading Instruction and Standardized Test Scores

standardized test to determine which teaching method was most viable would be helpful in assessing the reading skills of the third...

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U.S., Free Speech, and Engel v. Vitale

prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...

California Schools' Drug Testing, Ethics, and Law

no evidence that suspicion is the case, is not overly approved of. However, there are schools where testing and active security is...

School Prayer & The Lemon Test

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

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...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

U.S. State of Georgia and Public Education

In eleven page this paper discusses Georgia's state public education in an outline of school systems with Georgia High School Grad...

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...

Higher Education and Standardized Testing Biases

In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...

Education, Testing, Racial and Cultural Bias

In seven pages this paper offers support for the assertions made by Claude S. Fischer in his text Inequality by Design Cracking t...

Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...