870 Search Results for Student Assessment and Standardized Tests
School Choice Program
This study aimed to determine the impact of school choice through a comparative study of two private schools, which serve primarily, or exclusively African-American students, and a public school.
Data in student achievement in Continue Reading...
These authors note that the obstacles for ELL students are particularly challenging, given that they include both educational and technical issues. These challenges include the following:
Historically low ELL performance and very slow improvement. Continue Reading...
Ability Grouping
Is ability grouping the way to go, or should it go away?
Whether or not ability grouping is an effective strategy for the instruction of students of different academic abilities is a hotly debated issue, with divergent evidence. So Continue Reading...
TABLE OF CONTENTSPageLIST OF TABLES .LIST OF FIGURES .ChaptersI. INTRODUCTION .Overview .Statement of the Problem .Purpose of the Study .Conceptual Framework .Research Questions .Rationale for the Study .Significance of the Study .Definition of Key T Continue Reading...
Teacher Responsibilities
Observed Lowe, and Motely plan for the Unit 1 Poetry Segment
Through observation it has become apparent that the Ms. Lowe has numerous responsibilities throughout the day. She was often planning lessons, teaching students i Continue Reading...
Murray characterizes educational romantics as people who believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive and has little to do with their intellectual capacity. Educational romantics believe th Continue Reading...
For example, superintendents used to be given some leeway in hiring and firing of relevant personnel. Now, if the "relevant school staff when schools fail to make annual yearly progress for four consecutive years" they must be fired (Peterson & Continue Reading...
One of the top performers, Singapore, boasts a very different approach towards mathematics education: "While a single lesson in a U.S. textbook might span two pages and take one class period to go through, a lesson in a Singapore textbook might use Continue Reading...
Can Grades Measure Intelligence?IntroductionGrades have always been considered as an indicator of academic success and intelligence. However, the question that arises is whether grades alone are a sufficient measure of an individual\\\'s intelligence Continue Reading...
level of communication it takes to handle a case where a child has multiple disabilities. A transdisciplinary approach is useful in allowing professionals to collaborate and ask for help should the client or the client's parent require it. Handling Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Act
Analysis of articles that focus on the impact of "No Child Left Behind Act" on key stakeholders of education in the United States.
January 8, 2002 was the date the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by President Continue Reading...
This means the schools may not be so different from their public counterparts. The author suggest, for further research, a randomized comparison of charter and public school students in terms of standardized state test performance to provide better Continue Reading...
If minorities are to ever be given equal
footing in the race to influence, political representation and economic
balance, they must first be given fair recognition within America's
educational system.
In order for educators to achieve this necessary Continue Reading...
According to a British Study conducted on all students born in the first week of March 1958, and following them through adolescence and on until the age of twenty-three:
There were no average differences between grouped and ungrouped schools becaus Continue Reading...
Bridging the Gap between Testing and Technology in Schools," authors Michael Russell and Walter Haney look at the potential effects of technology in schools on testing and assessment. The authors begin by stating that while many schools are emphasiz Continue Reading...
Climate of Creativity: Teaching English to Young Learners Through the Art of Drama
Several learning and involving learning experiences emerge for the early childhood students when both drama and movement are incorporated in the daily syllabus (Chau Continue Reading...
American school Counseling Association (ASCA) holds various positions when it comes to professional school counselors and their conduct with students. The paper will look at three of these positions carefully and compare with my own view, opinion an Continue Reading...
Superintendents must deal with student populations that change yearly as school choice options alter. These alterations will influence schools that have to present school choice, and schools that do not get Title 1 funds. The child who uses school c Continue Reading...
The Bracken Basic Concept Scale
This scale assesses 258 concepts in 11 categorical areas (color, letter identification, numbers/counting, comparison, shapes, direction/position, social-emotional, size, textural/material, quantity, and time/sequenc Continue Reading...
In fact, the No Child Left Behind Act, and other standardized test-based programs are "increasing incentives for school administrators to allow [poorly performing] students to quietly exit the school system ("Negative Implications," 2008). Being a h Continue Reading...
This test is useful because it can bring to light certain aspects of anxiety that are manifested somatically, even if the student is unwilling to admit about worrying about test performance on the more overt questions. Then, if a strong correlation Continue Reading...
" (Siegel, 2006) Findings of the study report that "Findings show a clear positive trend between students' fitnessgram scores and their reading and mathematic achievement. Fitnessgram scores were correlated with Stanford Achievement test (SAT) scores Continue Reading...
Second Language Acquisition
Advantages and Disadvantages of Bringing up Children Bilingually
Much of the debate on bilingual education is wasteful, ironic, hypocritical, and regressive. It is wasteful because instead of directing attention to sound Continue Reading...
Administration & Evaluation of Adult Education Programs
Similar to other government financed schemes, adult education has met with mounting requests to exhibit its efficacy and the importance of the guidance it presents. Akin to every government Continue Reading...
Race, Ethnicity, and Academic Achievement - Proposal of Research Design
This research will study the relationship between race and ethnicity and academic achievement.
This study will look at whether students from five racial classifications - White Continue Reading...
Educational Law Summary:
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA)
One of the most recent and controversial works of educational legislation passed by Congress has been that of No Child Left Behind (NC Continue Reading...
Kindergarten
What is the right age for a child to enter kindergarten? This paper will delve into that topic, point out the benefits of having a child in kindergarten, and approach the issue of whether mandatory attendance is appropriate.
Kindergart Continue Reading...
There are over 4.4 million ELs enrolled in U.S. public schools, a number that has doubled during the last decade, making ELs roughly 10% of the total enrollment nationwide (Conrad 2005). The demographic increases demonstrate to government agencies t Continue Reading...
But high schools have been reporting rising grade point averages. Regardless of whether grade inflation is to blame, or an ineffectuality on the part of standardized testing to adequately measure student achievement, this points to another difficult Continue Reading...
Hernando County and NCLB: Mandate for Drastic Change
The Hon. Ginny Brown-Waite
North Main Street
Sincerely,
Hernando County's Current NCLB Situation
The Hernando County Situation in a Larger Context
National Commentary on NCLB
2004 Adequate Y Continue Reading...
Teacher evaluation is a controversial topic. It is often thought by the general public and even some educators that once a teacher rises to a certain level there is little incentive to alter practices based on current research or training and even mo Continue Reading...
The paper reviews the plan. Are the priorities significant? Is it Data-driven? Is it Impactful? Is the timeline realistic? Is this Monitored? Resourced? Are all stakeholders represented? Appropriate to the task? Accountable? Resourced?Set Context Bri Continue Reading...
Autism is a developmental disorder as it is marked with pervasive and severe impairment revolving around areas of development such as communication, imagination, reciprocal interaction and behavior. The diagnostic criteria for autism as incorporated Continue Reading...
Psychology Treatment
For most of U.S. history up to the time of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the mentally ill were generally warehoused in state and local mental institutions on a long-term basis. Most had been involuntarily committed by Continue Reading...
What is known, though, is that many school counselors continue to be underutilized by the very stakeholders who stand to gain the most benefit from their services, and in many cases the professional services rendered by school counselors is incongru Continue Reading...
In addition, students in the same classroom can focus on problems that range in complexity, with some students describing the process for reducing fractions and others designing and explaining binomial equations," (Kluth & Straut 2001). In short Continue Reading...
We are using four different schools for our data, but as the data are being obtained from one community (therefore one unit of measurement for both the study and comparison group). We are unable to randomly assign the children to either the experime Continue Reading...
, 2000). This increased responsibility has placed a tremendous amount of pressure on teachers, which in turn places a tremendous amount of pressure on the students as well.
However, even with the negative issues that have come with education reform, Continue Reading...