487 Search Results for High Stakes Testing
We can simply say that the discussion is an important element to get rid of this system.
In this entire teaching and learning process, teacher plays an important role in the positive growth of a student and for this purpose we not only do need a sk Continue Reading...
Segregation in College
Racial segregation in the United States is associated with segregation or hypersegregation of services, facilities as well as basic provisions like education, medical care, housing, transportation and employment along racial l Continue Reading...
teacher instructional technology literacy instruction improve elementary (K-5) student achievement reading vocabulary? Create a qualitative research scenario phenomenology approach.
Using phenomenology
Does the use of instructional technology impr Continue Reading...
"Research Methods for Information Technology"
Bobby Allen's paper "Research Methods for Information Technology" specifically deals with the importance of research for individuals in the field of informational technology. Allen creates a typology o Continue Reading...
Literacy in Education: Its Influence on Scholarship, Practice and Leadership
It was said of Thomas Jefferson that he knew almost everything there was to know. Life was simpler 250 years ago, and the world was smaller. There were only a fraction of Continue Reading...
Classroom management is one of the greatest stressors American teachers cite with respect to their jobs.. Teachers feel pressured by the demands of increasingly stringent curriculum standards and results-oriented, high-stakes testing. Many believe t Continue Reading...
Formative assessment gives teachers the opportunity to provide students with feedback in time to improve learning. Fluckiger, Vigil, Pasco & Danielson (2010) describe several techniques to provide formative feedback to students more frequently a Continue Reading...
It is felt that this action will enhance the value of institutional accreditation and help to better prepare teachers for the reality of the classroom.
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Duncan, Arne. "Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks to National Council for Accreditatio Continue Reading...
Some feared the need for teachers to have multiple certifications to be considered highly qualified may prove nearly impossible for many school districts. As the demand for special education teachers increases, many specialists will be drawn to more Continue Reading...
This aspect of added material could be more difficult to implement but might give a broader understanding of the real change associated with the overall systems change. Though it must also be mentioned that administrators tend to have a less reflect Continue Reading...
According to these authorities, "Workplace stressors often have detrimental effects on faculty job satisfaction and may lead to decisions to leave the institution or to leave higher education entirely. Although some degree of turnover is inevitable Continue Reading...
" (Rosser, et al., 1999) Furthermore, Rosser et al. (1999) relates that these changes are overwhelming for some students and "…can overtax their capacity to cope, thereby compromising academic and emotional functioning." Unfortunately, there re Continue Reading...
Connected vs. Stand-alone
Communication revolution has moved from a world connected by telephone (a synchronous and asynchronous) including e-mail, bulletin boards, broadcast messages and chat rooms. As a result, new learning tools have developed Continue Reading...
School Finance: Its Economics and Politics
School financing in America
Revenue sources for federal and state governments
Judicial reviews of school finance policy with evolving standards of equality
School-based decision making
Family choice of Continue Reading...
This would also serve to improve the relationship and the trust between the teachers, students and their parents.
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OHSU, (Dec 2002), 'Pilot Study Reports High School Drug-Testing Program Dramatically Reduces Drug Use', Retrieved on Feb Continue Reading...
Internet: Privacy for High School Students
An Analysis of Privacy Issues and High School Students in the United States Today
In the Age of Information, the issue of invasion of privacy continues to dominate the headlines. More and more people, it s Continue Reading...
Psychological Testing.
Teachers must test. It is one method of evaluating progress and determining individual student needs. More than two hundred and fifty million standardized tests are administered each year to forty four million students who att Continue Reading...
Now we have examined two extremes in educational thought that have developed over the past century. Teacher centered and student centered philosophies differ significantly in their approach to the student-teacher relationship. Teacher centered phil Continue Reading...
Educational Leadership & Student Assessment in Pennsylvania
Student assessment has recently become a matter of great controversy in Pennsylvania, as many critics argue that it is not an accurate measure of students' attainment of the state's aca Continue Reading...
STUARATA INC.
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The project proposed is one creating a start-up company to make the product available for installation at customer sites in ten months from the start date. The production operation is planned for being in place at the sam Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing: The Good, Bad, and UglyToday, high-stakes standardized testing in the nations schools is commonplace, and the practice has been used in American schools at some level for more than 175 years. During this time, standardized tests Continue Reading...
Nature of the ProblemPurpose of the ProjectBackground and Significance of the Problem
Brain Development
Specific Activities to engage students
Data-Driven Instruction
Community Component of Education
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interviews with school teachers. The author interviews three teachers and presents their empirical evidence as well as researched data to outline teacher assessments, and then presents some suggestions for change based on this gathered information. Continue Reading...
Culturally Biased Intelligence Assessment
Intelligence assessments have existed since the early twentieth century and have continued to be a topic of debate. We all know full well that intelligence assessment is critical to the type if academic succ Continue Reading...
Teach to the Test
As William Hatfield presciently warned in 1916, when the ultra-efficiency of industrialization first begin threatening the independence of educators to craft curricula, "an education that focuses on memorising information to ensur Continue Reading...
These standards set forth clear expectations for school districts, schools, teachers, and students for the core subjects of reading, science and math. Each state's standards and testing are different, but all have the same goal of providing consiste Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Affirmative Action
"Firefighting is a skilled job where all of the skills learned are on the job… It's a really good job, and it's been racially exclusive in most of our major cities…" (John Payton, NAACP) (Liptak, 200 Continue Reading...
Crisis Communications for Globecell
Selection of Communications Channels
Effects on the Brand, Customers and Broader Business Environment
Online Strategy Definition
Recommendations and Future Direction
In any public relations crisis it is best t Continue Reading...
Theoretically, CLIL draws on research that situates the integration of language and content as the relationship between form and meaning. An understanding of the theory and practice related to the content-based classroom is essential to the present Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Key political, or legal issues, changes in K-12 assessment goals
A Statute of instructive practice within the K-12 cluster involves instruction, curriculum and assessment among students. In this case, alignment ens Continue Reading...
Strategic Value of Business Intelligence: Lessons Learned from Case Analysis of Exclusive Resorts LLC and Marshfield Clinic
Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) have the potential to completely redefine and make more customer-centric any enterpr Continue Reading...
Decoding: Identifying Improved Techniques and Approaches for Helping Children Learn to Read
Because reading is essential to overall academic success, one of the most serious and explosive issues in the United States today is how to meet the educati Continue Reading...
Della-Piana's 2008 article "Enduring issues in educational assessment" the "key recommendations" in the report A Nation at Risk called for standardized tests to measure "minimum competency" "at major transition points" to "certify the student's cred Continue Reading...
Running head: Assessment and accountability Assessment and accountability 4Assessment and AccountabilityAbstractStudents with high scores and high school grade point averages have a high capability of succeeding in colleges, depending on their reserv Continue Reading...
54) the student want to know what they will need to know for the test and this paradigm is frustrating because it support subsistence learning, i.e. learning just what you need to know and no more. Subsistence learning does not support or foster ind Continue Reading...
e. ELL students in public schools. Data provided in the literature demonstrates that by 2030, more than half of all students in American public schools will speak a language other than English (Devoe, 35). In some schools the total number of students Continue Reading...
Teacher Education in Nigeria: A Comparison with the United States
There is no nation that can grow beyond the quality of its education (Lawal, 2003). A nation can only develop meaningfully and attain professionalism through a good teacher education Continue Reading...
Ultra violet light affects many people, and several experiments may be done to either support or disapprove the hypothesis. Approval of the hypothesis forms a theory that people who are highly exposed to ultra violet light have higher chances of get Continue Reading...
Impact on Equity
One major point regarding equity as applied to performance-based assessment is made by Yale Professor Emeritus Edmund Gordon (Dietel, Herman and Knuth, 1991). "We begin with the conviction that it is desirable that attention be gi Continue Reading...
Certain states have very high risks for students and there even three quarters or more of the teachers report about this high pressure, whereas in states where the stakes are low, the report of pressure is for half the students or less. The pressure Continue Reading...