"Schools will not be able to attract high-quality teachers to a system that stifles richness and creativity and emphasizes a narrow band of knowledge and a very restricted set of tests to measure it." Consequently, struggling schools will get worse Continue Reading...
Thus, students faced with fear and stress, are overwhelmed, concentrating on the test rather than on the goals of learning. They cannot concentrate on school work, understanding the importance of learning and education, because of stress that forces Continue Reading...
7). Although "one would expect higher quality assessment instruments that produce better information to make education decisions given NCLB-imposed penalties for districts associated with poor performance on the test...many states struggle with bud Continue Reading...
Recognition of quality and lack there of should be a basic goal of the education system, as it strives to direct resources and change situations that are not meeting the demands of accountability, yet it is clear that High Stakes testing does a poo Continue Reading...
Because of this, students who had disabilities, low language proficiency, and who come from various ethnic backgrounds are viewed as such during the grading process. In addition, these kinds of assessments allow professors to not only assess whether Continue Reading...
articles on high-stakes testing. Specifically, it will review the three articles, and include how the articles changed my personal views on high-stakes testing. Clearly, testing is a necessity in the educational environment, and yet, many forms of t Continue Reading...
Only 32.6% of Black households own a computer, compared to 65.6% among Asian-Americans, 55.7% among Whites, and 33.7% among Hispanics. Similarly, only 23.5% of Black households have Internet access compared to 56.8% among Asian-Americans, 46.1% amon Continue Reading...
High stakes testing is a concept of using assessments to make major decisions about students and to hold schools accountable. In the U.S. high stakes testing is part of a standardization process that sees students being assessed to evaluate progress; Continue Reading...
While some suggest that high-stakes testing is an inadequate way of measuring the academic achievement and learning of most students, many also agree that high-stakes testing has severe disadvantages for special education students. Kymes points out Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing: Validity, Reliability and Specific to Purpose Pros and Cons of standardized testing: High stakes tests Assessment of non-standardized students The one elemental requirement when determining any policy or standard that cannot Continue Reading...
High-Quality Elementary Education What ingredients go into a high quality education for elementary school children -- and what does the literature reveal? What has been the impact of "No Child Left Behind" in terms of achieving that seemingly unachi Continue Reading...
" (2003) Furthermore, it is related that the study of Valencia, Valenquela, Sloan and Foley (2001) suggest that "inferior schools are the cause of historically minority student failure, and in promoting accountability, proponents are treating the sy Continue Reading...
Standardized testing has been rummaging around academic circles in America for close to a century ("Americans Instrumental"), but what has garnered the most controversy is the mandated nationwide testing under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2 Continue Reading...
Additionally, administrators need to be trained to recognize appropriate and inappropriate test preparation strategies. Teachers also need to be trained on developing authentic assessments with the same rigor as the state assessments. Popham (2001) Continue Reading...
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System An effort to improve the quality of education for all students and to ensure that no child is left behind, Massachusetts advocates, parents and educators of the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Educatio Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing Investigation Academic success has been measured for decades by scores on Standardized tests including the HSPA, CAT, MAT, and SATs. Recent studies have held that too much weight is assigned to these tests and that certain highe Continue Reading...
No high-achieving nation tests every child, every year, in the way we're currently doing. They have much more intellectually ambitious assessments [or measuring not just memory but what students can do with knowledge]. -- Ed Finkel, 2010 As the 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...
The foundations of high stakes testing indicate that their intention is to formulate change that is traceable and transparent. Accountability is essential to outcomes but instruction must be aligned to the needs of students and educators and most i Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Standardized Testing on Educational Equity: Explore how standardized tests might perpetuate or challenge educational inequalities, focusing on socioeconomic, racial, and geographic dispar Continue Reading...
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was first signed into law in 1990, and several amendments to it have been made including the most recent changes made in 2009. Generally, the ADA requires that "reasonable accommodations" are made to infrastruct Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Standardized Testing on Education Equality: This essay would explore how standardized testing contributes to or detracts from the goal of achieving educational equality. It could examine the fairness o Continue Reading...
SAT/ACT/GRE Testing Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is standardized exams completed by many high school students before heading to college. Therefore, it contains a suite of tools designed to assess a student's academic readiness for college. Through Continue Reading...
Destructive Implications of Standardized Testing At every level education, our instincts are to prize creativity, ingenuity, individuality and competitive excellence. Never is this more so than at the University level, where a great many students ar Continue Reading...
Thus, the best way to achieve educational improvement and student success is to pair the issue of standardized testing together with other teacher-based assessments. Standardized testing should remain a focus of the educational realm for administrat Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing is not good for Education. Standardized testing and standardized tests, when looked at for themselves are not bad things. When utilized to diagnose an issue or try to figure out if a student has learned what they have been taug 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...
American public education system has endured many changes in the last few decades. It has gone from back to basics, to whole language learning, and then back to basics again. The system is constantly being scrutinized by the parents who send their c Continue Reading...
Conflicting Viewpoints Essay: Standardized TestingStandardized testing has become increasingly common throughout the American educational system. It has become a critical part of national and state education law and policy as a way of ensuring greate Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Standardized Testing on Educational Equity: This topic explores how standardized tests might perpetuate or challenge educational inequalities, focusing on access to resources, test prep Continue Reading...
Intelligence testing can be a useful means of measuring certain skills. However, intelligence tests are highly contextualized and also have the potential to be culturally biased. Although intelligence tests are “here to stay,” they can be Continue Reading...
The ironic acronym of the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading (FAIR) belies its inherent problems. As much as standardized testing has been hailed as a means of improving overall school and individual student performance, these methods use Continue Reading...
Mrs. E (Kluge 2005, pp. 191). This does not apply to this situation, however, as Jack's competency for decision making is only temporarily impaired, and he will still be caring for himself by and large for the foreseeable future. Thus, a considerat Continue Reading...
Animal Rights The amount of heed to be given regarding the rights of animals has remained to be a heated argument these past few years due to the new, innovative ways of people and their treatment of animals in various situations. The most common co Continue Reading...
Philosophy natural science. Given natural science theories: 1. What makes objects fall 2. The missed 2012 apocalypse First, describe theories world / forces operate . These theories, pass Karl Popper's theory demarcation Natural Science Theories Th Continue Reading...
Management Strategy to Utilize Meta-Analysis Technique for Nuclear Energy and Waste Disposal and Create Social Sustainability This research proposal explores the link between public perceptions of nuclear power, how those perceptions are formed, an Continue Reading...
high-stakes testing in Texas. Specifically it will discuss why this type of testing is too high pressure and stressful to really create better learning in the school systems. Because teachers are under pressure to be accountable for a child's learn Continue Reading...
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts. The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lac Continue Reading...
