There are, for example, many ways for a student to present an understanding of the causes of the U.S. Civil War" (1999, p. 35). Conclusion The research showed high stakes standardized testing approaches are becoming increasingly commonplace in the 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...
This helps them deal with administrative tasks such as applying for grants, reporting their progress, appeasing parents, etc. In addition, teacher-based methods of assessment have at least one positive implication for students. According to Flood et Continue Reading...
"One problem with achievement testing is that a few minutes of performance time can end up directing a young child's entire educational career." (Schmitz 1991) When tests are administered to young children that take extended periods of time to compl Continue Reading...
OCR recognizes that colleges and universities are under a lot of legal and political pressure to stop using racial and ethnic factors in admission," Clegg commented. "[In response,] the agency wants to intimidate colleges and universities to contin Continue Reading...
Student Assessment What is the most appropriate way to assess student achievement? The commission of the National Middle School Assessment of student achievement suggests "authentic assessment refers to evaluation that makes use of real life tasks Continue Reading...
Standardized testing vs. authentic assessment in the elementary and junior high school The role of evaluation is one of the basic issues discussed in education today, which is of main concern. Assessment may be described as a method used to better k Continue Reading...
Abstract The relevance of having in place standards of fair testing practices cannot be overstated. This is more so the case when it comes to highlighting and clearly outlining the obligations of those who either construct tests or formulate testing 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...
Students will not be able to understand the need to learn a subject and they will not have an opportunity to research or think about a particular subject when they are merely forced to memorize the details. Teachers are badly affected since they hav Continue Reading...
Because they are not formal and have more of the quality of brainstorming, however it would be rare for a class to only require journals as a method of assessment. While essays, portfolios, and journals are useful methods of assessment to grade the Continue Reading...
Students Will Select a Construct of Interest My construct of interest is whether there are any prejudice tests that can accurately measure prejudice to races other than Blacks. Do the currently available standardized tests on prejudice measure prej Continue Reading...
Students with ADHD Education 518, Section B13 Dr. Carolyn McCreight Qualitative article review: Students with ADHD Homeschooling is one of the controversial approaches to educate children with 'special needs'. Students with Attention Deficit Hype Continue Reading...
Serving students with a full range of abilities and disabilities in the general education class room with appropriate in-class support is how Roach (1995) defines inclusion using this practice. Friend & Bursuck (1996) noted that children with d Continue Reading...
standardized tests and there is math association with the results. On the other hand informal reading assessments do not have the same formal data requirements and is based more on performance. These two kinds of assessments will be critiqued in thi Continue Reading...
School-Based Tutoring Programs Significantly Improve Student Performance on Standardized Tests?" Rothman & Henderson (2011) examine the impact of in-district, after-school tutoring programs on eighth grade students' standardized test scores in m Continue Reading...
They computed a variety of measures to determine whether there was in fact a narrowing of a gap between teacher qualifications across wealthier and poorer schools and found that there was. This narrowing -- indicative of changes in hiring practices Continue Reading...
This in turn reflects badly upon me. There is no valid way in which I can adjust my teaching methods to relate to the narrowly focused test material without severely harming my or my students' goals towards excellence and future success. Having spo Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
Learning through Social interaction What personal experiences do you have with assessments? While teaching middle school in San Diego, California, many of my colleagues, encouraged by worried administrators (who feared a loss of funds) were simply 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...
Student Learning: As the society has focused on relegating learning to one percentage score or letter grade for sorting and ranking students, learning is a complex process. Nonetheless, evaluating or assessing student learning has become more compl Continue Reading...
standardized achievement tests and diagnostic tests. Standardized tests are usually administered after the material has been taught, and they are used to determine whether or not the class has successfully met the district and state standards. The Continue Reading...
S. Bibliography Abdal-Haqq, I. (1995, June). Professional standards development: Teacher involvement. Retrieved July 28, 2009, from ERIC Digests - ED383693: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/fd/a6.p Continue Reading...
This is evident in the introverted, shy young man's progress to "owning" the role of Word War I expert in the class. If evaluated only on quantitative metrics, the students' potential would not have been observed and nurtured. Based on these insigh Continue Reading...
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). Wit Continue Reading...
Assessment results on this particular population shape educators' attitudes about the skills and abilities of this subset of students, and hence may not capture the reality of all the students know or are capable of. Moreover, this inherent failing Continue Reading...
Ideally, however, students should be subject to a wide variety of tests to paint a clearer picture of their proficiency. Norm-based tests provide an idea of how well a student has performed in relation to peers with a similar educational background; Continue Reading...
Q2.Identify specific behaviors that would help an educator understand student achievement, cognition, behavior, and communication. Coming to class on time and being 'ready to learn,' being able to pay attention to the teacher without being unduly Continue Reading...
Accountability Student Learning Accountability Plan K-12 Learning Staff Responsibility for Enhancing Student Learning In a K-12 educational setting, staff are tasked with the responsibility of enhancing student learning to the best of their abilit 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...
President X of Education: Even proponents of high-stakes standardized testing for grades K-12 have argued that such tests should be only one measure amongst many to validate the effectiveness of a school or student. Yet the emphasis placed upon suc Continue Reading...
Activities Activity #1: Discuss the pros and cons of testing from two perspectives: (1) as a test-taker and (2) as a test-giver From the point-of-view of the test-taker, the 'cons' of taking a test seem obvious. Besides the nerves and the fear of Continue Reading...
BrainPOP IT instructional technologies in the classroom In The Study of the Effectiveness of BrainPOP (2009) a multiscale tool to facilitate learning and assessment of curricula content is analyzed in the interest of development in education (SEG R Continue Reading...
Differentiated Learning Simply because a teacher treats all students 'the same' does not mean that all of his or her students are being treated fairly. For example, expecting a child with dyslexia to read an assignment as quickly, without support, a Continue Reading...
personal experiences with assessments is an ongoing and continuous life event; every individual on earth is either assessing or being assessed in almost every interaction one can think of. Assessment is especially important in the educational commun Continue Reading...
Literacy in Secondary School in Ireland The literacy curriculum in secondary school in Ireland is based on a strategy of language-related lesson modifications, identified by Peregoy and Boyle as good methods of ensuring that differentiation occurs i Continue Reading...
Control Mid-year teacher evaluations are causing some stress among public school teachers; in this analysis three cousins from various places in the state are having a Christmas holiday meeting to discuss the ways in which the different districts t Continue Reading...
