16, 2015 Assignment #3 How “Test Taking” can cause educational issues Sloane, Finbarr C. "Issues in High-Stakes Testing Programs."Http://www.jstor.org/. pg. 12- 17. This article talks about many problems that are increasing the debate over present high-stake tesing programs. The focus is on four topis which regards the many types of tests being used, the way it effects the students behavior as well as their continued motivation, the position between the test as well as the course and the lastly
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1. List three advantages of progress monitoring over annual achievement tests. Curriculum based measurements help teachers find out how students are progressing on a regular basis. Some advantages of progress monitoring are that the results are much quicker versus the annual achievement test. Changes in the strategies and assessments can take place sooner. The results are very specific; it consists of information about the student skills and are provided as a graph, so parents and teachers can have
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Gary Freed, Lauren Morgan, Kelly Dunham, Elizabeth Hawkins-Walsh, and Kristy Martyn article titled, “Capacity Of, And Demand For Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Educational Programs: A Missing Piece of the Workforce Puzzle” discussed “whether the marginal increase in the pipeline for PNP’s is related to a limit in the capacity of educational programs or whether unfilled students exist.” The author’s used experimentation and studies to determine whether there was an increase or decrease in Pediatric
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This tangent is the most important in the novel because it shows that Christopher is unable to process behavioral differences between autistic and non-autistic people since Christopher is not exposed to various types of people in his daily life. First, Christopher has trouble understanding the opinions of people who do not have autism. For example, when Christopher is on the train to London, he voices his opinion that “People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it
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Many Americans are becoming more ashamed of being intellectually curious and serious about their education. In the passage from “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman, it refers to how students who want to study are academically serious are slowly becoming ashamed for who they truly are and what they are determined to do in the future. In America, those who are pursuing more knowledge are being excluded by society causing them to create poor social skills. Leonid Fridman builds an argument to
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Testing has been a major measurement of American public-school student achievement for several decades, especially during the past fifteen years. Students must take tests almost yearly, which will determine much of their educational future. Diane Ravitch, a professor and historian of education, writes in her book The Death and Life of the Great American School System about how schooling has changed over the past fifteen years, beginning with the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002. She
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With more and more negative news reports and articles, coming out about STARR testing, we the parents have to ask ourselves is this the best for our children? Our children come home from a long day of school with a huge stack of homework and our children not understanding anything they're learning or left so overwhelmed and frustrated, as the parents have to look and say is this too much pressure being put on our for our children? This seems to be the same statement parents are asking in Young, County
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EXAM An exam is an official test that shoes your knowledge or ability in a particular subject. Some people, however, argue that exam only is a kind of memory skill. They say that many people have a good memory and a special ability to pass exams and achieve brilliant results, though they have no capacity for original thought or imagination. But it should be realized that today the syllabuses are so extensive that a student cannot expect to pass an examination by relying entirely on his
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Statement of Problem One district located in a Colorado metropolitan area has struggled to achieve literacy growth according the the Colorado Department of Education. This particular district has been labeled as priority improvement because of the lack of growth. Within this school district one elementary school has been an exception and has not only surpassed literacy growth when compared to other schools in the district, they have been able to surpass literacy growth when compared to Colorado
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2014). Whenever an educational test is mandated, there are responsibilities for those who do so. Furthermore, it is the duty of those who mandate the test to clearly define how the test results should be used. Additionally, when it is foreseeable that a mandated test can cause
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