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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 29, Issue 6)Mindsurf Networks and EdVISION Corp. have partnered to offer school districts standards-based testing content and tools called Assessment Connection for Achievement Essentials. EdVISION's Assessment Connection...
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From:Counselor Education and Supervision (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined the relationship between 403 counseling graduate students' scores on the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (CPCE; Center for Credentialing and Education, n.d.) and 3 admissions...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 86, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe present five frameworks for explaining which U.S. states adopted high school exit examination policies at particular points in time. The frameworks correspond to issues of academic achievement, education spending,...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS DISPLAYING ITS INDEPENDENT STREAK. Critics of testing will take no comfort from the findings of the 2015 Education Next poll--but neither will supporters of the Common Core State Standards, school...
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From:Radical Teacher (Issue 83) Peer-ReviewedDollars & Sense, in "Testing Economics" (March/April 2008), asks, "Does the national economics assessment test high schoolers on economic literacy or economic ideology?" Their answer was that "the results... showed...
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From:School Psychology Review (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. This study examined the relation between benchmark data and rate of growth across the year for reading, math computation, and math concepts and applications curriculum-based measures, and a statewide and...
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From:International Journal of Instructional Media (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHigher academic standards, increased graduation requirements and high-stakes testing have come to characterize public school reform initiatives throughout the United States. This article examines some consequences of...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 47, Issue 6)Regents will consider a systemwide measure of both students and universities FACULTY LEADERS in the University of Texas System sounded alarms last week as the Board of Regents prepared to consider using systemwide...
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From:Gifted Child Today (Vol. 23, Issue 4)Kaplan's Pre-College Team offers 10 tips for taking the SAT and the ACT (Duke TIP Insights, Spring, 2000, p. 5). They make these recommendations: 1. Relax by accentuating positives. 2. Fill in the answer grid...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHIGH-SCHOOL EXIT EXAMS have fallen out of favor in recent years, after research showed that pinning graduation to passing a high-stakes test can push some students to drop out. The future can be grim without a diploma:...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 35, Issue 138) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship of emotional disturbance and pre- and postmigration environment to the scholastic achievement of adolescent refugees of very different cultural backgrounds. One...
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From:College Student Journal (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe study tried to examine the interaction between two independent variables of selective attention and cognitive development on Achievement in Genetics at the Secondary School level. In looking at the problem of this...
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From:Curriculum Administrator (Vol. 36, Issue 9)Controversy is brewing over whether students should have to take a 90-minute fine arts video test administered as a portion of the Missouri Assessment Program test. The interest in arts testing reflects a new...
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From:Journal of Human Resources (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPast research suggests that increasing the incomes of single mothers will bring intergenerational benefits. However, some sources of income may be more beneficial to children than others. This paper evaluates the effects...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 39, Issue 1)About 12 Chicago teachers have refused to give an achievement exam this month. They say the exam is flawed and not valid. In November, the group of teachers at Curie High School refused to give the Chicago Academic...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 2)Carl Washburn wondered how to push his teen-age son into studying for the SAT. After all, it's well-known that prepared students tend to score higher than those who aren't. Then Washburn realized his son's cell phone...
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From:Leadership (Vol. 35, Issue 2)Convincing your colleagues that testing is a good thing is no small challenge. Trying to convince them that more frequent testing in more subjects will actually motivate students is even harder. When I assumed...
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From:Curriculum Administrator (Vol. 36, Issue 9)High school students' math scores on the SAT climbed this year to the highest level since 1969, while verbal scores held steady for a fifth year. The test company attributed the increase to today's college-bound high...
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From:Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe ubiquitous use of mass testing regimes in school-based education throughout the Western world continues to be controversial and contested (Biesta, 2017; Ozolins, 2017; Stolz & Webster, 2017). Currently, the...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 15, Issue 15)The gap between well and poorly prepared student scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Advanced Placement exams is widening, according to 1998 statistics released by the College Board. The most striking difference...