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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"High Stakes Assessment"”.
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Does the Degree of Implementation of the Components of the Middle School Design Relate to High-Stakes Assessment Scores in Grade 8 Reading and Math?
… components of the middle-school design relate to high-stakes assessment scores in Grade 8 reading and math? There currently exists a conflict between the advocates of the middle-school components and those who support an abandonment of this philosophy and conceptual model for a more conservative …
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Illinois preservice music teachers’ perceptions of the high-stakes use and formative elements of the edTPA
Teacher portfolio assessments are required for licensure in some states, and an increasing number of states have adopted a nationally available portfolio assessment, the edTPA, for this purpose. Preservice music teachers may view mandatory requirements such as the edTPA as a consequential or …
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Unintended Negative Consequences of Selection: A Longitudinal Study of Assessment Use in An Undergraduate Honours System
The use of high-stakes assessment for selective and evaluative purposes is prevalent in Chinese education, but its assumed psychological benefits are under question. To understand how assessments and an honours programme may have unintended consequences on students, this thesis investigated …
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Targeted Instructional Practices to Enhance ELL Performance on the NYS English Language Arts Regents
… English Language Arts (ELA) Regents Exam, a high-stakes assessment that is often a barrier to graduation. This capstone project explores how educators can better support ELLs in meeting the demands of the Regents through a three-part professional development (PD) series. The PD sessions …
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ICT and its assessment at 16: an enquiry into the perceptions of year 11 students
… and Communications Technology (ICT) and its assessment at aged 16. The prevailing orthodoxies amongst writers, commentators and educationalists are that the subject does not reflect the learning and use made by young people of technology. The voice of the learner, so often lauded in aspects …
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1:1 Laptop Experience And High-Stakes Testing: Effects On Eighth-Grade Student Achievement
… key information about student achievement on high-stakes assessment. This post hoc, quasi-experimental, quantitative study explores how 1:1 laptop access affects student achievement on the mandated eighth-grade online science assessment in five Mississippi school districts throughout the …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of Integrating Webcam-Based Eye Tracking into Hazard Perception Assessments
… is fundamental to driver safety, yet current assessment methods, including those employed by the UK Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), rely primarily on reaction-time-based scoring and ofer limited insight into the attentional processes underlying hazard detection. Although …
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Special Education Teachers' Experiences and Perceptions of the Georgia Alternate Assessment
… with administering the Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA) to elementary students with significant cognitive disabilities and determine how those experiences informed their perception of the Georgia Alternate Assessment. The GAA was designed to assess students with significant cognitive …
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Exploring the Professional Responsibilities of Educators in Special Day Schools Serving Secondary Students with Emotional Disabilities
… in public schools, and the use of challenging assessments to improve the quality of instruction. Because students with emotional disabilities (ED) are more likely to attend special day schools outside of the public school setting, and less likely to be instructed in general education classrooms …
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Examining the Relationship Among Reading Curriculum-Based Measures, Level of Language Proficiency, and State Accountability Test Scores with Middle School Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners
… of oral reading fluency (R-CBM) on a sixth grade high-stakes assessment with ELL and non- ELL students, as well as determine the average rate of growth on R-CBM and how that relates to level of English Proficiency. The participants in the current study included 350 sixth grade students from a …
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Assessing the Validity of Multiple-Choice Questions, Using them to Undertake Comparative Analysis on Student Cohort Performance, and Evaluating the Methodologies Used
… within the final examinations. Ensuring that the assessment tasks and the items used within them are a valid method of determining student competency is an important part of reviewing the results of the assessments. Throughout this research all the MCQ assessment tasks and items used in first-year …
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Comparative pairs judgements for high-stakes practical assessments
Assessment of practical tasks, as opposed to that of theoretical tasks, has been considered to be problematic, mainly because it is usually resource intensive and the scoring is subjective. Most practical tasks need to be assessed on site or involve products that need to be collected, stored, or …
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Repositioning teachers and learners in senior science for 21st century learning
… secondary science education in the context of high stakes summative assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand. Significant in the set of assumptions and ideals associated with 21st century learning is the expectation that learning is more personalised to address and allow for diverse student needs and …
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The Contextual Variety existing between English primary school Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) within the East-Midlands Region
… school being influenced by the standards based, high-stakes assessment driven performativity-culture dominating the English Education system.<br/><br/>This issue was explored through a process of practitioner-research, underpinned by "Living Theory", using an interpretative paradigm which …