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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"standardized assessments"”.
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Exploring Pupil-Perceptions of Computer-Mediated Standardized Assessments
… used Chromebooks to take their Smarter Balanced Standardized Assessments (SBAC) in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The study began in 2015, the first year in which SBAC was administered to students across California and other states, at four different settings in one local unified high …
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"Build Your Own Adventure" ACT Prep Manual: Beating the Odds of High-Stakes Standardized Assessments
Today's focus on high-stakes standardized tests has had a massive impact on education throughout America, and standardized test preparation is one of the ugly, open secrets of education. Ever since 2001 when President Bush signed into law No Child Left Behind (NCLB), a bipartisan reauthorization of …
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Are All These Elementary Assessments Necessary? Phenomenological Study of Standardized Assessments in the Elementary School Setting
… 20-25 hours are spent by each student taking standardized assessments, according to a comprehensive report of 66 of the nation’s large-city school districts by the Council of the Great City Schools. Standardized assessments measure about 2.3% of the classroom period for the regular …
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An Investigation of Factors Identified By Novice Teachers That Influence Performance on Standardized Assessments and Teacher Performance
… on a number of steps or phases involving standardized assessments and performance assessments. The relationships between and among the variables incorporated in such instruments are typically assumed, but not necessarily substantiated. Furthermore, the relationships between the variables …
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The Effect of Standards Based Grading on Student Achievement on Standardized Assessments: Is There a Programmatic Effect?
… recent years, there has been a shift back toward standardized assessment scores as an accountability metric for school districts from state policy makers. In response, Standards Based Grading has become a popular reform among school districts as a means to provide a greater predictability of …
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Associations Involving Open Court Reading in Kindergarten and Student Performance on Standardized Assessments in Reading in a Tennessee School System.
… reading achievement on the <em>Terra Nova</em> standardized achievement test in the first grade. The study involved first-grade students who attended kindergarten in one school system in East Tennessee. Using a quantitative design, this study included the first-grade <em>Terra Nova</em> scores …
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An Examination of the Relationship between Students' Use of the Fast ForWord Reading Program and Their Performance on Standardized Assessments in Elementary Schools.
… achievement of students through the use of standardized testing to examine the relationship of participation in a computer-based phonics instructional system called <em>Fast ForWord</em><sup>®</sup>. The sample included students enrolled in the fifth and sixth grades at four elementary …
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Effects of Sertraline Treatment for Young Children with Fragile X Syndrome: Family Perspectives via Case Studies
… on the child’s daily occupational performance. Standardized measurements are frequently utilized and provide useful information, however, can be less sensitive to change (Berry Kravis et al., 2013) and miss capturing family perspectives and improvements within meaningful occupations. This …
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The use of habit reversal training in the treatment of trichotillomania: a single subject design
… used were direct observation, daily logs, and standardized questionnaires. The standardized assessments were the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC, March, 1998) and the Trichotillomania Severity and Impairment Scales (Swedo et al., 1989). In the study, the introduction of …
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The Relationship of Interactive Instructional Technology-Rich Classrooms to High-Stakes Reading, Math and Science Test Results for Fifth Grade Students
… and either passing or failing high-stakes standardized assessments in reading, math and science at the fifth grade level. Through the use of a binary logistic regression model, a statistically significant relationship was noted between students having access to this technology and passing …
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The Influence of Community Demographics on Student Achievement on the Connecticut Mastery Test in Mathematics and English Language Arts in Grade 3 Through 8
… the United States for decades through the use of standardized state assessments. The purpose of this study was to examine which combination of 15 out-of-school community demographic variables best predicted and accounted for the most variance in a Connecticut school district’s percentages of …
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Addressing bullying of children who stutter
… as well as a combination of informal and standardized assessments that can be used to monitor intervention outcomes for both clients and their primary stakeholders. By effectively addressing bullying, SLPs can promote better retention of speech therapy goals as well as increase quality of …
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An Analysis of Gifted Identification for Elementary-Aged Students in A High Performing School District: A Program Evaluation
… process and data collected through standardized assessments used within the school district. An analysis between the top performing 20% of students over four years was made in comparison to the children that met criteria for inclusion in the gifted program. As a result of the …
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The Effects of Blended Learning on Student Achievement within Various Environments: A Program Evaluation
… extant data from Achieve3000®, State Standardized Assessments, as well as qualitative data through teacher, parent, and student surveys. I collected 229 student extant data points over one school year with 10 teachers, 38 parents, and five students participating in the statement …
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Beyond static representations: development of a multi-channel, dynamic assessment of emotion perception
… of emotion expressions in terms of developing standardized assessments of emotion perception skills. Recently, several researchers have called for the field to move beyond the emotion stimuli based on posed expressions of high signal clarity (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002; Ambadar, Schooler, & Cohn, …
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What does it mean to sound African American? Teachers' perceptions of school-age children's communication
… as their job to prepare children for success on standardized assessments and in society at large. Whether intentional or otherwise, school currently serves as a vehicle for perpetuating standard language ideologies that denigrate AAE.
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Early Identification of At-Risk LPN-to-RN Students
Nurse education programs are implementing standardized assessments without evaluating their effectiveness. Graduates of associate degree nursing programs continue to be unsuccessful with licensure examinations, despite standardized testing and stronger admission criteria. This problem is also …
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Investigating the Self-Assessment of Adult Literacy Learners with Dyslexia across Several Cognitive Domains
… (n = 10) who were administered the same three standardized tests. This data was collected by administering three standardized assessments. This was a quantitative study that used analysis of variance (ANOVA), repeated measures ANOVA, and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to determine if there …
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Predicting New Jersey High School Proficiency Test Results in Mathematics and Language Arts Using Community Demographic Data
… to influence student achievement on high-stakes standardized assessments. School level data included percentage of families in poverty for 12 months, percentage of lone-parent households (total), and percentage of population with some college. Final analysis utilized hierarchical linear …
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