Some of society seeks to abolish standardized testing. ... All students are assessed equally, because the same test maybe different versions are given, with no regard to sex, gender, or ethnic background. ... All test are made fair! ... These standardized test set the standards for all students to reach and break all boundaries; still, those that oppose this testing claim that these tests are racially discriminatory. ... Possibly this is the cause for the different test scores between children of different socioeconomic classes and not the test itself. ...

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(Price, 1997) At the same time; several studies have focused on the relationship between job satisfaction and many concepts such as age, gender, pay, commitment, turnover and productivity. ... This study tested the relation between job satisfaction and education, working in area of self-interest/education in the some plants of forest industry in Turkey. ... The other 19 questions related to employees' demographic characteristic such as age, gender, education level, etc. ... White Collar Blue Collar Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Gender Female 12 3...

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Social class and minority ethnic groups are main reasons for attainment gap, but gender is still significant. ... However, despite the gap between gender attainment, gender is not one of the main reason for difference academically and focus is still on minority ethnic groups and social classes. ...

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In the review" The Multiple Choices of Sex Education: Giving A Quiz or a Test After Sex Education Courses May Not Be The Best Way To Ensure That Students Use What They've Learned in Class To Make Good Decisions After Class (Hamilton, Sanders, Anderman; 2013) students that learn through role playing activities are more likely to master skills to get out of certain situations where they are likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors. ... In this matter, a parent might not have enough knowledge to guide their child(ren) of the opposite gender on sex. ...

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Regardless of a person's gender, background, or social welfare status, everyone should have an equal chance to make the most of their skills.  ... Fourth, Finland´s educational system does not find it necessary to test the school and the students with standard assessments. The main reasons for this are that they prioritize individuality and creativity, so they test each student on his individual progress. ... Furthermore, they want to avoid teaching exclusively for the tests and competition among students, because they think that testing must positively affect the student´s learning, n...

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Although there were some differences found between genders, grades, and racial/ ethnic backgrounds. ... He used information gained from the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT), as well as 19 quantitative studies, data received from the discipline referral offices, list of absenteeism, and interviews with the student body and staff to write this dissertation. ... We will then compare the percentages of schools without uniforms to schools with uniforms and the t-test will show us if there is a strong correlation between the behavior and uniforms or not. ...

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No matter what type of education we consume, there is no guarantee that we have actually learned it, despite tests passed and degrees earned.. ... (Giddens, 1993) Inequality within schools is not disputable among most sociologists, the consequence of social origins; ethnicity, culture and gender all have significant values on the attainment in schools. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "previous training". ...

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One would think that with such a dramatic increase, test scores of students would have increased as well, but that is not the case. ... People continue to pay more and more money to this department, when the test scores of the students barely move. ... These requirements are "establish learning standards, create annual assessments to measure student progress in reading and math in grades 3-8 and once in high school, set a level at which students are considered proficient in tested areas, and report to the public on what percentage students are proficient, with the information broken down by ra...

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Diversity The general definition of diversity has traditionally be referred to as the gender or race of an individual. ... Individual differences refer to gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status, religion, and political affiliation. ...

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Diversity The general definition of diversity has traditionally be referred to as the gender or race of an individual. ... Individual differences refer to gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status, religion, and political affiliation. ...

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Researchers reported that parental involvement positively affected the grades and math test scores of adolescent students, decreased the odds of a student dropping out of high school, had positive effects on the grades of high school seniors and the amount of time in higher ability mathematics groups (Carter & Wojtkiewicz, 2000). ...

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The curriculum was very gender segregated at this time, and remained so for decades; with girls taking sewing and needlework, and boys taking military drill, in the event of them needing it in the future (The Education Act, 1877). ... During this time, education had become increasingly more gendered; with boys taking woodwork; and girls taking homecraft, as the view was girls were only going to marry and bear children so they did not have to be taught any complex skills (McGee and Cowie, 2008). It would not be until the 1970s that girls and boys had a full range of technology classes, and were...

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According to Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind, (2006) in order to be of real value in decision-making, these classroom tests must possess two important characteristics, namely: validity and reliability. ... Harlen's study showed high evidence on teacher's bias when it came to children's character, behaviour, gender, and special education needs. ...

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In a collection of gifted education articles consolidated by the Roeper Review, one editor states: Tracking involves sorting students according to a general measure of ability or achievement, such as IQ, achievement tests, or GPA, intotracks? ... Because of this, ability grouping has become somewhat of a taboo in our society, as it touches on controversial topics of socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity, and gender. ...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the field. Educational technology flourished in the 1950's and continues to play an important role in many colleges of education. The particular sub-discipline of educational technology we will explore in this paper does not have a long history. Information technology and teacher education (ITTE) i...

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Introduction In this world of plurality and polivocality, it has become a challenge for both educators and learners to negotiate their voices and opinions on a number of things the way that they should move forward and hence give the pedagogy a go, keeping the tunnel open for any sort of heightened ...

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