They do their curriculum development and revision in phases. ... When deciding if a curriculum needs to be revised, they look at student assessments (ACT, SAT, state tests, etc.). ... " Both of these answers compare very well with the research conducted. ... When asked what types of assessments Dr. ... After comparing the PECAT with my interview answers, I was surprised with how well my interviewee stacked up. ...

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The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades, if those states are to receive federal funding for schools. The Act does not assert a national achievement standard; standards are set by each individual state [OBr13]. ... One student proclaimed, "I just do not understand how I can be learning about the American Revolution one day and then the Great Depression the next" [Bla14]. ... Although elected officials had the right idea about the act when it first came into law, they should take into consideration that as time goes...

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It will also elaborate on its link to the Virginia State of Assessment Plan in local colleges, and how it ranks within different cultures and genders. ... Many of these colleges, Hampton University in particular, have done away with and do not accept the Accredited College Test (ACT) as means for acceptance any longer. ... This same gap was present when testing scores were cross culturally ranked as well. ... Virginia State Assessment also agrees that the SAT I is very effective, and it measures both verbal and mathematical reasoning in a well organized and concise manner that is effective fo...

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The personalization concept is useful in making the professional staff act as instructors instead of basic educators. ... The answers to Survey Area Number Two (The extent that faculty members are free to give their views and are involved in school decision making) was designed to rate how effectively the principal led the school. ... The administration did indicate that the school board does not include the school leaders in the decision making process. ... Gap Parents and faculty perceive that the principal is not using adequate capacity building strategies but administrators believe that th...

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The case study of Great Meadows mentioned that teachers were overwhelmingly positive regarding the new approach, but did not address aptitude as well as attitude. ... They also need to take professional development time to understand how their discipline can connect to other disciplines and develop knowledge they may not have, change assessment strategies and somehow prepare students for high stakes testing at the same time (Loepp, 1999). ... Great Meadows' plan for restructuring does not seem to address the issue of how teachers will ensure the material they share with students will be...

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The problems and their outcomes as well as the solution are the result of thorough research on these tests. ... The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act helped to fund these efforts. ... The thinking is that students and teachers will work and learn more if there are serious rewards or punishments; teachers get financial rewards and schools are lauded by the media if they do well, but teachers face termination, schools face closures, and students are retained or not allowed to graduate if they do poorly (Nichols, Glass, & Berliner, 2012). ... So their students are less likely to score...

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I think that this is a decent amount to pay for all the necessities in life as well as those additional extras. ... I find that this would allow for relaxation and act as a preparation for the new term or year. ... As teachers also have to do look after students during breaks in the school day which are often outside, teachers also have the opportunity to be in the outdoor environment as well as the indoors. ... She says that teaching is a very rewarding job, especially when she sees how students have improved over the year. ... In the fourth year at university, there are usually practical ass...

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The study focuses on the social problem of student achievement and understanding how parental involvement influences minority student achievement. It is important for parents, as well as school districts, to understand the role of parents and the districts in the success of students. ... The data will measure the influences student-led conference has student achievement on the Missouri Assessment Program test. ... These families do not have vehicles nor do they have the funds to purchase vehicles and often do not possess a driver's license. ... Bouffard and Stephens (2007) reported that r...

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Many students are placed in remedial education because they failed to study for the assessment test. ... If students have a better understanding of how basic skills affect their education, students will work harder to place in college-ready courses. ... Students also fail to complete basic skills since they do not know how to use the resources made available to them. Students do not know how to use student services like the writing center or the computer lab. ... Twenty percent of African-Americans were also required to re-learn basic skills as well as sixteen percent of Hispanics. ...

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Two-thirds of African-American and Hispanic students achieve well below grade level" (Chubb 1). ... An educational system which accommodates primarily to wealthier individuals is a broken system at best and is in need of proper assessment. ... "costing taxpayers an average of $292,000 over a lifetime due to the price tag associated with incarceration and other factors such as how much less they pay in taxes" (chubb 22). A student who does not get a diploma will pay less taxes, this is the correlation of education to economy that drains the U.S. finance. ... The No Child Left Be...

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Do repeated high failure rates send a red flag up to an administrator that the teacher's form of assessment is not viable? ... Now known as the Praxis, it continues to be a national professional assessment for teachers and administrators. ... "Iron clad tenure as well as aggressive union tactics allow a teacher to remain deeply embedded in the establishment as recertification takes place every five to seven years regardless if they do any actual teaching. ... Research reveals more about how the brain works, the importance of effective communication skills, and how learning is achieved. ....

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On the other side of the debate though, there are opponents of mandatory dress codes as well. ... Through all of the debate and statistics, it seems that one question still remains: Do school uniforms help reduce violence and improve discipline? ... We'd probably have totally different friends because we'd pick friends based on how they act, not on how they look." ... Without a careful assessment of the received statistics over a longer period of time, there is no one sure cause of the reduction in violence. ... Uniform implementation will be based most...

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The black white tests score gap does not appear to be an inevitable fact of nature. ... Another way to cross content bias is to abandon a priori judgments and simply ask how much the black white various from one question to the next. ... These and other factors of standardized tests have led critics to suspect that blacks might do poorly for reasons that have more to do with the method of assessment than with racial differences in actual skills. Standardized tests as well as other tests can lead to prediction bias. ... The Elementary ADEseondary School Education Act of 1964 funded compensa...

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Many students around the world today focus mainly one thing while they are in school; Career and income, but how do you achieve that? How does one get the career they want and the income they yearn? ... According to Pew Research Center, among all surveyed parents only 15% of all parents place pressure on their kids to do exceptionally well in school. ... An online China blog stated that an 11 year old girl had to commit suicide because of excessive parental and peer pressure to do well in school. ... An online media website shows how Georgia Hope Scholarship fund really pressurizes students to...

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By definition, a school rampage shooting is an act of terrorism without an ideological core. ... Intervention deals with minimizing the effects of violence when a violent act is already transpiring. Postvention has to do with how to assist the survivors of violence, when and if they are able to occur. ... The book discusses how educators and administrators in the school environment sometimes receive a very specific training, known as "threat assessment protocol, that can help them identify students who present a potential danger to themselves or others. ... He revealed the full spectrum of...

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Elementary and middle school had me thinking I was that awkward kid but when I finally made it to high school, I began to understand how communication with others really works and how to control it. Through the Spitzberg and Cupach Interpersonal Communication Competence Assessment, I was able to visualize and understand my communication strengths and weaknesses. ... I have always been bad at doing what I set out to do, or following through with what I tell myself I am going to do. ... She said, "What should we do now?... This is my lowest score because there are many times and situations ...

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This just shows how Filipinos value the importance of education. ... PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES A) Objectives The objectives of the Philippine educational system may be gathered from the Educational Act of 1982 , the Philippine Constitution and the Philippine Development Plan. ... Similarly, the very high average figure for private elementary schooling would be accounted for by just a small number of well-to-do families who choose not to send their children to public elementary schools. ... Even with these stipulations, table 9 does show how even public education is...

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This estimate does not include neonatal health care costs. ... In any assessment of the effectiveness of tobacco control programs in reducing teenage tobacco use, it is vital to understand why this is so. ... Accurate assessment of the effects of these programs requires and deserves more than a cursory look at trends in teenage smoking prevalence. First, the results of a considerable body of theory and research, as well as experience gained from the field, tell us that changing population smoking prevalence and sustaining this change, including among adolescents, is likely to be relatively sl...

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Where does the fate of desegregation stand now? ... Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the government to become involved to insure that school districts complied with desegregation policies by providing for assistance in helping schools comply, authorizing the attorney general to sue to obtain compliance and allowing for a cut-off of federal funds to any school guilty of racial discrimination. ...

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