standardized tests

Welcome to the 'standardized tests' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'standardized tests'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “standardized tests”

• College Entrance Exams Tell Bad News

  
  The HomeScholar Blog — Authority: 424
  Here is an article that appeared in the Education Reporter:Results from both of the major college entrance exams demonstrate that few high school seniors are well-prepared for college. The 2008 ACT,... Need more help homeschooling high school? Check out www.TheHomeScholar.com to learn more.
  2 days ago

• Revisit school grading for elementary and middle schools, State Board member says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  The state revamped its high school grading system this year (with the first batch of new grades due out next year). Now it may well be time to rethink how Florida grades its elementary and middle schools, too, said State...
  3 days ago

• Teaching to the test

  
  DGreport.com — Authority: 133
  Who thinks No Child Left Behind is a good idea? I haven’t met any parent or teacher who supports it. Dgmom743 posed a question that for many of us has a clear answer:  No. Any law or practice that promotes standardized tests as the sole measure of achievement is not only a bad idea, it’s a treacherous one that ...
  5 days ago

• Tell Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein That You Oppose the Plan to Expand Standardized Testing to Students in Kindergarten through Second Grade...

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 435
  Tell Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein that you oppose their plan to expand standardized testing to students in kindergarten through second grade. Standardized tests do not appropriately measure the complexity of a young child’s growth and development... This is a campaign by Time Out From Testing to Stop ...
  1 week ago

• The Chicago Cubs and the Curse of a Stereotype (Part 2)

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Stereotype threat, a social psychological theory developed by Claude Steele and his colleagues, describes the fear experienced by members of a group that their performance might confirm a negative stereotype. This apprehension, as well as the added pressure to perform well, can increase anxiety and physiological ...
  1 week ago

• Interesting Topics for College Admission Essays…

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 155
  If you are seriously considering applying to college or any graduate school, part of the preparation that you cannot ignore, aside from taking the required standardized tests, is the preparation of a well-crafted college admission essay or graduate school admission essay, including MBA essay, as part of your ...
  1 week ago

• States Each Have Their Own Way of Standardizing Tests

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The Wall Street Journal’s John Hechinger reports out a Dept. of Education study that shows wild disparity in the level of difficulty between states when it comes to there 4th and 8th grade math and reading standardized tests. Hechinger focuses on states that made these tests even easier between 2005 (the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Studying for the SAT Cheating?

  
  The HomeScholar Blog — Authority: 424
  Is studying for the SAT considered cheating? Standardized tests may be your pet peeve.  Let’s talk about it!I recently signed up for your mini-course on the 5 mistakes parents make when... Need more help homeschooling high school? Check out www.TheHomeScholar.com to learn more.
  2 weeks ago

• I Am Shocked, SHOCKED, To Find Gambling Going On Here

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  Researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics have found evidence that “a majority of states may have lowered student-proficiency standards on state tests in recent years.”
  2 weeks ago

• From a Scorer with 15 Years Experience Inside the Testing Industry

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 507
  From an op-ed (ht to Monty Neill) in todays Christian Science Monitor by Todd Farley, author of Making the Grade: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry : NEW YORK - President Obamas "Race to the Top" initiative promotes an accountability in education that links teacher evaluations with student ...
  2 weeks ago

• From a Scorer with 15 Years Experience Inside the Testing Industry

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 507
  From an op-ed (ht to Monty Neill) in todays Christian Science Monitor by Todd Farley, author of Making the Grade: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry : NEW YORK - President Obamas "Race to the Top" initiative promotes an accountability in education that links teacher evaluations with student ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does Good Teaching Equal Good Test Scores?

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  In his New York  Times column praising the Obama administration’s “quiet revolution” on education, David Brooks writes ”there is clear evidence that good teachers produce consistently better student test scores.”   I ask this question not rhetorically, but in earnest: what is the “clear evidence” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Absurdities

  
  Higher Ed/ — Authority: 126
  I went to a workshop yesterday on rules I should know and came back with three pages of notes and two pages of ideas about a research project. It was a nice drive too. Mrs Muffet (our GPS, who sits on a tuffet) took me back home by way of a mountainous stretch of I-40, which was more excitement than I needed without ...
  3 weeks ago

• Barry G at Room for Debate

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 131
  The recently released national math test scores for 2009 are part of a growing body of lackluster results nationwide since the inception of the No Child Left Behind law. The exam, which has been deemed the “gold standard” of testing is hardly what one would call challenging with respect to math, and yet even so, ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Results Are In: The Nation’s 2009 Report Card for Mathematics

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  The NAEP released the 2009 Nation’s Report Card for Mathematics yesterday, and the results are pretty much the same as they were in 2007. More than 168,000 fourth-graders and 161,000 eighth-graders across the country participated in the assessment, responding to questions about number properties and operations; ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is Our Children Learning? No!

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The New York Times Sam Dillon reports that the implementation of No Child Left Behind has not changed scores for the 4 th and 8 th grade students on national, standardized math tests. George W. Bush’s goal was that every 4 th and 8 th grader by 2014 would score at the “proficient” level in these ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do You Ever Wonder If Kids Have Time to Wonder Anymore?

  
  TWO WRITING TEACHERS — Authority: 127
  This past summer Pam Munoz Ryan, author of two of my favorite read aloud books (i.e., Becoming Naomi Leon and Esperanza Rising) spoke at the TCRWP Writing Institute. Her speech, “Reading to Write, and Writing to Read” took the audience on a journey of what she called “an unchoreographed childhood,” which was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Michelle Rhee’s IMPACT on Teachers and Teaching

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  From the day President Obama gave his first major “education speech” last March, the current administration made it perfectly clear that tying teacher evaluations to student performance will be a priority in the national reform agenda. In fact, application guidelines for the $4.35 billion Race to the Top ...
  6 weeks ago

• Free Mensa Evaluation If You’ve Taken The GMAT

  
  Brain Training 101 — Authority: 103
  Have you taken the GMAT ? Did you score 95 percent or higher? If so, you qualify for membership in the high IQ society, Mensa ®. During the month of September, American Mensa is waiving its $40 application fee and will evaluate your GMAT scores for free! Deadlines 1) You must send in your application by ...
  8 weeks ago

Comments about standardized tests