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Shahid A. Choudhry; Timothy J. Muckle; Christopher J. Gill; Rajat Chadha; Magnus Urosev; Matt Ferris; John C. Preston – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2024
The National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) conducted a one-year research study comparing performance on the traditional continued professional certification assessment, administered at a test center or online with remote proctoring, to a longitudinal assessment that required answering quarterly…
Descriptors: Nurses, Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Computer Assisted Testing
Caroline Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the impact of attending a STEM-designated elementary school on students' math, ELA (English Language Arts), and science achievement and growth scores. As technology continues to advance in education, educators are exploring innovative instructional methods. With a concerning decline in math proficiency nationwide,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Magnet Schools, Grade 5, Mathematics Achievement
Laurie Liddick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
During the past few decades, Charter schools have been utilized as laboratories for educational innovation. Each year, more and more Charter schools open across the United States. These schools are governed the same way traditional public schools are, but there is research that suggests that inequalities exist in the representation and performance…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Metropolitan Areas, School Effectiveness, Access to Education
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Aaron Soo Ping Chow; Amanda Nabors – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Early-grade reading proficiency is well documented as in important factor for later academic success. Researchers and educators consider the achievement of reading proficiency by the end of grade three to be crucial to future academic success and financial independence (Hein et al., 2013; La Paro & Pianta, 2000; Singh, 2013). As…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Grade 3, Emergent Literacy
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – Blueprint Labs, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Charter Schools, College Readiness
Everett, Jeff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if and to what extent an ELL student's SBELP-RC could predict his or her ACPELA-RC, ACPELA-WP, and ACP-A1. Study participants were ELL students in Grades 9 to 12, attending a Northern Virginia high school. A further purpose of this study was to investigate if and to what extent…
Descriptors: Prediction, State Standards, Scores, Instructional Design
Abrams, Annie – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? The College Board says that AP classes and exams make the AP program more accessible and represent a step forward for educational justice. But the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Standardized Tests, High School Students, College Curriculum
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Levine, Sarah; Moore, Daniel P.; Bene, Emma; Smith, Michael W. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
In the United States, standardized tests shape what, how, and why English Language Arts teachers teach. For the last generation, these tests have increasingly taken a narrowly text-centered approach to literature, making it difficult to enact or research alternatives. But what if it were otherwise? In the current study, we asked teachers to…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Use, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Gibbs, Norman P.; Pivovarova, Margarita; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Statewide assessments in reading and math are required every year under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, at an annual expense of billions of taxpayer dollars. Analyzing 10 years of school-level results from public schools in two states-- Nebraska and Texas--we found that year-to-year correlations of schools' test scores were…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Standardized Tests
Dadey, Nathan; Evans, Carla M.; Lorié, Will – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2023
Through-year assessment is enjoying a surge of attention. A through-year assessment program is: (1) Administered in multiple distinct sessions during a school year; and (2) Intended to support (a) the production and use of a summative determination, and (b) one additional aim. More than a dozen states are designing, piloting, or implementing…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Accountability, Evaluation Methods
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Katrina Fulcher-Rood; Anny Castilla-Earls – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare child language assessment practices of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working in school and non-school settings to determine if their place of employment impacts the diagnostic decision-making process. Method: School-based SLPs (e.g., direct service providers employed in preschool and/or K-12…
Descriptors: Child Language, Speech Language Pathology, Language Tests, Allied Health Personnel
Taroucha T. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A court decision in California, Larry P. v. Riles (1979) case, ruled in favor of African American students who were disproportionately and wrongly placed in special education (E.M.R. -- educable mentally retarded) classes. Standardized intelligence tests were biased, discriminatory and failed to identify the academic need to support African…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Legislation, African American Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Ferrara, Francesca; Pozio, Stefania – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
In this article, we examine eighth graders' incorrect responses to a specific task on a national standardized assessment of mathematics. The task asked students to write the formula for the perimeter of a given figure as a function of a variable. We focus on incorrect responses to better understand students' difficulties with the algebraic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Standardized Tests, National Competency Tests
Lisa Goldsmith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This applied dissertation examined the use of technological tools in formative assessment activities. These phenomena have left teachers searching for timely methods to perform formative assessment or assessment for learning activities. The problem addressed by this study was that standardized testing, large class size, and increasing distance…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Cara Farnsworth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With high stakes testing in public schools, pressure for success prompts schools to implement intervention programs for reading and mathematics, often at the expense of extra-curricular and elective activities. Previous literature indicated a correlation between reading comprehension and mathematical understanding. This study examined the specific…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests
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