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Camphuijsen, Marjolein K.; Levatino, Antonina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In the education sector, media outlets have been increasingly active in reporting on standardized testing. The purpose of this paper is to identify the most recurrent discursive frames used by the Norwegian regional and local press when informing their readers about national standardized testing, and to explore whether differences over time and…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Discourse Analysis
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Lions, Séverin; Monsalve, Carlos; Dartnell, Pablo; Blanco, María Paz; Ortega, Gabriel; Lemarié, Julie – Applied Measurement in Education, 2022
Multiple-choice tests are widely used in education, often for high-stakes assessment purposes. Consequently, these tests should be constructed following the highest standards. Many efforts have been undertaken to advance item-writing guidelines intended to improve tests. One important issue is the unwanted effects of the options' position on test…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, High Stakes Tests, Test Construction, Guidelines
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Ersozlu, Zara; Blake, Damian; Usak, Muhammet; Hawken, Stuart – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Mathematics anxiety in initial teacher education is a growing issue that reflects on teacher quality and their student's maths anxiety and abilities. Previous studies have presented a range of different perspectives to mathematics anxiety. We aimed to explore further the reasons of mathematics anxiety in preservice teachers and suggest some…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Test Anxiety, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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García, Emma; Han, Eunice S. – SAGE Open, 2022
This paper examines the relationship between teacher pay and students' academic achievement, using nationally representative, district-level linked data between districts' performance on standardized tests and average teacher base salary. By employing state fixed effects and multilevel mixed effects models, we find that both mathematics and…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Standardized Tests
Texas Education Agency, 2022
This report presents Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance results in Texas public schools for the 2020-21 school year. Data are provided by student characteristics, including race/ethnicity; gender; and economic, at-risk, dyslexia, Emergent bilingual student/English learner, foster…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Test Results, Standardized Tests
Khue N. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate factors that affect decision-makers' trust in and reliance on algorithmic predictions as decision aids in the context of college admission prediction tasks. College admission officers often made predictions about the applicants' future success based on multiple pieces of available…
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Admission, Prediction, Academic Achievement
Stephanie Pacheco Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Standardized testing is generally regarded in schools today as the primary way to measure and determine student achievement. Student performance determines the degree to which schools, teachers, and students are identified as being successful. The problem being investigated by this study was that all students are spending too much classroom…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Standardized Tests
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Fallace, Thomas – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: Historical studies of this volatile period in educational history (1960-2003 tend to focus on educational policy and/or curriculum, but rarely address changes in learning theory. Numerous historical studies have traced how psychologists, psychometricians, policymakers, and social scientists have dismissed the intellectual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Culturally Relevant Education, African American Students, Educational History
Tierney, Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Standardized testing results in fourth-grade math have shown that students in the United States continually score below students in many other nations, despite funding education at levels well above the global average. The problem addressed in this study was that fourth-grade math students in the United States were not performing as well on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Bryan D. Lowe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to learn from the experiences of teachers who have had at least five Black middle school students (Grades 5-8) meet or exceed their performance level expectations on the English Language Arts TNReady assessment by identifying the factors that contributed to teachers' sense of efficacy related to their experience.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Middle School Teachers, African American Students, Middle School Students
Carlita Jones-Alford – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative within-groups comparative study was to determine if there was a significant difference between the 2019 (pre-COVID-19) and the 2021 (post-COVID-19) third grade Standards of Learning (SOL) reading and math scores in urban Title I elementary schools in a southeastern state. The conceptual framework for this study was…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students
Sheral Rena Page – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the retrospective quantitative cohort regression study was to identify predictors of success on the Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NGN-NCLEX-RN) and determine if changes are needed in the nursing program curriculum. Nurse educators and nursing administration are responsible for aligning…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bachelors Degrees, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Hawtin, Amy Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research suggests that school leaders' understanding and process of making sense of educational reform policies and/or laws is shaped by social, organizational, individual factors. This understanding can impact how a school leader understands and interprets the law/policy and ultimately may impact implementation actions. In 2016, Michigan's Read…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Madan Singh Deupa; Jyoti Deupa – Online Submission, 2023
The progress of the nation is based on the competencies of the citizens, and the overall development of the person depends on the effectiveness of the educational system implemented in the country. The teacher is a key factor in the implementation of educational programs. Without a favorable attitude toward the teaching profession, teachers cannot…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Rating Scales, Test Construction, Teacher Attitudes
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Collet-Sabé, Jordi; Ball, Stephen J. – Power and Education, 2020
Neoliberal policy technologies are spreading across the globe. Most go unrecognised and unopposed, but in some cases, they have provoked reactions and movements that reject or resist them. In this article we focus on one such movement of resistance, consisting of a network of families (the 'opt out' movement) that is boycotting the Standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
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