High-Stakes Exams
Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, and the Achievement Gap
... 15 exams to graduate from high ...a high school diploma, which has had a disparately large effect on low-income students and students of color, who are less likely to pass standardized ...a ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STAND AND DELIVER: EFFECTS OF BOSTON'S CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS ON COLLEGE PREPARATION, ENTRY, AND CHOICE
... charter high schools translate into gains on longer-run outcomes like SAT scores, Advanced Placement test-taking and scores, college attendance, and college ...for high-stakes exams required ...
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Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple Choice Questions in a High stakes Medical Exam
... of high-stakes ...a high-stakes medical exam, where all questions were deliberately written to a common reading ...other exams containing ...
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Cultivating the myopic learner: the shared project of high and low-stakes assessment
... Both high and low-stakes testing as they have been developed in recent years demonstrate a similar disposition towards ...power. High-stakes testing is commonly associated by its critics with ...
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Stories of Principals’ Roles as a Result of High Stakes Teacher Evaluations in Louisiana
... Recent teacher evaluation policy has set a precedent for a new type of school leader. School leaders are now required to evaluate classroom instructional practices in high- stakes teacher evaluations. ...
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Subjective Cues to Deception/Honesty in a High Stakes Situation: An Exploratory Approach
... different high stakes contexts requires investigation; relatedly, the factors which may underlie the production of the cues (such as emotional authenticity, norm violation, and the personal reaction ...
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High stakes lies: police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception
... detect high‐stakes deception; this implies that, at least in some contexts, police officers utilise reliable cues to ...world, high stakes ...
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Effects of Focused Instruction Process (FIP)on Student End-Of-Course Test (Predicting End-Of-Course Test Using Teacher-Made Test)
... In the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, the school had another principal. An associate principal was also hired to oversee the 7th and 8th grade students. Housing the middle school and high school on the ...
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Borderline grades in high stakes clinical examinations: resolving examiner uncertainty
... demonstrated high efficacy of the OBM2 when applied to a common OSCE setting where the pass/fail decisions were made based on assessment marks within a station ...
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The Child, the Heart, the Arts—The Literacy Game: High Stakes and Risk Avoidance
... brows high, waiting until all little faces have turned to her and a transient silence descends, her timing as perfect and as slick a seasoned performer – make them pop! ...
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Math, Class, and Katrina Aftermath: The Impact of Experiences Teaching Mathematics to Low-income Middle School Students on Middle-income Teachers’ Pedagogical Strategies
... Should education be universally child-centered: teaching students to think critically, problem-solve collaboratively, construct knowledge from thought and experience, acquire the fundamental skills needed to become ...
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Stakes and Beliefs
... enhanced stakes. And a countable book of wagers all on p (at diminishing stakes to keep the sum finite) is a wager on p at enhanced ...enhanced stakes is not proportional to the enhancement of the ...
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Standing united or falling divided? High stakes bargaining in a TV game show
... Bargaining is ubiquitous in our professional and private lives. Not surprisingly, bargaining has received considerable research attention. Because real-world settings generally entail a lack of control, most empirical ...
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An exploration of the determinants of applicant fairness perceptions in high-stakes selection settings
... In a longitudinal study of applicants for a manufacturing organisation, Macan et al 1994 found that perceptions face validity and fairness of a cognitive ability test battery and an asse[r] ...
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Development of competency models for assessors and simulators in high-stakes selection processes
... Selection centers often make use of several high-fidelity work sample tests, also known as ‘‘role plays’’. These have been shown to exhibit high criterion-related validities (Wyatt et al. 2010) and are ...
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Transforming exams how IT works for BYOD e Exams
... This paper is about the e-Exam solution that has been developed as part of a three year Australian government innovation and development grant (OLT, 2015). The project aims to develop a comprehensive approach to doing ...
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The Effect Of Emphasizing Key Vocabulary On Student Achievement With English Learners
... for high scores on the state-mandated test that they have little time to teach anything not covered on the test” (Pedulla et ...and high-stakes testing on the experiences of pre-service teachers in ...
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University Entrance Exams from the Perspective of Senior High School Students
... of high school students‟ regarding the university entrance ...university exams (Yelkenci, 2013; Yıldırım, 2004; Yıldırım, 2007), the effects of private teaching institutions on success in the university ...
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THE PRIVATE SECTOR RESILIENCE. Jack Radisch Programme Manager OECD High Level Risk Forum Public Governance and Territorial Development
... The case of a flood of the Seine: major stakes located inside the flood plain. stakes located inside the flood plain[r] ...
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Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Today s Security Threats
... How common a problem are data breaches among small and mid-sized businesses? A 2013 study by The Ponemon Institute found that 55 percent of small and mid-sized businesses had experienced a data breach, and half of those ...
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