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High-Stakes Testing And Special Populations, Gary H. Sherwin, Todd Jennings
High-Stakes Testing And Special Populations, Gary H. Sherwin, Todd Jennings
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
This opinion paper critically examines the use of high-stakes testing on special populations. Without appropriate accommodations, standardized exams are not valid for some students with special needs. Unfortunately, many classroom teachers who must initiate testing accommodations lack knowledge of appropriate accommodations and regularly fail to provide the necessary testing accommodations. The deficit understanding of testing accommodations makes comparisons between classrooms, schools, and districts invalid since some scores loose validity. Solutions specific to standardized testing and students with special needs are offered and a more encompassing solution to the problems incurred from these tests when used for high-stakes is suggested.
High-Stakes Testing And Assessment: One Is Not The Other, Enrique Murillo, Alayne Sullivan
High-Stakes Testing And Assessment: One Is Not The Other, Enrique Murillo, Alayne Sullivan
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
Since the institution of the common school and the advent of universal education, Americans have placed tremendous faith in public schools. Public education cultivates an informed citizenry, one of the pillars of a liberal democracy. But more importantly, schools are a repository for our common dreams of human potential and individual self-actualization. Because they so thoroughly shape the lives and life-chances of our youth, school issues are freighted with an emotional charge. Education remains the last fully public American institution, one in which millions of students cast their common lot daily and strive to become better readers, better citizens, better …
To Wonder, Wander, And Linger In The World Of Standardized Testing, Randall Wright, Alayne Sullivan
To Wonder, Wander, And Linger In The World Of Standardized Testing, Randall Wright, Alayne Sullivan
Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice
The standards movement began as a nobly-intended effort to establish a core curriculum—a template of knowledge and skills that would guide teaching and learning across the K-12 curriculum. Our attempts to standardize curriculum may have unintended and deleterious side-effect: The atrophying of the mind’s natural tendencies for exploratory play and inherently imaginative dimensions. This paper engages us in a critical remembering of our pedagogical relationships with children. It reminds us of children’s ways of being and asks how we might engage them in a rigorous appreciation of curricular literacies without thwarting their wonderful wanderings. Ultimately, we worry about the place …
Perceptions Of Gender Competence: Are Christian Colleges Different, Edee Schulze, Annette Tomal
Perceptions Of Gender Competence: Are Christian Colleges Different, Edee Schulze, Annette Tomal
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Perceptions of student and professor competence and respect were investigated through a survey of 2042 students from 77 liberal arts colleges, both Christian and non-Christian. The Christian schools are part of the CCCU (Council for Christian Colleges and Universities); CCCU responses were 78.5 percent of the total. Chi- Square and Mann-Whitney tests were used to determine if gender and type of college affected students’ responses. Two conclusions can be made about student competence and value: (1) male CCCU students are most likely to believe that male students are viewed as more competent than female students and (2) non-CCCU students are …
Getting Involved: A Typology Of Student Cocurricular Participation At A Christian University, John L. Hoffman
Getting Involved: A Typology Of Student Cocurricular Participation At A Christian University, John L. Hoffman
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Evaluating A Moral Thinking Assessment Model For Evangelical Christian Liberal Arts Colleges, Michael A. Hayes
Evaluating A Moral Thinking Assessment Model For Evangelical Christian Liberal Arts Colleges, Michael A. Hayes
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
A model using moral judgment and cultural ideology (political and religious ideology) for predicting moral thinking about critical social and political issues, developed by Narvaez, Getz, Rest, and Thoma (1999), was assessed for utility with students at evangelical Christian liberal arts colleges. Freshmen (N = 199) and seniors (N = 230) from 2 evangelical Christian liberal arts colleges participated, completing the Defining Issues Test 2, Inventory of Religious Belief, and Attitudes Toward Human Rights Inventory. The regression model predicted a significant amount of variance for the students in this study; however, the R2 value (.22) was much smaller than …
The Relationship Between Spiritual Well Being And College Adjustment For Freshmen At A Southeastern University, Robert E. Ratliff
The Relationship Between Spiritual Well Being And College Adjustment For Freshmen At A Southeastern University, Robert E. Ratliff
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The purpose of this study was to identify the possible relationship between spiritual well being and college adjustment in first-year college students. The Spiritual Well Being Scale and the College Adjustment Scales were administered. Relational analysis was used to investigate 91 college freshmen enrolled in a freshman seminar course at Charleston Southern University, Charleston, South Carolina. This relational analysis included both psychological and developmental aspects of college adjustment in nine specific areas of college adjustment: anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, family relationships, academic problems, and career problems. A statistically significant relationship was found between spiritual well …
Conceiving The Christian College, David M. Johnstone
Conceiving The Christian College, David M. Johnstone
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Building Partnerships For Service-Learning, Jeffrey P. Bouman
Building Partnerships For Service-Learning, Jeffrey P. Bouman
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
College Of The Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis And What To Do About It, Michael Lastoria
College Of The Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis And What To Do About It, Michael Lastoria
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Growth No. 5 (2005) - Full Issue
Growth No. 5 (2005) - Full Issue
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The full issue of the fifth edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.
In A Strange Land? Educational Identity And The Market System, Todd Ream
In A Strange Land? Educational Identity And The Market System, Todd Ream
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Scholarship And Christian Faith: Enlarging The Conversation, Jim Fereira
Scholarship And Christian Faith: Enlarging The Conversation, Jim Fereira
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Student Affairs Practice, Eileen Hulme
Rethinking Student Affairs Practice, Eileen Hulme
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Christian World View Integration: "A Believer's Role In Sanctification.", Don Shepson
Christian World View Integration: "A Believer's Role In Sanctification.", Don Shepson
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Serving The Millennial Generation, Todd S. Voss
Serving The Millennial Generation, Todd S. Voss
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Creating Flexibility In Teacher-Certification Policy To Ensure Quality And Equity, Flynn Ross
Creating Flexibility In Teacher-Certification Policy To Ensure Quality And Equity, Flynn Ross
Maine Policy Review
As do many states, Maine has requirements and standards aimed at having “well-qualified” teachers. While few dispute the need for such standards, Flynn Ross brings attention to one case in Portland where use of a standardized exam to certify new teachers was preventing well-qualified—but culturally and linguistically diverse—teachers from becoming certified. She chronicles the successful attempts of one group to petition the Maine State Board of Education to allow greater flexibility in the testing standards. In doing so, she points to a larger truth that well-intentioned policy goals may seek to achieve a greater good, but may at the same …