Standardized Testing
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...and student alike as the thing most dreaded in the school year. For the teacher, the testing process takes time away from instruction. For the student, the process is one filled with anxiety. The questions always remain: how can students really do well on them; how can the teacher and the school use the results? The following paragraphs describe research studies conducted to determine how much learning was occurring. Two separate research studies were conducted by the same researcher. Both involved the implementation of new curriculum and its effects on student achievement. Two school districts in the Mid-west made a strong commitment to using a whole language approach in their schools. The question that arose was: were students learning traditional reading and writing skills through this approach. It was a question of concern to parents as well as educators. The researcher, Rick Traw, gathered the standardized test results of several previous years and analyzed them against the results of the current year in each school district. The first district used the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT). The...
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