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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Studies of the content and process of environmental education.
(2002)
In order to examine the extent to which four-year institutions in the U.S. provide for the environmental education of students in nonenvironmental majors, and to identify various approaches to increasing environmental ...
The relationship between developmentally appropriate practice and social behaviors of third-grade students.
(2001)
This study examined the relationship between the social behaviors of third grade students (N = 47) enrolled in 4 classrooms, and the developmentally appropriate practices demonstrated by their classroom teachers. Teachers ...
Teaching with the data in mind: Using Oklahoma achievement test results to close the gap for No Child Left Behind.
(2004)
This qualitative study investigated successful practices of "highly effective" elementary teachers as they used Oklahoma State achievement test data to close the gap for all student subgroups in fulfilling the mandates of ...
It is the process, not the test: A mixed method study of a professional learning community at one elementary school in Oklahoma.
(2006)
The juxtaposition of the quest for reaching accountability benchmarks and the desire for meeting students' individual needs has created a problem for district administration, site principals, and school staff. As a result, ...