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Direct linkMorgan, Hani – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
In the twenty-first century, the use of standardized tests as the primary means to evaluate schools and teachers in the United States has contributed to severe dilemmas, including misleading information on what students know, lower-level instruction, cheating, less collaboration, unfair treatment of teachers, and biased teaching. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedO'Connell, Edward J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Data from a study of teacher-bias and teacher-expectancy effects on elementary school students' achievement test performance are presented. Analysis of the data revealed that the teacher-bias manipulation had no effect and that the teacher-expectancy manipulation was strongly related to test performance. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Elementary School Students, Expectation
Download full textBianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
The Anchor Test Study (ATS) yielded equating tables for vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores for eight commonly used reading tests at the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade levels. Because of the original ATS sampling design which resulted in a nationally representative sample of school children at those grades, the equating tables…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade four, organized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade five, organized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade six, origanized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores
Dusek, Jerome B. – 1973
Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of adult expectations on children's learning and performance; one in-classroom study and two experimental studies were made in order to investigate developmental trends in susceptibility to expectancy effects and the relationship of induced vs. self-generated expectancies vis-a-vis children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bias, Childhood Attitudes
