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This text explores how students perceive their school environment changing as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act and the subsequent implementation of high stakes testing in their state. The research focuses on four questions: (1) What factual understanding do students have of how their test works, (2) What changes do students perceive their instructors making, (3) What changes do students perceive themselves making, and (4) How do students perceive the likelihood of high stakes testing achieving its stated goals. Results are disaggregated by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This text explores how students perceive their
school environment changing as a result of the No
Child Left Behind Act and the subsequent
implementation of high stakes testing in their
state. The research focuses on four questions: (1)
What factual understanding do students have of how
their test works, (2) What changes do students
perceive their instructors making, (3) What changes
do students perceive themselves making, and (4) How
do students perceive the likelihood of high stakes
testing achieving its stated goals. Results are
disaggregated by ethnicity, socioeconomic status,
gender, and special education status. The research
generated indicates that diverse groups of students
are motivated in different ways by high stakes
testing. Special education and minority students in
particular were observed to respond differently than
the overall student body. A secondary finding is
that despite the best efforts of schools to educate
their students about the function of high stakes
testing in their state, students continue to retain
misconceptions.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Weiss is a graduate of Penn State University. His doctorate
was completed at Wilmington University in Delaware where he has
worked for ten years as an assistant principal in the
New Castle County Vocational Technical School District. Dr.
Weiss was Delaware's 2008 Assistant Principal of the Year. He
and his wife Kimberly have three sons.