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From policy networks to policy preferences: Organizational networks in the opt-out movement
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020 Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of ...
Nancy Green Saraisky, Oren Pizmony-Levy
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Testing standards for sporicides [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2011 Sporicidal products are of considerable importance in healthcare environments due to the requirement for products that are capable of dealing with contamination with Clostridium difficile spores. Sporicidal testing standards to validate the claims of sporicidal activity are an important tool in the evaluation of commercial sporicides.
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Opting out: Parents creating contested spaces to challenge standardized tests
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 We explore how the opt-out movement has responded to the combination of a stringent federal policy with weak and often variable implementation among the states.
Dana Mitra, Bryan Mann, Mark Hlavacik
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Standardized Test Results: An Opportunity for English Program Improvement
HOW, 2017 This case study explores the relationship between the results obtained by a group of Industrial Engineering students on a national standardized English test and the impact these results had on language program improvement.
Maureyra Jiménez +2 more
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ON THE STANDARD LENGTH OF A TEST* [PDF]
ETS Research Bulletin Series, 1950 ABSTRACTA new concept, that of the standard length of a test, seems useful in simplifying formulas for reliability and validity coefficients for tests of altered length. The usefulness of the concept is a consequence of the fact that it is possible to define a unit of test information, this being, in fact, the amount of information in a test of ...
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Questions Vives, 2011 This article aims to analyze the growing influence of international standardized tests (PISA...) on local certifications. Originally, these international standardized tests aim to compare student performance in the different countries so as to enable ...
Xavier Roegiers
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Ingeniería e Investigación, 2023 This paper describes a gender-based research work on academic performance in engineering students. This study is based on the results of 9 469 students from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the college`s Admission and exit standard tests (the latter ...
Luis Eduardo Gallego-Vega +1 more
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Results of standardized government tests: an educational quality indicator
Frontiers in Education, 2023 Considering the advances of standardized government assessments and their impact on the quality of education around the world, the aim of this paper was to characterize the influence of the results of the Saber 11 standardized test on Colombian public ...
Sandra Barragán, Eliacid Marcelo
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THE STANDARDIZED TESTS. SCHOOL USES OF THEIR RESULTS
Ra Ximhai, 2019 This quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research was developed upon the question: What do schools do with the results of standardized tests? The population was made of basic education teachers that belong to the Center-South region of Chihuahua ...
Albertico Guevara-Araiza +2 more
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Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014 Over concerns about private school students’ advantages in standardized tests, beginning in 1995–96 the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) implemented a new admissions formula that reduced the weight they previously had in the General Admissions Index (GAI),
Horacio Matos-Diaz, Dwight Garcia
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