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Proposal Pitch for Standardized TestsSammy NorthDeVry UniversityProposal for Standardized TestsI.IntroductionA.Topic1) Research question: Have standardized tests in the United States improved schools or demonstrated stronger student learning achievement? 2) Working thesis: Standardized tests in the United States have not improved schools and should be abolished and replaced with end-of-year subject tests because they will save time and money, lead to increased mastery of core subjects, and diminish dropout rates.3) Angle: Standardized testing has made the gap between developed nations and the United States wider. Taxpayers and employers are paying the price of poorly educated graduates. No Child Left Behind has left nobody ahead, least of all our country’s educational standing among other developed nations.B. Context1) Issues in education are in the news because budget cuts and school closures are tied to student performance on standardized tests. 2) Though I am a novice scholar, I am a parent and care deeply about education. I will refer to the expertise of several sources that will establish my credibility regarding standardized tests. The ideas of Hillocks (2002), McNeil and Valenzuela (2001), and Ravitch (2011), who are all experts on this topic, will help to establish my credibility. C. Audience1) My primary audience will be educational stakeholders who are teachers, parents, or administrators. 2) My secondary audience is my professor and fellow classmates, some of whom may have experienced standardized tests or have school-aged children and will relate to the topic. 3) My audience shares my opinions and values and will likely be on my side. III. EvidenceResearch collected so farI have found support for the recommendation to remove poorly designed tests that don’t measure what they should. Federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind have spurred their growth and the reward-and-punishment system that serves nobody well, least of all the people these tests were intended to help: students. Research to be collectedI will look for additional facts and statistics to demonstrate the gap between other nations and the United States. I will also look for experts who agree that there are implications for taxpayers and employers to show that the issues of schools affect the public at large. Finally, I will represent the opposing viewpoint and others who have suggested alternatives to standardized tests, including no testing at all. Yearly subject tests are better than other alternate recommendations that have been proposed, such as portfolios, because these tests would be objective determinants of learning rather than subject artifacts of courses. III. ConclusionI propose that end-of-year subject tests will be successful in raising the standards and expectations of our students while decentralizing control of students’ learning away from the government and politicians and in the control of teachers who know their students best. This solution is also better than having no assessments whatsoever, as that is unrealistic and does not prepare students for higher education or the workplace. The benefits of yearly subject tests include the time and money that will be saved by switching to end-of year subject tests; the collective energy of stakeholders in education—students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the public—will also be put to better use. I will develop my project to support these claims with research. IV. ReferencesHillocks, G. (2002). The testing trap. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.McNeil, L., & Valenzuela, A. (2001). The harmful impact of the TAAS system of testing in Texas. In G. Ornfield & M. Kornhaber (Eds.), Raising standards or raising barriers? (pp. 127–150). New York, NY: Century Foundation.
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Question # 00020831 Posted By: mpdavis45 Updated on: 07/25/2014 10:34 PM Due on: 07/27/2014
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The research proposal will present the topic you have selected for your Course Project. The purpose of the proposal is to persuade your reader to believe that you are interested in the topic and ready to learn how to develop the topic into a project. The format of the proposal is a sentence outline. Use APA style to document any sources referenced in your proposal. When you are finished, save the document as <your last name.Wk3 Proposal Assignment> and submit it to the Dropbox by the end of the week.

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Week 3 APA Module Assignment

For this assignment, you will review materials in the DeVry library to help gain a better understanding of APA citations.

a. Click https://hub2.devry.edu/node/272
b. Listen to the tutorial or download and review the transcript on APA and answer the questions below

After reviewing the presentation, compose a 2-paragraph response in which you address each of the following points:

1. Why is APA Style used to document ideas in writing? What is the purpose of the in-text citation? Demonstrate your understanding of the in-text citation by providing an in-text citation for the article you summarized for the week 2 assignment. (15 points)
2. In the article that you summarized in week 2, you may have found some information that you want to quote directly. To demonstrate the process for citing a direct quote, provide an example of properly quoted material. (20 points)

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