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	Moment (physics) Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In physics, the moment of force (often just moment, though there are other quantities of that name such as moment of inertia) is a quantity that represents the magnitude of force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.
		The SI unit for moment is the newton meter (Nm).
		The principle of moments is derived from Archimedes' discovery of the operating principle of the lever.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Moment_(physics).html (486 words)

	"Standardized Tests: Do They Ultimately Help or Hurt Students? " by Laurie Perez
		Since standardized tests have a great deal of power, students are forced to prepare for them rather than learn valuable knowledge, simply for the sake that they can graduate or enter into the program or school of their choice.
		While many people agree that standardized tests should be used as a means to gauge where schools are in comparison to others, 80 percent of respondents (in the Public Agenda study) did not want the results of a single test to determine whether a student should graduate to the next grade (Wood 2).
		Standardized tests have the ability to show parents and teachers where their students, as well as the school, stand in comparison to other schools.
	www.nd.edu /~frswrite/issues/2001-2002/Perez.shtml (2403 words)

	V.83 No.10 Pages 758-765/June 2002: Stiggins
		It is testimony to our societal belief in the power of standardized tests that we would permit so many levels of testing to remain in place, all at the same time and at very high cost.
		4 In addition to other standards, this joint statement expects teachers to be trained to choose and develop proper assessment methods; to administer, score, and interpret assessment results; to connect those results to specific decisions; to assign grades appropriately; and to communicate effectively about student achievement.
		Since our standardized assessments of learning have been developed by professionals and are currently in place, they are poised to detect any improvements in the level or rate of student achievement.
	www.pdkintl.org /kappan/k0206sti.htm (4649 words)

	Standardized Testing and Its Victims
		Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
		For decades, critics have complained that many standardized tests are unfair because the questions require a set of knowledge and skills more likely to be possessed by children from a privileged background.
		Standardized tests tend to measure the temporary acquisition of facts and skills, including the skill of test-taking itself, more than genuine understanding.
	www.alfiekohn.org /teaching/edweek/staiv.htm (2024 words)

	The Dispatch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But first let's ponder for a moment how it is that people who have never acquired a degree in education or been responsible for a classroom of students can become such experts on classroom instruction.
		The California standardized tests used in Gilroy were created by people who don't live in Gilroy and don't understand the unique learning requirements of our student population.
		Standardized testing is the opposite of individualized, or differential, instruction.
	www.gilroydispatch.com /printer/article.asp?c=8860 (719 words)

	CLL \| Resources \| Alberta Assessment Procedures
		Standardized tests assume that knowledge remains unchanged over time; what was learned in one context leads to only one correct response to a test question.
		The use of standardized tests reflects the high social value of the ability to recall trivial bits of information (Hunter, 1996) and a growing disregard for any type of academic skill which is not linguistic or logical in nature.
		The validity of standardized tests is questionable whenever there is an attempt made to generalize the subject-matter knowledge and the skills possessed by the students (Jantzie, 1996).
	www.ucalgary.ca /~cll/resources/assess.html (5241 words)

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		These tests are standardized in the sense that they are to be administered uniformly to the state's students and then scored in a predetermined manner.
		Standardized achievement tests should not be used to evaluate the quality of students' schooling because there are meaningful mismatches between what is tested and what is supposed to be taught, and those mismatches are often unrecognized.
		Standardized achievement tests should not be used to evaluate the quality of students' schooling because the quest for wide score-spread tends to eliminate items covering important content that teachers have emphasized and students have mastered.
	www.ascd.org /portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.83f4b2b5537730a98d7ea23161a001ca/?chapterMgmtId=6de244dbdecaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD (3988 words)

	Standardized moment - InformationBlast (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In probability theory and statistics, the kth standardized moment of a probability distribution is μ
		is the kth moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.
		The third and fourth standardized moments are used to define skewness and kurtosis.
	www.informationblast.com /Standardized_moment.html (67 words)

	Units: M
		The marla was standardized under British rule to be equal to the square rod, that is, 272.25 square feet, 30.25 square yards, or 25.2929 square meters.
		The international standard ISO 31 requires that angles be stated in degrees and decimal fractions of the degree, without use of arcminutes and arcseconds.
		The molar volume is the volume one mole of gas occupies at standard temperature (273.16 kelvins, or 0 °C) and standard pressure (1 atmosphere, or 101.325 kilopascals).
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictM.html (11925 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Standardized (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The truth about students of color and standardized tests: in order to understand the fl-white achievement gap, hearing from students of color, especially about standardized tests, can be extremely beneficial.
		Standardized patient experiences: evaluation of clinical performance and nurse practitioner student satisfaction.
		The maximum size of standardized and internally studentized residuals in regression analysis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Standardized&StartAt=51 (886 words)

	Standardized Testing
		In many states the results of standardized tests determine whether children are promoted to the next grade or graduate from high school.
		Standardized tests are just one of the ways that schools evaluate children’s abilities.
		The results won’t be known for weeks or months, so the best thing to do after the test, for both parents and students, is to breathe a big sigh of relief and then celebrate.
	www.menno.k12.sd.us /parenttips/StandardizedTesting.htm (522 words)

	Professional Development - Hot Topics - Assessment
		Standardized testing is helpful for diagnosing a student's ability to perform a discrete skill or recall discrete information.
		Standardized testing is limited when gathering evidence of a student's ability to use or apply these skills and knowledge in the context of "real life" problem-solving.
		The main downfall of standardized tests is not in their design, but in their use.
	www.phschool.com /professional_development/assessment/alternative_assessment.html (2310 words)

	Structures for Standards
		To fully outline the problems with standardized tests is beyond the scope of this article, but several points should be recognized by every concerned educator, including the failure of the tests to measure high standards and the failure of the tests to measure progress toward standards.
		At the end of the school year a standardized test is administered and the students in the wealthy school score on an average 85% and the students in the poor school score an average of 55%.
		Because standardized tests view all skills through the filter of the verbal-linguistic and mathematical intelligences, if every student is to be assessed on the same content in the same way, we create a strong bias in favor of students strong in the academic intelligences and against students strong in other intelligences.
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	THE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its standard score of 1.613 on power means that its magnitude is 1.613 times the standard deviation of of the 14 nations on their power; its score of 2.685 on the defense budget means its magnitude on this variable is 2.687 times the standard deviation for the data on the defense budget.
		Standard scores enable us to measure the variation of two variables and to compare their variation in common units (of standard scores) and magnitudes, regardless of their original units and magnitudes.
		Since the standard deviation is the square root of the variance (Definition 3.2), and the correlation is computed through data standardized by the standard deviation, we can translate the results back into variance terms by squaring the correlation.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/UC.HTM (11715 words)

	Standardized moment
		In probability theory and statistics, the kth standardized moment of a probability distribution is μ
		is the kth moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.
		The third and fourth standardized moments are used to define skewness and kurtosis.
	www.fastload.org /st/Standardized_moment.html (106 words)

	Definition of moment
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	On Standardized Testing
		Given the power of standardized testing in society, it comes as a surprise to many that the history of this form of testing is so short.
		Acknowledging that standardized tests overwhelm much of classroom practice, Harvard psychologist Sheldon White suggests that we are contending with "an affair in which magic, science, and myth are intermixed" (1975).
		Yet, standardized tests are rooted in standard curricular materials (basal textbooks, syllabuses, state or provincial guidelines) that have predetermined expectations all children must meet.
	www.udel.edu /bateman/acei/onstandard.htm (5871 words)

	The Questia Online Library
		By generalizing the concept of the standardized spectral density, I propose a new spectral tool suitable for both linear and nonlinear time series analysis.
		The standardized spectral density can be derived by property differentiating the generalized spectral density with respect to the auxiliary parameters at the origin.
		The consistency of a class of Parzen's kernel-type estimators for the generalized spectral density is establ ished, and their optimal convergence rates are derived using the integrated mean squared error criterion.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5002342430 (780 words)

	Examining Standardized Tests
		Y: Standardized tests have become more popular recently as Americans have grown concerned about the quality of their children's education.
		Standardized tests are hardly the be-all and end-all predictors of a child's ability and likelihood of success.
		In fact, studies show that the one thing that never fails to improve education is not increased spending on standardized testing, but increased spending on schools.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/tests.html (292 words)

	Simple Techniques to Improve Your Child's Standardized Test Scores - MSN Encarta
		Almost every state has adopted standards of instruction by grade level, which comprise the curriculum on which your child will be tested.
		No one runs a marathon on the spur of the moment, and no one should have to take an important standardized test without plenty of advance notice either.
		While standardized tests are supposed to be just that--standardized--if your child has a documented learning disability, a 504 plan, or an English as a Second Language background, he may be entitled by law to accommodations when testing.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/departments/elementary/default.aspx?article=simpletechniques (660 words)

	Archive of past issues of Critical Moment \| Critical Moment
		Cheating Our Kids: The Crisis of Standardized Testing in Public Schools by Nate Walker
		Lessons from the Class Struggle: The Detroit Teachers' Strike of 2006 by Rich Gibson
		What will Delphi's bankruptcy mean for Michigan by Fred David
	criticalmoment.org /topic/issue/issue_index (1124 words)

	U of M \|\| University News Service \|\| News Releases
		Nathan Kuncel, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and Sarah Hezlett of the Personnel Decisions Research Institute said that after 80 years of controversy about the value of such tests, their study reinforces the correlation between students' standardized test scores and success in their graduate studies and in their field.
		"Standardized tests from the GRE to the MCAT, and from the LSAT to the GMAT predict a lot of important and complex student outcomes, years after the test was taken, in fields ranging from the humanities to engineering, medicine, management and the law," Kuncel said.
		Most of these standardized tests combine verbal, quantitative and reasoning sections with field-specific knowledge.
	www.umn.edu /umnnews/news_details.php?release=070223_3174&page=NS (369 words)

	The Assessment Debate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The main reason that a good objective, standardized test is fairer than a good performance test is that, for a test of reasonable length, a good standardized test can probe a much larger and more representative sample of the subject (domain) being sampled.
		Having looked briefly into the history of the development of standardized tests to assess writing skill, one might wonder if a demand to replace a standardized with a prolonged essay performance assessment isn't a regression to the 1920s and 1940s, when less reliable essay tests were the only ones available.
		If machine-scored standardized tests were bringing less discouraging news, or if educationists could produce workable ideas about how to make their results better, educationists would not be so set in attacking standardized tests.
	my.execpc.com /~presswis/assdbt.html (2900 words)

	Do State Standardized Science Tests Bring out the Chicken Little in Us? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Recently, discussions of state standardized science tests have been spreading anxiety and dread in science department meetings and teacher lounges across the country.
		(Our state standards are based on the National Science Education Standards.) The goal is for the three tasks to be incorporated into the grades 6—8 curriculum, one at each grade level.
		As a result, students will have completed the tasks and be prepared to write the short essays for the related constructed-response items on the science section of the CMT given at the end of grade 8.
	www.nsta.org /main/news/stories/science_scope.php?news_story_ID=52654 (768 words)

	Assessment
		Assessment is an issue that is in the forefront of education at the moment.
		Standards based education and how to measure achievement is a key issue in the media and the political arena.
		This website is very interesting and informative especially on the topic of racial, class, gender, and cultural biases in standardized testing.
	members.tripod.com /CynthiaSparks/assessment.htm (1103 words)

	Supreme Steel Ltd - Dow Chemical Poly Train 3 Facility, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
		This was a very aggressive schedule when compared to the industry standard of 24 months for a project of this magnitude.
		Together, Dow Chemical and Supreme Steel Ltd agreed upon a set of standardized moment connections, column splices, and member sizes to be used.
		The electronic transfer of design information, standardized connection details and member sizes, and the automated structural detailing, together greatly reduced the time and cost of fabrication.
	www.supremesteel.com /projects1/dow/dow.html (848 words)

	Parents
		Standardized test scores add to our knowledge of your daughter’s/son’s ability, but we don’t make decisions simply on the basis of test scores.
		This time of year is a great moment to initiate conversations with your child to see if they have started thinking about college in general.
		While many institutions will say that standardized test results are still important (as they are an important tool for admission offices to be able to compare students from across the country), they are playing less and less of a role in college admissions decisions.
	my.cmu.edu /site/admission/page.persp_parent (2914 words)

	USATODAY.com - An answer to standardized tests (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Once considered an afterthought, standardized testing now drives education's most important decisions: whether students graduate, whether schools "need improvement" and even whether teachers keep their jobs.
		In the new test-driven world of education, the field of the moment is psychometrics.
		A fifth-grade teacher may be able to whip up a respectable math or reading test on a PC in half an hour, but it takes about 18 months to develop a standardized test that is challenging, fair, and comparable to previous versions and other tests.
	www.usatoday.com /news/education/2004-10-12-tests-usat_x.htm (1190 words)

	Semantic request and response for standardized Web services (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By standardizing the service request and response into an XML-based document that will be exchanged among service providers and service requesters instead of data objects and functions, the proposed approach for developing and using geospatial Web services will significantly improve the communication and implementation process for geospatial Web services.
		The goal of this research is how to standardize and simplify the implementation process of geospatial Web services in particular, and Web services in the general domain, to enable the service requesters to get the appropriate result without needing to know how service providers have developed the Web services.
		The next great challenge will be to standardize the service template into the XML document in order to build a new generation of Web services in the general domain with self-describable data and service semantics.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/webservices/library/ws-semantic (4320 words)

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