As we can note from the score types and score profile generated from a student’s test results, the answer is layered: some students may appear to perform more poorly due to an overall weaker raw score, but at closer glance are spotted as extraordinarily talented in one area, and less ...
Educators are still adjusting to a redesigned STAAR. The tests now have a cap on multiple choice questions and more essays. Students take the assessment online. Texas’ superintendents have questioned the dramatic rise in the number of zeroes that students earned o...
The state suspended the STAAR test this past school year due to the pandemic. So all three North Texas superintendents said they're in the process of assessing all returning students to see where they are academically. Those test results will help guide the curriculu...
Elements of the incentive system triggered students' wish for student-to-student competition, which has been shown in the literature on traditional tangible rewards to stifle intrinsic motivation under certain conditions. The results of this study show that the design of the incentive system has the...
Our results show that the region is far from being able to feed the current livestock population and that it does not have the land to support the livestock needed to sustain current consumption patterns. However, the region could support a smaller livestock population with the implementation of ...