SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1: Ruecker, T. (2013). High-Stakes Testing and Latina/o Students: Creating a Hierarchy of College Readiness. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 12(4). 303–320. DOI: 10.1177/1538192713493011

[This article examines how teachers at predominately Latina/o high schools teach literacy in preparation for the state’s high-stakes test and the subsequent influence of that testing preparation on the success of Latina/o students in college.]

Questions to Consider:

  1. Describe several ways the author states that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Federal Legislation’s high stakes testing and accountability requirements have impacted school teachers. 
  2. List a positive and also a negative way in which NCLB has impacted minority students.
  3. Describe the key connection the author found between college success and the test preparation students had undergone in advance of taking their mandated state test, the TAKS.

 

Article 1: Pietschnig, J. & Voracek, M. (2015). One Century of Global IQ Gains: A Formal Meta-Analysis of the Flynn Effect (1909–2013). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(3). 282–306. DOI: 10.1177/1745691615577701

[The Flynn effect is defined by the authors as the “rising intelligence test performance in the general population over time and generations.”This meta-analysis studies the results of over two hundred studies, across 31 countries, summing together the research findings in an attempt to better understand the causes and impact of the Flynn Effect.]

Questions to Consider:

  1. Discuss why the general rule of a “3-point growth in IQ per decade” is not considered to be as accurate as once thought, then describe the alternative theory supported by this study.
  2. Describe how environmental factors (i.e. education, technology, family size, etc.) are thought to influence the growth in intelligent test performance over time.
  3. Describe how biological factors (i.e. hybrid vigor, blood lead levels, nutrition, etc.) are thought to influence the growth in intelligent test performance over time.