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Brian Uribe
Professor Bieber
English 115 Honors
10 November 2015
Annotated Bibliography
Balingit, Moriah, and T Rees Shapiro. "Poor, Hispanic School Focuses on Test
Prep, Sees Huge Gains. but Can It Be Replicated? (Posted 2015-01-10
22:32:49): An Experiment at Virginia's Carlin Springs Elementary Was Wildly
Successful. Can Others Replicate

It?." The Washington Post, (2015):. Web.

10 Nov. 2015.
Teachers at Carling Spring Elementary tailored their lessons towards
test preparation and

came out with results. However the teachers react

with mixed emotions as their classroom efforts are judged by how they did
on a test.
Brown, Sherron N. The Effect of Ready for Success, a Counselor-led
Intervention Program, on

Reading Scores of Hispanic and African

American 3rd Grade Students in Title One

Elementary Schools. n.p.:

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

Counselors are able to support and guide students to higher reading
scores. Students took

the FCAT and SSSDT to quantify differences in what

an intervention program can to do help students perform better.

Cooper, Samuel G. Taming High-stakes Anxiety Among English Language
Learners: The Test

Anxiety of Middle School Hispanic ESL Students and

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Understanding the Consequences. n.p.: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,
2007. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
Students and teachers were assessed and surveyed to determine test
anxiety found within

ESL students. Identified and determined the linguistic

discrepancies that would occur in

transferring learning development in

test-taking skills.
Keyim, Hasiyet. The Impact of the Accelerated Reader Program on
Elementary Students'

Reading TAKS Scores in an Urban Predominantly

Hispanic Title I School. n.p.: ProQuest

Dissertations Publishing, 2011.

Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

Conducted an investigation in the impact of the reading program,
Accelerated Reader,

had on students TAKS scores. Students who reached

their AR goal received a passing

grade on their TAKS, while students who

did not reach their AR goal did not receive a

passing grade on their TAKS.

Trevino, Anysia R. The Effectiveness of Alternative Certification Teachers

Versus Traditionally

Trained Teachers in Three School Districts in Texas

on Hispanic Students' Scores in 9th

Grade Algebra I: What Leaders

Should Know. n.p.: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,

2013. Web. 10

Nov. 2015.
Want to measure the effectiveness of an alternative certification
program versus a

traditional certification program on Hispanic

students Algebra I scores. The alternative

teachers students had

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performed higher on their Algebra I EOC than those from a traditional
teacher.