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Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

Abstract

This study examined the patterns, and discrepancies regarding concerns of principals with NCLB annual testing and school resource availability. An ethnographic approach was used to determine the attitudes of eight middle school principals from high resource availability, average resource availability, and low resource availability. From the responses of the participants, one of the themes that emerged was concerns with NCLB testing. The patterns which emerged for concerns with NCLB testing were: stress, finances, and content. Principals from all resource groups other than high resources spoke in detail about the stress that they felt NCLB testing was creating within their schools. Principals from high resource schools spoke about the financial impact that NCLB testing brought upon their budgets. Principals from high and low resource schools spoke from different perspectives about their concerns with the content of annual state tests.

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