Standardized Testing: Good or Bad? If someone was to ask you “how do you define student achievement?” what would your answer be? Would you say student achievement is measured by state achievement tests? Or would you say that student achievement is too complex a subject to be objectively measured? There are many important skills students must be taught, and we need a way to effectively measure if they are in fact learning those skills. However, standardized tests cannot effectively show the learning…
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Why is it mandatory that we take standardized tests? Standardized tests do not measure a person’s ability. If a student’s tests score are high then people think that teachers are effective but, if a student's test scores are low then people think that teachers are ineffective. There are many reasons why standardized tests should not be mandatory, scores don't provide an accurate educational effectiveness, test developers are obligated to create a “one size fits all test”, there is little research…
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Standardized testing is used widely around the world to measure several things, typically pertaining to education. These tests hold all students who take that test to the same standard, which only differentiates between grade levels. Although these tests provide some information on students’ and teachers’ academic and instructional progress respectively, these tests have critical flaws, and the results for a particular student can be altered greatly by something as simple as the test taking environment…
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depending on the situation. Tests, for example, has a tendency to make you feel the time is moving too fast. Tests are very important to our curriculum because they offer the best way to check how much the student has learned, but standardized testing has a lot of issues that need to be addressed. That is why the way standardized testing is used needs to be changed because it will save the school money, schools will have an easier time dealing with the standardized test, teachers will spend more time…
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Standardized testing is, “Any test that’s administered, scored and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner”. Standardized tests have been used since the seventh century by the Chinese to their government applicants. Standardized became a big thing to the U.S. after the industrial revolution when students were being encouraged to return to school, these tests were a good way to get an educational standard from everyone quickly and efficiently (Is the use of Standardized Tests Improving Education…
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Standardized Testing: How it’s Affecting American Education The United States is falling lower in education ranks while other countries are climbing, and there is a potential contributing factor: excessive standardized testing. America is ranked 17th in science and 24th in math (reading was exempt due to a printing error) out of 57 other countries. (Wilde) Although the United States is in the middle of the group and not the lower end, as large and diverse as the country is, one would think that…
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changed is the use of standardized testing to measure a student's understanding. Standardized testing dates all the way back to the 1800s. Many schools still use standardized testing today to measure the knowledge and understanding of their students, or so they think. Standardized tests are unreliable in measuring performance and should not be used to measure a student's knowledge due to diversity, the hindrance of creativity in the classroom, stress, and discrimination. Standardized testing is unreliable…
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ACT. It is important to know about standardized test because it is something that will and have impacted people's lives over years. Today we will discuss the way colleges rely on standardized test to help them admit students into theirs schools and how this system is failing to acknowledge that these test can’t determine how smart a person is. I am here to talk about colleges abolishing the reliance on standardized tests because I know people who is really smart but are not good test taker,…
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The term standardized testing is used quite often in today’s society. But, what makes a standardized test a standardized test? There are a few characteristics that a test must have to be considered a standardized test. Some of the things, according to the book “Standardized Testing in Schools” by Holly Dolezalek include, that everyone who takes the test must receive the same set of questions, the test takers must take the test in the same conditions, they get the same instructions and have the same…
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Standardized tests have been an affliction for students life in America since the mid 1800’s. Now that the tests in many states are getting harder in order to align with the new Common Core standards and being used to grade teachers, not just students, they’re also creating a lot of anxiety among parents and teachers, too. For years they have been creating these test, but are they worth it? America has been spending millions of dollars, when they could be using it for a better cause. Many supporters…
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