Having a test-optional policy will strengthen the diversity of colleges and open more opportunity for those who need it to be successful. A standardized test is not a proper strategy to determine whether a student should be admitted to a school or not. They do not exemplify most of the specific qualities a student could bring to college or gain in the future. Due to colleges eliminating the necessity of standardized test during the admission period, students are being accepted to schools that can
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take any test? I belief people should think this is helpful because you have you will not have to be testing anymore. I agree this because it's easier to work with you wont need to study much more or have more things to focus on at once. Standardized test is more helpful because less work, less stress,more time to study on or work on. First, I belief standardized testing is not helpful because more things are helpful that are gave to you. While you stress having to take big tests that means
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narrow in on the effectiveness of standardized test as it relates to reading comprehension. Almagor claims that standardized test are good for letting schools and families know where their children stand compared to other children nationally. He also addresses the negative aspects of standardized test in saying “good reading” can’t be measured properly through multiple choice questions. It is clear that the author does recognize that standardized test can
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many tests and they are very expensive. We should not have standardized testing because of the bad things that could occur! One reason why we should not do standardized testing is because it causes stress. Stress if one thing that might occur when testing is coming or is present. Going home
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But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend it's whole life thinking it is stupid,” by Albert Einstein. Should students take standardized test? Students should not because it takes too much time, it puts stress on them, and we can take them but not that many. First of all, students take too much time on test. According to Newsela, students spend 22-25 hours, and use 2.3 percent of classroom time on testing. But, some would say that it might take up time but it’s showing
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“These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned.” That’s what the creator of standardized tests Alfred Binet stated about the tests after seeing how they affect people. Standardized tests have shown little learning progress of the last couple years, they do not show what is actually important in a person, and they unfairly rank teachers. Over the past few years standardized tests have shown little learning progress. Even though standardized tests claim to study the way students
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Standardized tests like the SATs and the ACTs or other national and state exams are supposed to measure the student’s abilities and what they learned during the year, but are passing score limits measuring how good students did during the school year? To have an average grade in a class a student needs a C, yet on the end of year test a student can get an F and still pass. To me that’s not measuring what a student has learned and accomplished during the school year, if they can barely pass the test, passing
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time. This all happens at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Many tests take 1 to 2 days when others, have a duration of 2-3 weeks. As an employee of an elementary school, I have had many years of preparation and participation of such events. All employees must sign affidavits before administration of tests occur, and all materials are delivered and picked up on a scheduled timeframe. “Standardized Tests are a type of exam that assess the student’s capability on the
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Although standardized tests have their many uses such as giving a checkpoint for where a student is in a course, It is still believed that it needs to be changed to cater towards individuals instead of it’s current one size fits all. We also need to improve the standardized tests so that they will help students improve, as well as to set standardized tests so that they would be in real world situations. After most standardized tests, most students get a score that mark their overall improvement
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I believe that standardized tests are not beneficial to students, teachers, or schools and should not have continued use in school districts throughout the country. Standardized tests cause teachers to have a certain curriculum which focuses mainly on materials on the test and takes away from other subjects. The tests also create unnecessary stress for both the students and the teachers and there is so much relying on the one test. In addition, test taking wastes class time that could be used for
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