Higher education is increasing as the years increase and the importance of grade standardization has increased. The emphasis on GPA, SAT, ACT and other standardized test have been placed on high scale of a students’ future success. Is this nonsense? Some professors feel that these standardizations are the best alternatives as it sets an equal scale for everyone of all ethnicities, genders, and races. Others argue that each individual cannot be grouped in the same category because of their differences
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level than ever before. Despite all these new standards and new high stakes testing students in America continue to show gaps in achievement. The fact is that some students simply do not test well. Many students are affected by test anxiety or do not show their learning well on a standardized test, resulting in inaccurately lower scores. Many students do
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However, a different type of test is becoming prominent in school systems. Standardized testing, examinations administered and scored in a standard manner (7), are taking over the school systems. Standardized tests administered to students are either aptitude tests or achievement tests. Aptitude tests predict student’s performance, like the common ACT and SAT that colleges frequently use; achievement tests evaluate teacher and school effectiveness (7). Although standardized tests are becoming significant
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standardized test we take from Pre K to 12th grade? From grades Pre K to 12th grade an average student takes about 112 exams. Every year students take about 8-9 standardized test. For example Knox Middle School takes Istep and Nwea three times a year to see what the students are learning and what the teachers are teaching. The government needs to modify these numbers of standardized test because it is quality not quantity. This essay will discuss that the government should modify standardized test because
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Imagine this, after hard work, sweat and tears of trying to make the school sports team you finally get a call back stating that you have a spot on the team. Your heart is pumping and you can’t stop imagining how much enjoyment you will have on the field, representing your school. You bring your equipment to school, waiting all day to prove yourself at the first practice to get that starting spot, but instead, you get lectured about the standards you must achieve to maintain a spot on the team. Suddenly
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explaining what these solutions are and what they involve. She stated that sampling was, “a simple approach. The same tests, just fewer of 'em. Accountability could be achieved at the district level by administering traditional standardized tests to a statistically representative sampling of students, rather than to every student every year.” Stealth assessments are invisible tests put into place by textbook companies that also provide math and English software with questionnaires that students complete
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Standardized tests is a measurement of a student’s educational ability. It is used to determine the current averages and recognize high and low performers. The test informs teachers on how a student performed on the test and what treatment they need to improve or to be more challenged. Standardized testing is stressful and takes too much time for students. So much time and preparation is put into doing this one test. This time could be put into learning what we need in the standards and for what
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The educational system is one of the primary factor that differentiates which path should female and male students go. It is also one of the many reasons why girls are discouraged to study math and science. Moreover, it is a place that injects false interpretations of how boys are supposed to be in power. In the readings, the writers exposed the differences of female and male students are being treated in the classroom, in outdoor activities and professional studies to show how social factors affect
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It is possible to determine the identity of an unknown element and ion though a flame test and emission spectra. I think unknown 1 is a sodium ion or Na+ because they both produced a bright orange color and looks the closest. I think unknown 2 is strontium ion or Sr2+ because they produced a dark red flame. The unknown for the emission spectra I think was mercury because looking at the real spectra sheet of elements, mercury was the closest in terms of matching the lines of the light spectra. These
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’ve always thought about attending a school where students don’t have to take tests mandated by the government. I just realized that it is possible. In the article “What Schools Could Use Instead of Standardized Test”, by Anya Kamenetz, it recommends that it might come true in future years. As of right now, attorneys and legislators have been trying to draft a bill that could get rid of the desire for a federal bubble test and dismiss the renewal of the rule that states no child left behind, but switching
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