Regina Slaughter U05a1 Brief Writing/Explaining English1000 Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students? By: Eric Boese It is true that technology and educational resources have dramatically improved over the years. In the article “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students?” Eric Boese believed that standardized test use for students in the school systems are being used for the wrong reasons. Boese argues that the students are not being taught the knowledge and skills
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Mandatory Drug Testing Legislation The subject of our debate is whether or not public assistance recipients should be required to pass a mandatory drug test as a qualifying standard. There are currently twenty seven states considering some type of legislation this year that would require anybody wishing to receive public assistance to pass a drug test in order to do so. While on the surface this type of policy seems to make sense in order to regulate where a state uses its funds, there are many who
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PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTING ACHIEVEMENT TESTS BY DR UCHENNA UDEANI DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS AKOKA, YABA, LAGOS. PAPER PRESENTED AT THE TRAINING PROGRAMME ON IMPROVING THE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION SKILLS OF SCHOOL TEACHERS 11TH -15TH APRIL 2011 1.0 INTRODUCTION The amount of effort involved in constructing an educational test varies with the type of test and the purpose for which it is intended. Most classroom teachers probably
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standardized testing, with minimal differences among racial and socioeconomic groups. - Also, the system has effectively identified students with abilities at an earlier age. - The number of African-American students who passed at least one AP test at Montgomery has
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In the American education system, standardized testing is something that both teachers and students can’t escape from. State mandated test can create many problems within the education system, and result in the failure of students. For Example, “Rather than conceptualizing and retaining knowledge for the long term, students remember what they have to and forget when they no longer need it. It shows a single way of teaching and stifles creativity in the school system” (Armstrong). This shows that
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Results of Standardized Tests The main purposes of standardized tests are to maintain an equal education level across the country and have that level increase to better compete against other nations across the globe. In order to compete with global averages, it was believed that standardized tests were the most effective way in increasing the United States average. Therefore, a country heavily adopted in testing students with these standardized tests should have a steady increase in educational
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been injured on the job to have to submit themselves to a drug test prior to any workmen’s compensation payment. It’s important for employment organizations to consider the negative effects of not instilling random drug tests in their bi-laws and instead look at the positive outcomes that it will bring. Even if it takes an organization three years to replace the money that it spends on testing, its livelihood depends on
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Are standardized tests really necessary? In my opinion the state should discontinue standardized tests because all it is doing is teaching students to pass the test rather than learning ways to apply the material in real world situations, and not everything on the test will be of use to the students. Most of the times, the teachers teach their students the curriculum of the tests, instead of teaching material that can be used in the real world. One example, could be those formulas and equations
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the current educational system, students are being measured based on assessment ratings and scores. One popular assessment technique would be considered a “Norm- Referenced Test.” Norm-referenced test (NRT) are designed to compare test takers, and their scores, in relation to other test takers (Hidden Curriculum). These tests can be very influential when establishing average student performance rates, but have some negative downfalls when the exams are consistently used with low validity. In addition
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