In schools all over the United States, students prepare for standardized tests that can potentially determine which university they attend. Standardized tests are designed to evaluate students on specific skills and knowledge they should have acquired throughout their educational career. Schools are beginning to focus all their attention on making sure students get their desired scores on these standardized tests, that they have stopped teaching them to actually learn and comprehend the information
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English 11 October 24, 2015 Mrs. Robach Standardized Tests Standardized tests are used to determine someone’s entire future. They are used all around the United States to determine teacher and administrator pay, label schools as passing or failing, and most importantly, as college admissions tests, like the SAT and ACT. Are these tests really accurate? Many people say yes while others strongly disagree. Standardized tests are not a fair way to test students and should not be used to determine what
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Schools that “sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds”. Each child’s brain works differently and each child is capable of different things on different levels. Some minds are more creative than others while some are logical. Standardized tests can open opportunities for some but end opportunities for others. Standardized tests give an equal opportunity for everyone to show their intelligence but they do not accurately
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China for determining suitable employees for the government of the ruling class (Do standardized tests show an accurate view of students’ abilities, 2012), the standardized test as we know it now is a result of an open letter to the public by the U.S. Department of Education entitled, “A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform”, that was released in 1983 (Jolley, 2014). The SAT, an aptitude test typically taken by high school juniors and seniors, was started in 1926 and has been modified
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have to take standardized tests. Standardized tests are extremely stressful, they cost a whole lot of money, and they take up way too much time. First of all, standardized testing takes up way too much time. Before taking the lengthy assessments, the students have to prepare for the testing material many weeks before testing even starts. There is plenty of time in a school day for students to work, but some students’ tests are prolonged due to their desire for exemplary test scores. Some people may
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standardized testing. Ravitch is opposed to the use of standardized tests and believes they have a negative effect on schools. Part 1: The one-sentence summary Ravitch (2011), U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary of Education, criticizes the Obama administration for following Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy, explaining that the government places an overreliance on standardized test scores and teaching to the test over rich curriculum and true reform for underachieving schools.
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Process 5/2/14 Standardized Testing These days, if a school's standardized test scores are high, people think the school's staff is effective. If a school's standardized test scores are low, they see the school's staff as ineffective. In either case, because educational quality is being measured by the wrong scale, those evaluations are apt to be in error. One of the main reasons that students' standardized test scores continue to be the most important factor in evaluating a school is deceptively
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For • Practicality-This is probably by far, the biggest argument in favor of standardized tests. Aspects include: o Standardized tests are less time-consuming than more complicated assessments that need personal time with every student. o Standardized tests are easier to administer. There are explicit directions given and each student is given the same directions in the same way. o They are easier to grade, machines do it for us. o Very easy to use a computer to track progress and levels
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Office, 2002). Since the creation of this act, various debates challenge the practical use of the standardized tests. The debate presented for this paper is an argument, “Should public schools continue standardized testing?” The favorable arguments are that the standardized tests are fair, backed by parents, improves the quality of the curriculum, and the usage of standardized tests outside of the public education system. The arguments against standardized testing are stereotyping poor performing
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reading and math test by the year 2014 (Standardized Tests). Since this act has been passed by Congress there has been a wide debate over the requirements and standardized test. The No Child Left Behind Act is not an effective educational policy because the teaching focus is on standardized testing, there is a negative impact on students, and penalizing on schools and teachers for not
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