generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized test”. Consequently, many believe that Standardized testing doesn't measure the big picture such as a problem solving, critical thinking and perseverance. Additionally, many feel that standardized testing brings test anxiety, and puts great pressure on schools to perform at unattainable levels. On the contrary, some believe that standardized testing holds
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As a high school graduate, I’ve had my fair share of standardized tests. However, I also have younger siblings in both elementary and middle schools. As they’ve gotten older, I’ve taken notice in the increase of state testing they have to go through. They’re tested far more than I ever was as a kid. In her NPR article titled “What Schools Could Use Instead Of Standardized Tests”, Anya Kamenetz, an author, discusses the overuse of standardized testing and possible alternatives for them. Kamenetz mentions
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March, 2016 Standardized Tests in a Better World It is March 31st and it is also STAAR day. Everyone has their study guides out, and there is free breakfast in the cafeteria. Your heart is pumping so hard you can feel it pulsing throughout your body. Students complain to their parents about having way too much studying to do. Parents across America have been complaining about their kids taking standardized tests. Teachers have been complaining about how standardized tests judge their teaching skills
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and "fiscally irresponsible" way to deal with drug abuse. Instead of drug tests, which cost an average of $42 each not including the costs of running the program, the money would be better spent on training government workers to screen and refer, and to expanding the treatment system (Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly). ( Bowler 2012). There are multiple methods of testing for drugs, they are: urine tests, blood tests and mouth swabbing. The blood testing is the most costly although effective
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Lacs i) Applied Mechanic ii) Environment Lab. iii) Survey Lab. 1 Civil Engineering iv) Hydraulic or Fluid Mechanics Lab v) Material Testing Lab. 140.00 90.00 75.00 120.00 120.00 1) Compression Testing Machine 2) Tri axial Shear Test Apparatus 3) Direct Shear Test Apparatus 4) Electronic distance meter N1- 450 5) One second theodolite 6) Digital Planimeter 7) Auto level 8) PH Meter 8) Vicat Apparatus. 10) Le-Chatelier Apparatus. 11) Aggregate Impact Testing Machine. 12) Compaction Factor Apparatus
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be a government funded crutch for substance abusers. Often tax payers complain about tax monies being spent to support the habits of drug users who receive welfare. The fix to this problem is simple, drug testing. Drug test everyone on welfare and when the welfare recipient tests positive, take away the benefit. Problem solved. But is it? The consideration of testing welfare recipients for drug use has been debated since welfare reform in 1996. Subsequently, “at least eight states have passed legislation
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My suggestion is to drug test those receiving unemployment benefits. I believe even the threat of this will stop some people from abusing the system. This will help the people who are honest and trying to be able to get by while they are searching for a job. Many states have tried to pass a law requiring drug tests for those receiving unemployment benefits. They have suggested that the testing be taken out of the benefits the person is receiving. If they fail the drug test, then they lose the benefits
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driving test was the day I would find out if all the effort and time I had put into driving was worth it or not. The day before my driving test was one of the worst and darkest days of my life because I was extremely nervous and worried about the judgment day, which was the next day. My brothers and sisters teased me about failing the road test. We went through all the instructions and all other details that there was to know. I usually sleep late, but on the day before my driving test I slept unusually
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require a drug test as part of a pre-employment screening policy. Of the companies that do this, it’s usually the only test they will take. The pre-employment drug test seems to be the easiest for companies to use, while the employees don’t have to worry about it again. Most companies that have a drug testing policy will use random drug tests. Although they have these drug testing policies, only a small number actually give the tests. Out of the companies that conduct random drug tests, their frequency
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An increasing high school dropout rate is due to the fact that our education system is a grade-based system, that uses standardized tests to measure ones intelligence and achievements. Students who don’t measure up as well as others in terms of their grades, begin to quit at an earlier stage in education, with the belief they aren’t good enough to succeed in further education. With education inflation, the grade standards and pressure for students, are at a constant rise, which makes it more difficult
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