In an article entitled, Pair Scanning: Integrating the Student Sonographer Without Impacting Patient Care, Docherty, Foran, Burnett-Roy, and May, observe how ultrasound departments integrate students who are training into their schedule in order to see if it has an effect on their patient load. There is a struggle at times in the healthcare professional workplace for the doctors and employees to allow student sonographers to come and education programs to find clinical sites for their students.
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of the lack of standardized tests in schools. When standardized tests are in placed in a school district, they greatly warp the school’s academic curriculum. For example: the teachers must teach material that will appear on the standardized tests. For if they don’t, the students will perform poorly on the tests; thus, reflecting poorly on the teachers, which reflects poorly on the school district as a whole. In addition, any school district which uses standardized tests (I’ll call them “standardized
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A Failing Grade for the Notion of More Testing Christopher de Vinck has worked in the education field for over forty years, and through his vast experience he has shown that there are many different ways to test a student that will get the same results that a standardized test should be able to achieve (Vinck 2015). With Vinck’s professional background of fifty years, his ethos, clearly shows that he is able to show the audience of teachers and educational politicians that his opinion on standardized
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I do not think the culture-fair test is fair. Since a lot of the intelligence tests were designed by white males. It is as if they were creating the tests for themselves so they would look superior to everyone else in other cultures. Everyone thinks differently from one another because we each have a different mind set. Each individual learns a different way and not at the same pace. So why make us take these intelligence tests when they are far from fair to each individual? I do not see the point
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Standardized Tests? You only have one day, it is now or never. Then again, there is way too much of what teachers and students call, “tests.”Students should not take standardized tests. One because it takes up too much time, another is because we could be learning so much more in the time given, finally because they can stress students. Approximately 1.6 percent of class time is spent standardized testing. Students should actually have the opportunity to learn something instead of doing the same
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the researcher analyzed the effects of socioeconomic status on the academic performance by retrieving data on the state mandated Missouri Assessment Program. The researcher analyzed fifty school districts on the communication arts portion of the MAP test. This data was used in determining the academic performance of these students. The percent of free and reduced lunch students in these districts was used in determining their socioeconomic status. The correlation between the two variables was determined
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Abolishing Standardized Tests Standardized tests should be abolished from schools. Standardized tests, like SOLs, are hurting students more so than they are helping them. These tests put a lot of stress on teachers and students. Test scores are used to show school improvement and how well the school is academically. Schools try to raise their test scores to make the school look better. In order to raise the scores teachers are being forced to teach to test. Teachers are only teaching students what
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How to pass Aptitude Tests Submitted by www.jobswag.com In recent times statistics show that at least one in every three fresh graduates working in a major corporation had to undergo series of aptitude tests. With the increasing rate of unemployment, employers are constantly overwhelmed by the number of applications received for every job opening. Hence, job aptitude tests fill the role of downsizing the population of applicants by providing a fair playing ground of elimination. Prior
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responsible for annually increasing the average scores has shifted the curricula to teaching to the test, in addition to, putting the well being of both teachers and students at risk. Although standardized testing in the U.S. has been in place for over a century, its initial use is associated back to ancient China where the public was selected for jobs through testing. The purpose for standardized tests has always been to measure the knowledge and ability that one acquires. According to Osman Ozturgut
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The Purposes and Methods of Classroom-Based Literacy Assessment Grand Canyon University: RDG 512 June 3, 2014 Assessing Literacy Development The purpose of the information provided is to adequately use literacy assessments and understand their purpose as well as how they benefit students and help guide teachers’ instruction. I. Classroom Assessment A. Planning for Assessment Considerations for each student include: 1. Background knowledge (What do students know about this
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