ARE FINAL EXAM NECESSARY I have news for many of you who have yet to live and work in the real world: rarely in your life will success at any endeavor come down to one event. The real world is getting up every day, going to work at whatever it is you do, making mistakes and learning from them while trying to get better with experience. Although most of you have been conditioned through supposed “make or break you” tests like the SAT and ACT to believe that the culmination of your learning can
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MAPS, Aspire, ACT, SAT, PSAT, AP Exams, Iowa Assessments: standardized testing that is required in schools throughout the country to show a student’s intellectual ability or college readiness. There is not a shortage of standardized tests, yet schools keep adding these tests into their curriculum. Standardized testing can be helpful; it can show a student’s improvement in school and help teachers figure out what they need to teach more thoroughly. But, in general, standardized tests are not ideal:
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Standardized Testing and Its Effects: An Annotated Bibliography The first standardized test was administered by Horace Mann in the nineteenth century as as a result of the concern with the educational reform in America (Gallagher, 2003). Although the students’ results were disappointing, this lead to the movement of using standardized tests throughout curriculum. In spite of the controversy, the popularity of this form of testing has increased greatly over time. The debate on standardized tests
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FS 5: FORM 1 for FS 5 (For Field Study Student and Mentor) Documenting and Assessing Student Progress 1. List the procedures you follow to correct different types of student work (e.g., daily papers, homework, tests, projects, etc.) Hands- on exercises everyday with proper monitoring of every student or every group of the class. Visual presentation of the said procedure. Showing of possible mistakes that students commit
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Incorporating Changes to the Current Standardized Testing Program Rowan University February 9, 2016 Standardized testing has become a subject of debate in the U.S education system. The New Jersey Department of Education replaced its previous common core testing, NJASK and HSPA, in 2014, with a single new standardized test, PARCC, for all grades from 3-12 as the single statewide assessments tool (“PARCC Assessment,” 2016). Many, if not, all states have their
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The first standardized tests appeared in America during World War I as a means of placing U.S. Army recruits into military roles that suited their skills. Later the psychologists that created those tests created the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT. The objective was to create a full-length test to judge the overall intelligence of a student applying to college. The ACT was later created in 1959 with a similar goal. The two tests today contain sections for reading, writing, math, and in the ACT,
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Standardized tests are intended to measure a student’s intellectual capacity, yet do they truly do so? Do they accurately measure a student’s intelligence, or do they only show a person’s memory capacity? Standardized tests are an epidemic, overtaking the school curriculum, putting an indescribable pressure on the students to meet the expectations set by these tests. Standardized tests corrupt and destroy education, in the way that they target three subjects, deeming the others as ‘unimportant’ and
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A large part of the American public school system relies on testing in order to test students’ knowledge and learning, but how accurate are these tests in measuring learning and are these test beneficial to learning? These standardized tests may actually do more harm, than good to students’ education. The first problem with standardized testing is that they only measure whether a student can perform well on a test on one specific day. “High-stakes tests are unfair to many students. Some students
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I happen to be good at math. I get math concept easily and really excel in the subject. I know that not everyone is a “math person”. My brother for instance is not. He struggles at concepts that come naturally to me. I also believe not everyone can teach math. I have had some really awful math teachers in my day. I felt sorry for the students in those classes that weren’t “math people”. If I found the class boring and confusing I can only imagine how lost and turned off they were. I agree with
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The long history of standardized testing began in the 7th Century Imperial China where the test was administered to people seeking jobs in the government (Mathews). The tested used by the Chinese tested the applicants' knowledge of Confucian philosophy and were used up until 1898 (Crozier). For the Western world, the Industrial Revolution brought about the movement to bring school aged kids working in factories and on farms to the classroom. Standardized testing allowed the newly expanded student
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