their salary increases by up to 10 percent. Education as a whole is the wisest, most profitable investment a society can make. Recently however, a plague has infected schools and spread throughout our educational system like a cancer: standardized testing. Standardized tests have become a staple of the American education system but is it truly the best way to measure our students? As a child I loved learning. I loved learning how gravity dictates how the Earth revolves around the Sun or how you could
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Students for Standardized Tests: Strategies for Success Maria Fenwick is a fourth grade teacher. During her lessons, she incorporate different techniques that the students should us during testing. She collects data on how well her students are understanding the test requirements. From previous years of testing with her students she sees a trend with open response questions. In this scenario, Ms. Fenwick has the student answer an open response question. She turns her classroom into a testing center during
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Standardized Testing- How Beneficial is it? Student Name Toulmin Model Position Paper English Comp II – 112 Phaire Due Date – mm/dd/yy Word Count – nnn Outline Position Statement: Is ‘No Child Left Behind’ a valid method of assessing school, teacher and student performance? No, I do not think this act is a valid method to assess school, teacher and student performance. Rhetorical Context: This issue will address all the problems
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Pros and Cons of Standardized Tests Name of Author Institutional Affiliation Pros and Cons of Standardized Tests Regarded as one of the most dependable evaluation techniques, standardized tests have been in existence for decades. They continue to perform essential scholarly function in assessment and appraisal. Majorly, they test acquisition and retention of knowledge, and the way students can implement such knowledge in solving problems. Because they have been widely adopted by most
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students take practice tests, learn about the proper amount of sleep, and breakfast one needs prior to taking the annual standardized achievement test. Once again it is time to test what children have learned this school year, so that state and federal government can decide if children, teachers, and schools measure up to government standards. While achievement and standardized test are meant to improve the quality of education by measuring the performance of students, teachers, and schools; they
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Team B Methods Paper The goal of standardized testing is to evaluate student ability with a uniform, non-biased instrument. They have “been shown to predict students’ future educational attainment and adult employment and income” (Trafton, 2013, para. 2). First used in Imperial 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
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Assessment in No Child Left Behind The Controversy over Standardized Testing and it’s Effects on Young Children Cynthia M. Kirchner Western Governors University Sherry Lawler HJT1 Task 1 #54425 Nature of the Controversy: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Accountability and Standardized/High-Stakes Testing No Child Left Behind (NCLB): is the newest iteration of a decades-old education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The original law provided funding to school districts to
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Standardized Testing; Worth it or Not? “When teachers talk about high school ‘standardized tests’ these days, they're not talking about the SAT. They mean federally mandated, timed, 'one set of multiple choice questions fits all' tests designed to measure students' performance in basic subjects like math and reading. Each state decides how to define educational proficiency, and tests use a minimum of three scores: Below Basic, Proficient, and Advanced” (Kumeh). These tests are put together not
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effect does standardized testing have on student performance? Since the 1800’s standardized testing has been a part of the American education system, and today it’s a way of life for students. Studies have been performed to determine the effects of standardized testing on students, as well as teachers, yielding both positive and negative effects. Regardless of the effects, one thing is certain, standardized testing has been awhile for years and is not going anywhere. Cons on testing are pretty
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Standardized Testing: Good or Bad? Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge. We all crave knowledge, we all learn new things every day, and we all make decisions based on our knowledge. It comes to no surprise that a major part of our lives is education, from pre-k to graduate school. Being successful in our education consists of hard work, a little luck, and now, more importantly than ever, being able to pass exams. Tests are one of the only ways to see how well
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