climb a tree it will spend it's whole life thinking it is stupid,” by Albert Einstein. Should students take standardized test? Students should not because it takes too much time, it puts stress on them, and we can take them but not that many. First of all, students take too much time on test. According to Newsela, students spend 22-25 hours, and use 2.3 percent of classroom time on testing. But, some would say that it might take up time but it’s showing how well we’re learning. Secondly, it puts
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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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Annotated Bibliography for Standardized Testing Perry Barr Devry University Annotated Bibliography for Standardized Testing : I was always told that one bad apple will spoil the whole bunch; which is true. Standardized Testing should be used to find the child with a learning disability and work with that child. Not to grade the whole school and that school gets a poor grade. That’s like taking a bunch of apples and throwing them out just because a couple of them were spoiled. A person needs
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first standardized test last year. Gianna is a marvelous student and does well in school; however, when it came to the test she did not do well. The whole time she was stressed out, and had no idea what she was doing because she could not focus. Her teacher spent so much class time trying to teach the class about the test that she did not get to learn much about the other subjects. For example, Gianna loves social studies, but her teacher mostly focused on math and language arts. Standardized tests
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Are standardized tests really necessary? In my opinion the state should discontinue standardized tests because all it is doing is teaching students to pass the test rather than learning ways to apply the material in real world situations, and not everything on the test will be of use to the students. Most of the times, the teachers teach their students the curriculum of the tests, instead of teaching material that can be used in the real world. One example, could be those formulas and equations
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In many cases, the debates that surround the concept of standardized testing are as complex as they are numerous. On a national scope, the idea of keeping curriculum consistent from school to school, state to state, and region to region is an amiable one. However, it is much easier said than done. When it comes to the aspect of student development both cognitively and psychologically, things far more important than uniformity are at stake. Summative exams like the aforementioned shrink a holistic
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doing nothing but answering the most confusing questions ever. Students should not 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’
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Public 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
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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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School Boards and parents rely on standardized test scores to rate a schools and teachers effectiveness. Today the most common example of standardized testing are the SAT and the ACT both attempt to tell how proficient a student will do in college. On a national level these five tests are in use: California Achievement Tests, Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Metropolitan Achievement Tests, and Stanford Achievement Tests. What they are trying to do is to create assessment
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