I would have to agree with this, because in today’s school systems students are mostly directed to learn by memorizing and taking multiple-choice tests, and not actually applying different types of skills to further their intelligence. However, with the implement of street-smarts into the academic scene, this would allow street-smart students to be able to apply skills they learn from the outside
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become the nations most widely used admissions tests among colleges and universities. These tests display a student's ability to use Mathematical reasoning, Analytical reading, and Writing skills. The scholastic aptitude test was first introduced to high school students in 1926 By Carl C. Brigham, As a scholarship test for ivy league schools. It was experimentally administered to over 8,000 students at over 300 test centers, Then becoming standardized in the 1940s. It was intended for academically
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minutes left with fifteen questions remaining. The heart rate increases by twenty beats per minute. “A, C, B, B, B, B, B---” five of the same answer choices in a row, and the heart rate increases by ten more beats per minute. Realization that this test score could cause numerous desirable colleges to decide denial of an application occurs, which causes the heart to race as if the body is running twenty miles per an hour on a treadmill. Having to resort to filling the remaining answer choices with
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Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 2 September 2013 The Legal Implications of Gender Bias in Standardized Testing Katherine Connor Ellen J. Vargyas Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bglj Recommended Citation Katherine Connor and Ellen J. Vargyas, The Legal Implications of Gender Bias in Standardized Testing, 7 Berkeley Women's L.J. 13 (1992). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bglj/vol7/iss1/2 Link to publisher
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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 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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The Cons of Standardized Testing In past decades, tests were given to students to decide their placement in classes or to determine which students needed to be placed in resources class. Today, standardized tests are used for arbitrating the success or failure of students, teachers, and schools. “Despite their biases, inaccuracies, limited ability to measure achievement or ability, and other flaws, schools use standardized tests to determine if children are ready for school, track them into instructional
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Many colleges look at standardized testing for determination of acceptance, but should it be a major factor in determining the grant or deny of college entry? Colleges should abolish standardized testing for determination of acceptance because there are other factors to look at, some people have test anxiety, and it could have an interference in future goals for college. Standardized testing is not the best thing to look at for acceptance and it causes many stressful situations for students to go
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determine someone’s chances of getting into college…or not. It is a basis for measuring a student’s performance academically and also their general knowledge and logic. It is a standardized curriculum that every student takes, un-biased or composed by different teachers. It is the SAT or in other words, the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Full of multiple choice and open ended questions, students complete the exam anywhere between 5 to 8 hours and their scores are submitted during their college application
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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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