High Stake Testing

1) High Stake Testing are test with important consequences for the test taker. Important benefits, high school diploma, scholarship, license to practice profession. Failing is a disadvantage being forced to take the remedial classes until it's passed. Not being allowed to drive or being able for employment. The misuse or high stake test is a controversial topic in public education in the United States where they become popular in recent years, not only to students but it attempts to increase teacher accountability. High stake testing is not synonymous with high pressure testing. High school student might feel pressure to perform well on SAT-I college exams. SAT scores do not determine admission to any college or university there's no clear
line between those who pass or fails. So it's not considered a high stake test. There also given significant weight in the admissions at some schools people believe that it has consequences for doing well or poorly, a high stake test is under the simpler common definition. High stakes are not characteristic of the test, but the consequences are placed on the outcome.
2) The intended audience for this presentation would be a school district, school board and teachers.
Many states and school district put their whole focus on passing these standardized test that make their district look better rather than broadening their horizon and teaching students from a bigger template. In some cases, these tests evaluate whether a student can advance to the next grade or not. What higher school officials need to understand is that the student is not gaining educational value through 1 test, rather than learning individualized math and history and gaining a broader view of knowledge.
3) The significance of High Stakes Testing putting the pressure and all of the importance on a single test. A student can have straight A’s in high school all 4 years passing every class and having a clear understanding of the subject matter but failing the SAT and not getting into a College or University in consequence of the
test.

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I. Effects Of High Stakes Testing
A. Test with important consequences
1) Standardized tests are a key factor in deciding who and what schools / districts will be set on probation. For example, Manzo (1996) reported that teacher raises and cash awards to schools are all based on student test scores, attendance, and graduation rates. For schools with abundantly low-performing students, schools could be forced to replace up to 75%of their staffs.
B. Allow Teachers To Teach
1. High stakes testing will slim down the curriculum, get to the core on lower-order skills, and remove control of the curriculum away from local sources.
C. Benefits
1. The benefit of standardized testing is being able to see where your students are at and how much they have grasped of the information you have given them. It can be looked at as a measuring point of the subject but not giving you a clear understanding of the developmental structure of learning.
II. Support
A.
• Having one test determine your fate in a class put’s both the student and teacher in a vonerable position.
• The student has to focus on what the test is going to be on rather than the entire volume of the ciricucllum.
• A single test cannot measure what and how the student has developed in the classroom.
B.
• A teacher isn’t allowed to broaden his or her’s horizon when standardized test are in effect.
He or she must pin point what is needed for the student to pass the test and make the local school officials feel accomplished.
• When a teacher develops a syllabus, they inform they will take the students from point A to point Z throughout the time given in the year. Developing the students’ knowledge step by step allowing the student to take in information week after week.
• The teacher slims down what they sought after teaching to purely focus on what will be assigned on the standardized test.
C.
• Incentives for teachers who meet the challenges
• Incentives for students who meet the requirements
• A measuring stick to see where the students are at that time
III. Conclusion
A. Concluding high stakes testing, it’s a program that doesn’t allow a clear understanding of how much or what a person knows about a specific subject. 1 test of knowledge does not come close to knowledge over a certain subject over time and through a process of evaluation rather than a process of a single component. A scientist does not make a claim after 1 test, they test their theory over and over to finalize a conclusion and come to an answer as our education system needs to go
to.