Speech Out Line - Against Standardize Testing
Laurel Sira
Formal Sentence Outline
COMS 1030
Title of Speech: Standardized testing
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: School and universities will no longer use standardized testing.
Proposition: All schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success.
Introduction
I. Attention Getter
Albert Einstein, Charles Dickens, John Rockefeller, and Bill Gates…what do all these people have in common? They were “bad in school”. According to our current way of ranking and comparing students they were among the bottom few, along with many other famous, successful, intellectuals.
II. Audience Relevance Link
I’m sure everybody in this room has taken a standardized test; you have to have to even to get into college. And I’m sure some of you did really well, maybe even got a scholarship for it, but I also bet that some of you didn’t do so hot, and I’m here to challenge the notion that’s says that that makes you less smart than the other students.
III. Credibility
This is a battle that I fight on a daily basis. I’m dyslexic, always have been always will be, and while this means that I often have to take a different approach to things, but it has never hindered my ability to succeed, except for in one area; standardized testing.
Like the name implies its for the “standard” population, the “standard” student, which I am not, and who is. How does one even begin to define standard. How can we make a test, one single standardized test, the equally compare every unique individual, that’s impossible.
IV. Proposition
It for that reason that all schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success.
V. Preview
These test are extremely inadequate for several reason. One, they attempt to determine ones intellectual ability through one test on one particular day without any consideration to external factors. Two, they are
Formal Sentence Outline
COMS 1030
Title of Speech: Standardized testing
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: School and universities will no longer use standardized testing.
Proposition: All schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success.
Introduction
I. Attention Getter
Albert Einstein, Charles Dickens, John Rockefeller, and Bill Gates…what do all these people have in common? They were “bad in school”. According to our current way of ranking and comparing students they were among the bottom few, along with many other famous, successful, intellectuals.
II. Audience Relevance Link
I’m sure everybody in this room has taken a standardized test; you have to have to even to get into college. And I’m sure some of you did really well, maybe even got a scholarship for it, but I also bet that some of you didn’t do so hot, and I’m here to challenge the notion that’s says that that makes you less smart than the other students.
III. Credibility
This is a battle that I fight on a daily basis. I’m dyslexic, always have been always will be, and while this means that I often have to take a different approach to things, but it has never hindered my ability to succeed, except for in one area; standardized testing.
Like the name implies its for the “standard” population, the “standard” student, which I am not, and who is. How does one even begin to define standard. How can we make a test, one single standardized test, the equally compare every unique individual, that’s impossible.
IV. Proposition
It for that reason that all schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success.
V. Preview
These test are extremely inadequate for several reason. One, they attempt to determine ones intellectual ability through one test on one particular day without any consideration to external factors. Two, they are
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