Standardized Testing Proposal Essay
Purpose
The purpose of my proposal is should the results of standardized tests be used determine whether or not you get into a certain college, or MCA to graduate high school, or GRE to get into a graduate program of your choice? No. I think that there should be an alternate option for students who are not good test takers.
Summary
Standardized testing can now be considered as essential aspect of the public school system. There is a lot of money and time making sure that standardized test work efficiently as possible. A lot of people will agree that we do need standardized testing because, it gets a measure of what students are achieving and making sure they are getting a good education. This isn’t true. The only thing that standardized test …show more content…
But in order to do well on testing teachers in the public school systems are focusing more on what students should expect and preparing them. A lot of time is now focused on standardized testing. I remember when I was in high school we spent a good amount of time working on MCA practice worksheets to prepare us to do well, and we could be working on learning something new rather then putting all our focus on just one standardized test.
We propose to find alternative ways for testing and seeing where a student stands in the curriculum rather then using standardized testing. To perform this we would have demo trails between the alternatives ways to see what would best fit student’s performance levels. We would study the difference between how students would do during standardized testing and the alternative and how well they perform.
If this proposal is authorized, I would like to begin my studies as soon as possible. I would be submitting my progress report on March 29th, 2017 to Mr. Aarts and my recommendation report on April 12th 2017. The recommendation report will include details of my research and recommendations regarding how to proceed with the
The purpose of my proposal is should the results of standardized tests be used determine whether or not you get into a certain college, or MCA to graduate high school, or GRE to get into a graduate program of your choice? No. I think that there should be an alternate option for students who are not good test takers.
Summary
Standardized testing can now be considered as essential aspect of the public school system. There is a lot of money and time making sure that standardized test work efficiently as possible. A lot of people will agree that we do need standardized testing because, it gets a measure of what students are achieving and making sure they are getting a good education. This isn’t true. The only thing that standardized test …show more content…
But in order to do well on testing teachers in the public school systems are focusing more on what students should expect and preparing them. A lot of time is now focused on standardized testing. I remember when I was in high school we spent a good amount of time working on MCA practice worksheets to prepare us to do well, and we could be working on learning something new rather then putting all our focus on just one standardized test.
We propose to find alternative ways for testing and seeing where a student stands in the curriculum rather then using standardized testing. To perform this we would have demo trails between the alternatives ways to see what would best fit student’s performance levels. We would study the difference between how students would do during standardized testing and the alternative and how well they perform.
If this proposal is authorized, I would like to begin my studies as soon as possible. I would be submitting my progress report on March 29th, 2017 to Mr. Aarts and my recommendation report on April 12th 2017. The recommendation report will include details of my research and recommendations regarding how to proceed with the