Meijer’s mission statement was adopted at the very start of their business, which is to “…take care of your customers, team members, and community… and all of those will take care of you, just like a family.” This is basically saying to treat others with respect and care and they will do the same for you. We wouldn’t change much from this, but it should include more about providing the customers with quality products to meet their wants and needs.…
Teachers and schools should be held accountable, but not judged by some test that is a blanket test. This act takes away the ability of teachers to actually be able to teach, they just instruct to what is on the test. Students learn at different levels; this test hurts those students that may not learn quick as the others or learn in the same way. The NCLB is an even bigger problem in areas such as Chicago, Atlanta schools with children that come from poorer families and do not get the help they need at home.…
Do you hate staring at a computer/ piece of paper for more than two hours and answering questions? I am sure most people would answer “no”, and that is why standardized testing puts more harm than good in today’s world. Standardized testing causes a lot more problems than usual. It used to be a part of life, but now it’s causing kids not to go to college, and it’s causing kids to have a level of stress that shouldn’t even be allowed. People all over are stating that they give a false overview of who the student actually is, and in the end, these tests won’t get you anywhere in life. It’s important to many people including students who are taking the tests, teachers who are preparing the students for these tests, and of course the parents who have to deal with all the complaints from their child about these tests. This is a pretty important issue today, because so much is riding on these tests. If you do poorly you won’t get accepted to the university you want, or your teacher could get fired because of your performance. Although some people think standardized testing is just a part of life and it teaches students that it’s not okay to fail, these tests give a false interpretation of who the student actually is. One score does not tell you if that person is an outstanding individual or not. These scores might help you get into a better university, but when it comes to a career later on down the road, employers don’t look at what you got on your SAT, they look to see if you are best fit for the job, and whether you are a hard worker and would bring the company many positives, and I think colleges should focus on that same idea.…
Before the NCLB Act was passed, education was extremely different. Teachers did distribute tests in math and reading, the main subjects of the No Child Left Behind Act, but, it was not consecutively every year. The tests that were given merely made it a competition among students and did not have a set standard comparative. That created tension in the classroom and immense pressure on the students to do well on the test. One…
These test only show the students’ performance the day of the test and not the overall growth of the student over the year. The standardized test does a disservice to both the teacher who worked hard to help their students grow and the student who worked extremely hard over the course of the year and improved tremendously, but failed to pass the test. Many people would argue that teacher and student performance should be evaluated on growth over the year instead of one single test. Many of these students are smart and understand the content, but it does not show on the test. Also many students develop test anxiety which causes stress on the students which leads to negativity directed at school and learning in general. In a picture the teacher says “For a fair selection everybody has to take the same exam: Please climb that tree”. The students he is talking to are a money penguin, elephant, fish, seal, and a dog. Based on these animals only the money will be able to pass the test. This is how the government see all the students, they believe all students are the same when they are actually…
“One of the popular reform efforts of the 1980s was the creating of so-called minimum competency tests or other exams that high school students were required to pass as a condition of graduating. Ohio’s legislature, for example, hoped to hold the state’s more accountable by creating an exit exam that all high school students in the state were required to pass. In practice, however, the exam’s standards were anything but rigorous. Although the exam was required of high school graduates, the tests were set at an eighth-grade level” (Skyes 149) This flaw led to the creation of the “No Child Left Behind” act set by congress in 2001. Aimed at disadvantaged students, NCLB introduced standardization like never before. Every year schools are assessed and compared through standardized tests and an AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) and receive funding if they meet the requirements of the act.…
The main character in Charlotte P.Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, narrates her own life and describes her struggle with depression which by the end of the story evolved into insanity. Narrator’s husband, John, treats her like a small child, forbids her to express herself, and keeps her bound to restricted room. Due to her husbands actions she becomes physically, emotionally and socially isolated, which ultimately made her insane.…
The tests themselves are not cause for concern. The amount of value the federal government place on the tests is the concern. The students know how pertinent the test is for their grade and this stresses students out. Stress is not beneficial to student lifelong learning. If we teach to the test, the students will likely forget the rapid mass of information pushed into them.…
The standardized test issues have always been one of the most important issues in the educational system of a country. Standardized test is a test for which norms on a reference group, ordinarily drawn from many schools or communities, are provided (Van Kollenburg, Susan E., 2002). In simpler terms, standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of students’ performance. A very large amount of students graduate every year from schools all over the world. Thus, standardized tests give educators a common model for assessing these students. Standardized tests are also known as high stakes tests. Although the names, formats and manners in which these tests are administered to students differ according to country, the benefits and costs that these tests bring are similar. In the United States of America particularly, it is compulsory for all students graduating from high school to sit for the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT).…
These tests do not force students to think on their own. They are not expanding their knowledge, rather they are memorizing information that they know will be on the test. Standardized tests need to force students to learn the…
People from all walks of life have taken standardized tests. According to many people, these tests help place students in the correct educational environments and test them on basic skills necessary for higher education but some view standardized tests as a more serious subject. Students, teachers, parents, government and school board officials, and many more groups of people can debate back and forth all they want about standardized tests but the major discussion in today 's era is not the fact that standardized tests either do or do not play a vital role in a students schooling but rather the argument that high stakes testing may be affecting students and education systems in a positive fashion.…
Since NCLB in 2002 saw a large rise in the use of standardized testing America’s PISA ranking actually fell from 18th in math to 31st, science and reading also fell similarly(Walker). Sadly America is raising a very unintelligent generation, who is so worried about learning how to take tests well that they forget to actually learn. We can’t really trust these large testing companies to gauge our education system’s effectiveness when they themselves have repeatedly had major issues with faulty scores on tests. Legislators from across the country should come together to not only save our country money, but to protect this country’s future, the next generation’s…
Standardized testing has become the focus of modern school reform since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind law in 2002 (Evans 1). The act was designed to hold all public schools to a high standard of education, measured by the results of students’ test scores on statewide standardized tests. Not all students are good test takers, and not all careers require the ability to take traditional tests in order to be successful on the job. A significant number of students nowadays would care much about standardized tests. This is because students feel like they must worry about a test which directly affects their grades and ability to learn. Standardized tests place a heavy weight on students that can lead to stress, take up instruction timing, and students won’t be able to learn anything from them.…
Introduction: According to Dr. Hoffman, it is the multiple-choice format that is to blame. “Multiple choice tests penalize the deep student, dampen creativity, foster intellectual dishonesty, and undermine the very foundations of education” he remarked in a 1977 interview. A standardized test is a test that uses uniform procedures for administration and scoring in order to assure that the results from different people are comparable. Standardized tests have been used since 1965 to do this. There have been many debates on the pros and cons of standardized tests for years. Testing in the schools has swelled and mutated and threatens to swallow our school systems whole. Standardized tests in the public school system have become biased and they are costly to school systems. In this presentation I will go over some of the cons of standardized testing. One is that the tests given to our students today are biased to our children that certain questions can only be answered by particular groups of students. The second con of standardized testing is that these tests have become costly to our schools and the test scores affect certain schools funding.…
believe it is wrong to allow just a single test to decide whether an entire…