Standardized Tests: Helpful or Hurtful? The major tests that have quickly taken over high school juniors’ and seniors’ lives: The ACT and SAT. Countless hours of studying spent all to obtain a score that is going to determine what colleges you get accepted to and if you are even going to qualify for scholarships. Standardized tests in today’s society have become a very significant factor that most colleges look at for admissions‚ even though it is not a true assessment of student’s knowledge. The
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Math in My Life This year in Algebra 2 class I have learn some very interesting and important topics. Throughout this past school year I have grown and learned how to use these newly learned skills and my understanding of algebra is now complete. In math class this year‚ I believe I did fairly well and received almost got all A’s. I think I passed this class is because math in general comes easy to me. I only studied in the beginning of the year‚ as the latter part of the year came much easier.
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EQUIVALENT ASSIGNMENT: SECOND SEMESTER SURNAME $ INITIALS : RASIWELA L.A STUDENT NUMBER : 11550615 MODULE : CURRICULUM THEORY AND PRACTISE MODULE CODE : CTP 4621 LECTURER : Mr. T.S. MASHAU DUE DATE : 17 OCTOBER 2011 Question 1 1.1 What are components or elements in the curriculum? a) Aim: one sentences (more or less) description of overall purpose of curriculum‚ including audience and the topic. b) Rationale: paragraph describing why aim is worth achieving. This section
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The Lesson Plan of Failure Standardized tests have taken over the lesson plans of teachers‚ dictating the quality and content of education in the American public school system. The curricula is tailored to prepare students for subjects on the test instead of on a full spectrum education. The government tests focus primarily on reading‚ writing and arithmetic leaving out crucial developmental topics like humanities and social sciences. The results from these tests not only to judge the intelligence
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Ever since it was implemented‚ the Common Core curriculum has been a very controversial topic among students‚ teachers and parents nationwide. Opposers believe it is a method of government control over the nation’s education system. Supporters think it will enhance education by giving everyone the same standards to meet or overcome. During my research I discovered what the government intended with Common Core and how it actually worked. The purpose of the Common Core is to better develop a student’s
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But whoever created these tests surely isn’t a teenager who loves their sleep. But that’s beside the point. In today’s society‚ they have become too important of a factor in the college admission process. They have the potential to be the only thing that prevents one from getting into a school of their dreams. Therefore‚ standardized tests‚ including the ACT and SAT‚ shouldn’t be as important in the college admission process as they currently are. Standardized tests don’t allow equal opportunity
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A standardized test is defined as any examination that’s administered in a predetermined standard manner. (Popham) Standardized tests have defined students for years‚ determining what colleges and scholarships they’re eligible for. Although standardized tests make it easy to compare school performance‚ they are just one of many measures that should be used to evaluate student’s ability and readiness for college. Standardized tests originated in Imperial China to determine one’s eligibility for
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What Is Curriculum? by Jason C. Heard CIMA 0712 21975 Curriculum & Instruction Management Nova Southeastern University September 1‚ 2012 Defining curriculum can be a daunting task. John Portelli notes‚ “Those who look for the definition of curriculum are like a sincere but misguided centaur hunter‚ who even with a fully provisioned safari and a gun kept always at the ready‚ nonetheless will never require the
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Standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions‚ or a selection of questions from common bank of questions‚ in the same way‚ and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner‚ which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students (The Glossary of Education Reform‚ 2014). Standardized testing has a previous history. According to National Education Association (NEA) standardized testing was actually
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problem of why standardized achievement tests should not be used to measure students’ achievement in denver public schools. When‚ by whom and for what reason were standardized achievement tests created? How has the purpose of these tests changed since their beginning? I found a lot of information regarding this issue in different scholars sources. In my essay‚ I will use some of them in order to prove my argument that denver public education authorities need to eliminate standardized achievement testing
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