Standardize no more Standardized testing is currently required for almost all colleges in the around the United States. It’s been this way as early as the mid 1800’s‚ but it has recently become a big controversy among colleges. Colleges should not require students to take standardized test in order to be admitted. Standardized test put so much added stress on teens. Teens have so much on their plates as it is with all the extra-curricular activities needed to make a noble college resume. Teen stress
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Students Should Not Take Standardized Tests Students should not take standardized tests because they are not a good predictor of whether students will prosper in life. These tests do not identify students as individuals‚ and they do not measure their personality (Ravitch). The character of a person is a great deal when determining how likely students will succeed because some people are optimistic and some are pessimistic (“Personality Tests”). Their personality traits can decide on their future
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Standardized testing is usually perceived as the optimum way to judge the effectiveness of the learning system; however‚ if the reason for learning is to evaluate test scores rather than achievement and ability‚ then the real purpose of learning is lost. The explosive rate of standardized testing has caused a narrowing in the core curriculum and stifling of creative thinking in all fields. There are better ways to evaluate performance and understanding. The most advanced ways are good teacher observation
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standardize test. The point of these tests is to give an equal opportunity to all students to show colleges their academic potential. Sixteen year old Darius Smith‚ African American student sits down to take his standardize test. Little does he know he is at a ninety nine point disadvantage just because of his race. Darius is not alone as standardize tests are riddled with inaccuracies that hinder academic growth and opportunities in our country. The assumption that standardized tests reveals a student’s
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don’t really do well in test because I always forget to study and I don’t really like taking test because sometimes I forget the problem and I get lost. I think I’m a bad test taker because I don’t really take the test seriously and just talk to other classmate. I always forget to study and I always get lost so I’m consider a bad test taker. I haven’t been like this since the 8th grade because I always passed my test back then‚ but now I don’t really get good score in the test and I always ending up
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Prompt: Most of the professors in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages strongly suggest that an English major should reach an acceptable score of a standardized English proficiency test (e.g.‚ TOEIC‚ IELTS) before graduation. Otherwise‚ he or she should not be qualified for graduating with a college diploma. Do you agree or disagree with such policy? Support your arguments with specific examples. • Write your essay in the box. |As time changes‚ the opportunities of studying at college
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Standardized Test Improving Education in America The use of standardized tests became very popular after the No Child Left behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001. The NCLB required yearly testing starting in the 3rd grade‚ in all 50 states. US students fell from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st in 2009‚ with a similar drop in science and we haven’t had any changes in reading. One argument is that standardized tests are a fair and measure the ability of students‚ they make sure teachers
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First‚ standardized tests cannot measure the true capacity and measure student performance. To get a good score on standardized tests‚ students just try to memorize all contents of what teachers told and taught them. By this process‚ students do not only try to understand deeply about the contents‚ but they also just memorize things whose notions that they do not know and comprehend well. This may cause students to forget the substances so easily. Moreover‚ in multiple-choice tests‚ students can
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Standardized testing has gotten a lot of arguments in the classroom. Students from kindergarten through 12th grade take a lot of test‚ but does this necessarily mean it is a positive effect on students? There are two sides to this‚ there are pros and of course there are cons to a standardized test. Everyone has their view on standardized testing‚ which one are you? Pros The first pro according to a University of Arkansas is that students don’t feel like testing is too stressful (Standardized Test-
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Pros and Cons of Standardized Education Although Alfie Kohn attacks the grading system specifically‚ he would agree with John Taylor Gatto’s claim that the standardization of schools is focused on the “mass-producing of unimaginative‚ conformist‚ mediocre children .” Both display a cynical tone about a system that is plagued by a “factory-oriented approach.” While validated by research‚ theorist and historians‚ their criticisms are not true for every student involved in the United Sates educational
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