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    Alternatives to Standardized Testing  Standardized testing has a detrimental and counterproductive effect on kids in the traditional education setting. It objectifies kids and ranks them according to an arbitrary scale that is not customized to fit individual students and their disparities in learning styles. There is significant evidence and numerous studies that show standardized testing’s negative effects on grade school level students. Other methods should be investigated and pursued instead

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    Is standardized testing the way to go? You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school‚ forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test‚ you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day‚ not getting enough sleep‚ etc

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    Standardized Testing Robert L. White Advanced Writing Bill Bohnert February 2‚ 2006 In years past thousands of grade school students have been drug throughout the school systems of the United States without a single thought to whether they acquired the knowledge necessary to be successful in the working world or college. Since the signing of No Child Left Behind Act by President George W. Bush‚ many believe standardized or "high stakes" testing places advantages and disadvantages

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    Thesis statement: Standardized tests in the public school system have become biased and they are becoming costly to the school systems. 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

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    the concept of standardized testing. Standardized testing has been around a long time and is used in many other ways besides in schools. Standardized testing can be used when getting a drivers license‚ or even to get a job. It first came about in 1917‚ when it was used as a mean of assessing militant recruits. During this time it was able to test young men quickly and enter them into the military based on their level of intelligence. Standardized testing was important in testing the objectives

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    English I CPE/period 9 15 January 2013 Standardized testing should not be required to graduate high school             Sitting in a classroom for forty-five minutes feels long and stressful. During the standardized tests students have to sit in a classroom for hours at a time‚ knowing that their future dreams of being a doctor‚ teacher‚ or lawyer could come to an end if they mess up one exam. Standardized tests should not be required for students to graduate high school. They cause students

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    Standardized testing is something you’re bound to come across in public schools as soon as first grade. I remember taking test after test as a public school student‚ and I can’t really say I ever got anything out of it. These tests are putting so much pressure on teachers and students a like. A bunch of old men sitting around a table who’ve never even stepped foot in my school can make a test and say that it evaluates what students have learned as a whole. The problem with standardized testing‚ its

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    Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned. Increasingly‚ standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students‚ such as grade promotion or high school graduation‚ and schools. More and more often‚ they also are intended to shape the curriculum and instruction. Students across America have had to repeat classes because of the way standardized tests are used

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    The morning sunlight shining partially through the window onto a student who is waiting to begin his standardized exam. The student glancing through the window‚ looking at man running down the street trying to make it on time to work. The man has lingering thoughts on his mind about a project deadline that he should have been more organized with. The man running around the corner past a older women talking on the phone‚ a conversation that the man could not interpret. This older woman who recently

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    Is standardized testing improving our students’ academic achievement level? Or is it causing several high schools around the world to have a lower graduation rate? I personally feel that there should be no standardized test that determines if students graduate and receive their diploma. Causing stress on our teachers‚ lowering graduation rates‚ and putting at risk students at a higher risk is three of several reasons why standardized testing should no longer be permitted in our schools. All teachers

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