in education is 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
Premium High school Standardized test Psychometrics
Hararch English 102 Research Paper 15 April 2013 Standardized Testing: False Interpretation 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
Premium Standardized test Standardized tests Psychometrics
What’s So Wrong about Standardized Testing? Standardized testing in public schools is at an all time high. The state of Pennsylvania starts their testing on children as young as 10 or 11 years of age. Not to mention states like Georgia that begins testing kids while they are still in kindergarten. Many people can step up to defend standardized testing in schools‚ saying that it is in place to help build up our systems‚ and help to strengthen and progress the academic success of our young scholars
Premium Standardized test Psychometrics Standardized tests
Professional athletes paid too much? There are many opinions on this issue. The owners should pay the professional athletes more money to counter the fact that they can be injured and the time spent away from their family. The skill of the players is undoubtedly the best in the world. Job security with the athletes doesn’t exist. The injuries that the athletes can endure can ruin their career and also their life after the sport. To conclude professional athletes are not paid too much. The skill of the players
Premium Professional sports Football Amateur sports
Ronaldo‚ who is currently the highest paid footballer in the world‚ gets paid $82 million per year. There are some that would argue that he does not deserve that much money for being a athlete. Professional football players do not get paid too much because the teams are private businesses so they can pay their players what they want‚ the players put in tons of hard work‚ and they bring in revenue for the team. With football clubs being like a private business‚ they can choose to pay their “employees” whatever
Premium American football Cristiano Ronaldo La Liga
have too much freedom”. The following are the 9 reasons my teacher required us to brainstorm: 1. Parents don’t know where their children are anymore. 2. Not everywhere is a war zone‚ but not everywhere is safe. So‚ teenagers shouldn’t have as much freedom as they do to roam dangerous streets and hang around in parks or alleyways‚ especially at night. 3. Teenagers spend less time with their families as they are out so often. This can give teens an unbalanced life as they spend too much time
Free Adolescence
"Far too much attention is given to beauty products and treatments." Comment. “Beauty comes from within” is now a phrase laughed by many. In this modern society‚ looks are all that matters‚ beauty products and treatments are slowly interwoven into our lives‚ new treatments such as slimming programmes and feature-enhancement treatment‚ plastic surgery and much much more‚ appeal to the vain side of each person. Now‚ not only does women willingly splurge thousands of dollars on these everyday beauty
Premium Advertising Human physical appearance Beauty
living the high life and others are struggling to feed their families? Rich people are destroying our economy because of their seven to eight figure salaries. One of these groups is athletes. Professional athletes get paid far too much money and they shouldn’t be paid as much. Here is a good question: why are luxuries paid more than necessities? “It is a sad commentary on our societal values that these entertainers are taking in seven figure while teachers‚ police officers‚ and firefighters make
Premium English-language films Poverty Professional sports
A Bit of Change Here and There: An Improvement to the Traditional Standardized Testing There are a lot of students out there that may regret the amount of a certain type of education that has been given to them by their teachers. A few of those students face living with human disabilities like autism and dyslexia. They feel this way‚ because they say that they are stressed out when trying to remember or take in any information that was given to them in the classroom. In fact‚ the amount of
Premium Standardized test Psychometrics Standardized tests
Standardized tests have always determined the future of many students‚ parents‚ and everyone else. For some‚ it created a downfall in their long run and‚ on the other hand‚ it had no effect on others at all. The Standardized test has been made part of the American culture for more than 50 years and it is time to revise our standards (Fletcher). The NCLB Act‚ also known as the No Child Left Behind Act is one of the foundations that Standardized tests are built on. Rather than this Act working in favor
Premium Standardized test Education Psychometrics