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    Resolve: A national standardized test is a good measurement of high school student ability and school quality. Introduction: Academic tests can’t provide valueable measurements of students’ and schools’ comprehensive abilities. Outline I. Temperory Skills vs. Life Skills A. Most of the skills are temperory skills‚ a lot of people don’t need these skills for lifelong. B. Some teachers hold the idea “ teach to the test”‚ just care about students’ grades rather than teaching them some learning

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    Standardized Tests: Are they worth it? For years‚ children of all ages have been required to take standardized tests in order to assess their capabilities and theoretically prepare them for further education. These tests are often the main factor in acceptance into colleges and universities‚ used in grade advancement for younger ages‚ and an overall indicator of a person’s ability. However‚ because of the lack of variety in the subjects they evaluate‚ standardized tests are often under scrutiny

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    countries adopt a standardized test to evaluate education achievement. It is also applied to value what is taught in the national standard in order to measure goals and how students and schools are reaching educational country system. This test can be several forms of evaluation such as multiple choice‚ true or false‚ or open-end questions. If students pass the test they will receive their degree. Although some people argue that standardized test improves the education‚ standardized test is unreliable

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    Problems with Standardized Testing Do standardized test scores accurately describe the achievements of a student? Regardless of what reports and newspapers suggest‚ scores on standardized tests do not reflect a student’s achievements or abilities. Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT are the focus of argument not only among teachers and educational reformers‚ but also among students. Opponents agree that the standardized tests are weighted too heavily‚ and that test anxiety obstructs learning

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    talks about standardized testing in general and if whether or not teachers as well as students should be evaluated solely by their performances on these tests. It also contains some useful statistics about tests scores. I can use the information from this source in the introduction. This would be useful in the introduction because it is just an overview of different viewpoint on the topic. I can also give some background info about my topic in this way. Walberg‚ Herbert J. "Standardized Tests Effectively

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    administration‚ and scoring of the test the next step is to perform an interpretation of the test. While interpreting the test the interpreter may find that‚ there are a few test bias that may have caused the scores to be high or low within a certain group causing the test to be unfair. Test bias and test fairness are two topics that individuals will continue to debate for years to come. Salkind (2013) described Test fairness as a very sensitive of use of examinations‚ quizzes‚ tests‚ etc. and social values

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    are being rewarded with cash for good grades or test scores on Advanced Placement and SAT exams. Though money is a good incentive for kids to try harder in school‚ it has more negative effects than positive. Based on the research by Richard Fryer‚ an economist at Harvard‚ has proven that in order for rewards to work they must be immediate and consistent. Compelled on solving if rewarding kids for grades could make a difference in standardized test scores‚ he created four reward schemes in four different

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    Standardized tests are also used as an assessment to measure the progress that a student has made in one academic year. Of course‚ one test would not be sufficient for assessing the student’s academic capability but‚ the test results would be a fairly accurate indicator (Thompson). Educators can take advantage of standardized tests by assessing where the student falls in their grade level on a national scale. If the student is falling behind academically compared to his peers‚ his educators will

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    Standardized testing is the scourge that plagues the classroom and renders immobile the wheels of thought in a quagmire of ineffectual batteries of questions unintentionally fashioned to inaccurately assess a student ’s mastery of subject material. I intend to research the validity of standardized tests in school. The standardized tests can include the Stanford 9‚ PSAT‚ SAT‚ CRCT‚ etc. I chose this topic because I feel that educators and political leaders place an undue amount of importance on

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    2014 End to Standardized Testing Standardized testing was originally created to measure students’ performance and progress. In recent years‚ the public school system has relied heavily on the information this test provides‚ in doing so creating controversy. The debate over standardized testing has raised an inquiry question: What are the effects of standardized testing on the United States public education system? Students are taught only to pass testsStandardized tests are not a true indicator

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