Student by a Test Score Introduction Students sit in humid‚ cramped classrooms‚ wrack their brains for answers‚ and complete sections of a test in the allotted amount of time for one thing that will define them: a number score. In 2001‚ Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that requires schools to administer standardized tests to students in order to determine if the school is meeting state education standards (Rettner‚ 2011). However‚ these standardized tests do not accurately
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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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Davis 1 Ericka Davis Nishi Shah-Williams English 100 4 December 2013 Standardized Testing: Helpful or Harmful for American Youth I would like to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of standardized testing for primary school children. I support standardized tests that are created based on each school or districts standards. Not all students learn at the same rate or in the same manner. I do feel that testing is one of the easiest methods of tracking how teachers are doing in the classrooms
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Standardized tests are used to measure the performance of students in comparison to others in the same class/level as them‚ an example being a standardized test used to measure the performance of all students in AP English. They have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s‚ and their use as greatly increased after George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act was put in place‚ mandating annual testing in all 50 states (“Standardized Tests”). In the United States‚ standardized testing is
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determines the rest of your future. These difficult standardized tests cause an unnecessary amount of stress for high school students‚ as if they aren’t already stressed enough. Students are expected to take multiple AP classes‚ participate in multiple extracurricular activities‚ and find time to study for these standardized tests. The ACT and SAT are commodified on the American market through tutoring and the cost of taking multiple tests. Standardized testing for college acceptance is unfair because
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frequently with standardized tests for better or for worse. America values standardized testing because it causes schools to feel pressured to increase the level of education. Americans test from an early age‚ contrary to other countries. They currently test students abundantly‚ and often the results are used to measure their academic status. America is very comfortable with its methods of standardized testing despite much criticism (Kohn‚ 2000). Despite the benefits of standardized tests‚ for many reasons
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taken at least one standardized test in their life. A standardized test is any examination that’s given and scored in a standard manner. There are two major types of standardized tests. Aptitude tests‚ such as the SAT and ACT‚ and achievement tests‚ which school board members rely on when they evaluate the effectiveness of a school (Popham). A typical student takes about 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade (Layton). Although‚ these tests can be a waste of
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in school doing standardized tests?Students do spend most of their time on standardized tests.In fact they spend 23.3 hours.7th graders don’t have time to get caught up on other class work.The students also have to learn from these tests ‚ so learning takes up time to.The government needs to modify standardized tests.In this essay I will discuss the needs to modify standardized tests.The needs are students spend too much time on the tests ‚ the tests are stressful ‚ and the tests are low quality
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A problem within the educational system would be standardized testing. Standardized testing has been part of the US educational system since the mid 1800’s. Educating children should and is a top priority in America. That being said standardized test should not measure educational quality because of the many complications that come with it. Many people are intelligent test are not reliable or valid. I agree that standardized test helps to see where the students may be in certain areas which can then
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Why We Need Alternatives to Standardized Testing When was the last time the United States placed first in global mathematical performance? In the latest score reports‚ the U.S. didn’t even place in the top 30 countries. Over the last few decades‚ students in the United States’ public education system have been scoring progressively less in areas such as mathematics and science. As one could imagine‚ this is a very alarming trend that could be detrimental to the advancement of our country if
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