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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 is the most commonly used and well known method of testing used in the United States and many other countries around the world‚ but can harm educational quality and promote inequality. Standardized testing is used to determine student achievement‚ growth and progress. Standardized tests are tests that attempt to present unbiased material under the same‚ predetermined conditions and with consistent scoring and interpretation so that students have equal opportunities to give correct

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    Lainey Sullivan Evaluation Paper Standardized Testing Standardized tests are a common and popular way to evaluate the academic achievements of students‚ teachers and school districts. They are used in many areas such as the army‚ civil service‚ medicine and so on. Standardized tests are most widely used in the field of education to assess the academic performance of students. Two commonly known types of standardized tests in the United States are the SAT and the ACT. The SAT evaluates skills

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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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    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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    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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    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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    sorts of tests have been evolving ever since. One of the important questions that always comes up regarding these tools is what are the tests really measuring? Are they measuring a person’s intelligence? Their ability to perform well on standardized tests? Or just some arbitrary quantity of the person’s IQ? When examining the situations around which these tests are given and the content of the tests themselves‚ it becomes apparent that however useful the tests may be for standardizing

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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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