The Nefarious Standardized Testing Michelle Obama once said‚ “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test‚ I would not be here. I guarantee you that.” Standardized testing began a long time ago in China. It was a basic form to determine the eligibility for positions in the government of the ruling class. A standardized test is an analysis that is overseen and scored in a scheduled manner. In 2001 President George W. Bush passed the ‘No Child Left Behind’ education
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Imagine our little brothers‚ sisters‚ or even our children having hard times learning at school. Now imagine them not being able to proceed to the next level of their education because they scored low on one of their tests. Standardized testing has been around for centuries; since the 1800’s to be exact‚ and every year since then the average success rate in the US for students K-12 has decreased. It doesn’t take doing research on success rates to know that the world we live in today is not at the
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Argument against Standardized Tests Standardized testing is one of the most controversial and highly debated topics in the United States today. These tests are commonly used to measure the students’ academic achievements and act as yardstick for teachers’ effectiveness in academic delivery. A typical student sits for at least “112 compulsory standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade” (Layton). Proponents of standardized testing believe that the practice provides accurate
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One hundred and thirteen‚ that’s the number of standardized tests the average student takes from prekindergarten to twelfth grade according to preliminary research conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools (Helfing para.9). If that seems a little extreme to you‚ you are not alone. Standardized testing has become an increasingly common way to measure anything from student knowledge to the effectiveness of the school‚ especially after the initiation of policies such as No Child Left Behind
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V. Discussion 1. The Creation Process of SIAPRSCCTPN We created sub-concept and a questionnaire comprising 55 items by reference to previous studies such as practical reports of nursing teachers who were in charge of Pediatric Nursing Practicum‚ especially the qualitative study conducted by Shiba and Yamaguchi (2012). We created two sub-concepts‚ “judgments on the necessity of intervention” and “educational intervention” (Figure 1) from nursing teachers’ judgments and behaviors for supporting
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Education. On one hand‚ education is a skill set which has to be gained or adquired‚ while IQ is believed to be an innate quality. IQ scores have been associated with such factors as parental social status and parental IQ (Rowe‚ Jacobson‚ Van den Oord‚ 1999). Education is a factor that does value addition to each person’s quality‚ the way he behaves especially with other people and his temperament. By the other side‚ IQ assesses how is the one’s ability to adapt to everchanging conditions‚ understanding
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Clifton Strengths Finder Sarah Delannoy Immaculata University In many cases‚ people find it difficult to label or categorize their natural talent. Because one is unaware of their natural talents‚ he or she experiences. During Gallup’s research on identifying talents‚ they discovered Throughout the course of Clifton’s work on studying talents‚ they discovered that the majority of people do not have careers that purse their natural talents (Rath‚ 2007). Out of 10 million people they surveyed
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Intellectual Power: How it is Measured‚ and its Effect on Learning Intellectual Power: How it is Measured‚ and its Effect on Learning Intellectual power‚ brainpower and mental capacity can all be defined as intelligence. According to The Developing Child‚ intelligence is a set of abilities defined in various ways by different psychologists but generally agreed to include the ability to reason abstractly‚ the ability to profit from experience‚ and the ability to adapt to varying environmental
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Chapter one summary The use of statistics is research is noted in this chapter. It reveals that statistical procedure could be segregated into two section and they are descriptive and inferential. In analyzing both descriptive statistics does exactly what it says‚ it describes the set of data. The problem is presented and descriptive statistical basically describes what the data has to say about the same issue. However inferential statistics main goal is making predictions or inferences about
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Laurel Sira Formal Sentence Outline COMS 1030 Title of Speech: Standardized testing General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: School and universities will no longer use standardized testing. Proposition: All schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success. Introduction I. Attention Getter Albert Einstein‚ Charles Dickens‚ John Rockefeller‚ and Bill Gates…what do all these people have in common? They were “bad
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