Do you love school? Hate it? Enjoy the day? Or do you really just go because you have to? Well‚ whatever your opinion is I barely make it through the year! With the loads of standardized tests‚ horrible classes‚ and a boring school‚ I think you’ll see my point. First I’ll tell you about the tests. We have a lot of tests‚ standardized tests. In fact I took one the day I started writing this paper! It was a MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) tests‚ they are my least favorite type of tests. We take
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The clock ticks away‚ eating every little second that they need to spare. Tapping is coming from the front row and an ear busting scraping of erasers on paper comes from the back. Looking around‚ one may see faces of various emotions‚ those laid back or relaxed‚ those who are more concentrated on their own work‚ too much so that they don’t notice the person cheating off of them‚ and those who are looking at every question and realising that their future is coming slowly to an end solely because of
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In her op-ed piece‚ It Doesn’t Test For Success‚ (Creighton)‚ Joanne V Creighton‚ PHD asserts that standardized test scores such as the SAT’s are no longer useful in predicting the potential successes of today’s students. Dr. Creighton‚ who at the time was President of Mount Holyoke College‚ cited the errors in scoring on the SAT for approximately 4‚000 students. She further stated that while the test may have made sense when first developed‚ it no longer presents an accurate portrait of the potential
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Throughout high school you are given many different tests that determine how well you do in certain subjects. High school gives you many challenges to prove that you are ready to graduate and receive a high school diploma. That is why I feel that giving a standardize test is an unfair way to determine a student’s graduation. Many students can get test anxiety and score low on a subject that they normally do every day. Graduated shouldn’t be set on one certain test because there are many aspects
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If you ask lawmakers‚ taxpayers‚ teachers‚ parents‚ and students to critique our current education system‚ you will likely hear one complaint loud and clear. Schools are being forced to spend far too much time‚ money‚ and effort on standardized testing. Standardized Achievement testing should not be the sole method used to evaluate educational quality in schools because it has proven to be an unreliable measure of student performance‚ is excessively stressful for teachers and students alike‚ and
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Standardized Testing Doesn’t Measure Educational Quality Educators put relentless pressure on students to show that they themselves are effective. A student’s success is based upon their performances on standardized testing. A high score on a test shows the effectiveness of that particular schools staff success. Education is being measure by the wrong standard; therefore these evaluations are apt to be inaccurate. A standardized test is an examination that predicts how well a student is likely to
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Testing‚ Testing‚ And More Testing In all the years before students have went through school learning at all different levels and they would constantly advance without knowing if they had learned what needed to be learned or not. They did this until they got into jr. high/ high school and had end of semester exams and would fail which meant they were held back or didn’t graduate at all that year. We have to ask ourselves if it was really failing or was it the system failing them all the years
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Introduction to Psychological Testing Psy 475 October 22‚ 2012 Introduction to Psychological Testing The history of personality and intelligence testing‚ dates to the beginning World War II. In psychology‚ clinicians use psychological tests as a tool to help aid in identifying important information in regard to the behaviors of an individual or a group. There is a major difference between regular testing and testing used for psychological purposes. There are various tests
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Does Prepping for High-Stakes Test Interfere with Teaching? Meecha Easton AED 200 January 27‚ 2013 Stacey Ryerson Does Prepping for High-Stakes Test Interfere with Teaching? Introduction The purpose of any teacher is to ensure the best education her students could get. Student learning should based on cognitive thinking skills and learning‚ not just declarative knowledge and basic skills. In the United States‚ however‚ high-stakes testing has
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Validity A really important aspect that has emerged in our project is validity which must be put into consideration when developing and evaluating a language test‚ since it will allow us to evaluate the utility and appropriateness of the test for our particular purpose and context. Therefore‚ the validity of a test can only be established through a process of validation and in order to carry it out‚ a validation study has to be undertaken‚ on the basis of arriving at a conclusion as to whether
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