In the book The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author shows a government that takes total control over its citizen. For instance‚ Jonas‚ the young protagonist‚ learns that he is unable to make choices due to the law of equality‚ or “. He cannot decide the clothes he can wear or what activities he can do. As Jonas says to the Giver‚ Jonas’s mentor‚ “If everything’s the same‚ then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” (97) This shows that the Elders have taken away
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Common Core was adopted by many states in hopes that schools would perform better and be able to compete with the rest of the world. With the new Common Core Standards in place some states are not doing as well as they hoped. In April of 2012 at a public school in Brooklyn‚ a teacher named Trisha Matthew assigned her students to write self-portrait poems. Most of her students compared themselves to LeBron James or a loud piano. One student named Chrispin decided to write about something more meaningful:
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The Lesson Plan of Failure Standardized tests have taken over the lesson plans of teachers‚ dictating the quality and content of education in the American public school system. The curricula is tailored to prepare students for subjects on the test instead of on a full spectrum education. The government tests focus primarily on reading‚ writing and arithmetic leaving out crucial developmental topics like humanities and social sciences. The results from these tests not only to judge the intelligence
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Groggy-eyed on a Saturday morning‚ a student enters a quiet classroom. Taking their seat‚ the nerves start to become reality‚ and it is time for a miracle to happen. Today is the day that high school students are required to take the ACT throughout the country at their high school. This test rates teachers‚ students‚ and school districts based upon the results of the test. They are used to determine the intelligence level of each individual‚ and they are used to mark progress taken away from the
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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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Everyone who has attended school has 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)
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METHODOLOGY Research Design The furtherance of the study employed descriptive and explanatory research methods. These research designs enabled the researcher to accomplish his objective in determining the significant effect of intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction to OCBI and OCBO. Participants The participants in this study were the full-time regular faculty members of the eight colleges of Holy Angel University. The said units have the following numbers of regular faculty members: College
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Equipment Calibration is defined as the act of adjusting and evaluating the precision and accuracy of measured equipment. It allows the user to get an accurate and precise reading of measurements to its actual true value. However‚ in order for the experiment to be effective is must consist of validity‚ reliability‚ and objectivity. Validity is defined as the ability of a test to measure what it claims to measure. Reliability is the consistency of test results and objectivity is defined as a test
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Correlation vs. Causation Situation Causation or correlation? Wealthy people are thin. Correlation Ice cream melts when heated Causation Students with fewer clothes perform worse on standardized tests. Correlation Money is the root of all evil. In other words‚ money causes evil. Correlation People with long hair do better on audio memory tests Correlation Wealthy people are thin. – If one of the variable changes we would not be able to say that the other variable will change
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Like previously mention‚ the two main individual intelligence tests are the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test and the Wechsler tests known as the Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children (WISC) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for adults. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SBIS-V) is used today to test assesses fluid reasoning‚ quantitative reasoning and working memory as well as the ability to compare verbal and nonverbal performance. While the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
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