The No Child Left Behind Act has seen the spread of standardized testing and used for the wrong purposes. Schools have been pushed schools to use the standardized tests so learning‚ teacher and school quality can be measured and also determine sanctions based on scores. Not only are sanctions given‚ but also decide whether the student should go through school. The scores of children dictate if they should go to the next grade‚ stay in the same grade‚ or graduate. School systems use the tests as a
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In standardized test it depends what subject of the test I’m taking is what determines if I will do good or bad. If it’s like an english section I usually get an okay score but I struggle a lot and sometimes I get bored and distracted. If it’s the math section I usually do really good because for some reason‚ math has always been easy to me and I hardly struggle in the math standardized test. I have really always been that way for some reason‚ and any other subjects I really haven’t took any standardized
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Every year high school juniors wake up go to a testing facility that’s often not their regular classroom or school‚ and take a standardize test. The point of these tests is to give an equal opportunity to all students to show colleges their academic potential. Sixteen year old Darius Smith‚ African American student sits down to take his standardize test. Little does he know he is at a ninety nine point disadvantage just because of his race. Darius is not alone as standardize tests are riddled with
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light that standardized test results are often inaccurate. As Michelle Obama once said‚ Mrs. Obama is living proof that standardized tests are not an accurate form of measurement for student’s intelligence and performance. Even though Mrs. Obama did not do well on standardized tests‚ she is one of the most intelligent and powerful women today. It takes a lot more than a high score on a multiple choice test to determine the level of one’s intelligence. A students performance on a standardized test can
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Why does the state give students standardized tests? Ask yourself this: Does standardized test really help students? Does it truly challenge the summary of a student’s knowledge? No. It is true that one of the main reasons for standardized tests is to see if students have learned their TEKS and basic curriculum; however‚ the tests should not weigh so harshly on a student’s grade in the decision of pass or fail. Some students are just bad test takers. Some students have extreme anxiety when taking
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face of the entire city might deform with lines of people looking dirty and dragging themselves throughout streets‚ posing a hurdle to traffic‚ especially in rush hours. Foreigners‚ upon their arrival‚ cannot help but wonder “What is on earth the government doing to allow people to adopt this lifestyle?” and feel strongly irritated when their journeys cannot enjoy fun-filled days with the periodical interference of those guys who keep soliciting for money‚ and another trouble even arises because of
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Standardized testing has had a growing emphasis in this country. “A typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade‚ a new Council of the Great City Schools study found. By contrast‚ most countries that outperform the United States on international exams test students three times during their school careers.” (Washinton post) School systems now are getting so caught up in these different tests‚ they are forgetting the real core of what they should
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Standardized testing is suppose to help students thrive and succeed. It is placed in American school systems to prepare the students for life or a higher education. One can infer that standardized testing shows accurately good measures growth of student performance and can target areas of weakness and development. In contrast‚ standardized testing cannot measure attributes‚ or student worth. It defines the students on how they test or their achievements in academics. A test cannot determine a student’s
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I. Introduction 1. Should standardized test be required in public schools or not? 2. The issue is from why standardize test be require in public schools. 3. Private schools do not require it or even home scholars‚ to see why a public school should. 4. Standardized tests should not be required because of how relevance on how they grade students on it. 5. I believe that each year that goes the scores gets worse and worse over time. II. Background 1. As time passes I would
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Higher Standards: Problems with Standardized Testing "Where is the standardized test that can measure passion for learning‚ respect for others‚ and human empathy?" These are the words of Tom McKenna‚ a disgruntled high school teacher from Portland‚ Oregon. Like many other educators and students across the nation‚ Tom is tired of the system. The educational system today is composed of a series of standardized tests. Standardized tests are bad for many reasons. They cause teachers to limit
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