Many students‚ teachers‚ and parents focus on stress that tests in academic life cause‚ while others strongly defend standardized tests because of their advantages. Apparently‚ there are a lot of counterarguments‚ that need to be considered‚ but in my view‚ that worth it‚ to have tests as obligation in school program. To begin with‚ everyone has benefit from tests‚ which evaluate effectively pupil’s knowledge in specific area. First of all‚ it facilitates work of teachers.Teachers can get clear
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world‚ there are hundreds of colleges that only look at standardized test scores for admission. College is an educational institution/establishment. It is a place where students go to get education after they have graduated. College opens doors for students that high school doesn’t. Despite these positive reasons to go to college‚ some colleges don’t accept students into their university due to their low test scores. Initially‚ standardized test scores do not predict a student’s success at college
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I believe that we should have a standardized test for High School students to graduate. It is a way of measuring basic skills of students. It puts all the knowledge of what we have learned over the past 12 years to the test. It’s put in a test to see how much you’ve truly learned and to prepare you for your adult life. Another reason we should have this standardized test is because it will better prepare the students for college. Students are given this final test and are released into the real world
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Optional assignment #3 Name of Professor 3 June‚ 2013 In his article “cheating and CHEATING‚” Joe Posnanski claims that baseball game is never innocent and it is always beautiful. When come to discussing about baseball game‚ baseball game was stuffed with cheating‚ racism‚ alcoholism and small-mindedness. Even though amphetamines and steroid become available to players at different period of baseball history‚ it actually
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Standardized Test Improving Education in America The use of standardized tests became very popular after the No Child Left behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001. The NCLB required yearly testing starting in the 3rd grade‚ in all 50 states. US students fell from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st in 2009‚ with a similar drop in science and we haven’t had any changes in reading. One argument is that standardized tests are a fair and measure the ability of students‚ they make sure teachers
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There have been a lot of controversy around the idea of standardized test scores‚ whether it actually measure the intelligence of students or do it standardized test is built to fail person. I remember when I was at my next college in a sociology class when my professor said that standardized test is built to fail a person especially minorities. I was shocked when I heard that in class that day. All I was thinking to myself‚ at that moment why build something to better one side of the spectrum and
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First‚ standardized tests cannot measure the true capacity and measure student performance. To get a good score on standardized tests‚ students just try to memorize all contents of what teachers told and taught them. By this process‚ students do not only try to understand deeply about the contents‚ but they also just memorize things whose notions that they do not know and comprehend well. This may cause students to forget the substances so easily. Moreover‚ in multiple-choice tests‚ students can
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As data gathering devices‚ tests are among a valuable instruments of instructive research. Testing tells what level of knowledge or skill has been acquired to most exploratory studies in education. The instruments have been intended to depict and measure test of parts of human progress. These tests survey assortment of human abilities‚ possibilities‚ and accomplishments. They have different degrees of legitimacy unwavering quality and appropriateness. In this way‚ a test is a way that measure subjects
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there a solution ? : Academic Dishonesty In this day and time academic dishonesty is no rarity‚ it mostly occurs in the school settings. When we are in school‚ we come into hard situations with homework assignments or test. As a result to that students look towards cheating. With cheating we are putting ourselves at risk for plagiarism. No matter the rules and regulation academic dishonesty is still occurring all over. They truly need to enforce the regulations on academic dishonesty‚ because if they
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Standardized testing is a type of test that has to be taken statewide and damages both teachers on their job and they’re paycheck and students on their life. The first reason why it damages students and teachers is because Standardized tests scores are being used in high stakes ways to evaluate and punish teachers ‚ but maybe teachers have taught their students well but‚ questions on test that are out of students mind level or are too hard to understand or to answer that question that may be
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