performance on a standardized test‚ I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.” If our first lady of the United States of America can be stating that she would have not been successful if she took standardized testing‚ then why do we base all of our students success on their test scores? Diane Ravitch‚ one of the major contributors to the No Child Left Behind Act‚ was once a supporter of standardized testing and believed it could improve public schools. After seeing standardized testing put into place
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The Benefits of Optional Standardized Testing Students with higher grades and modest test scores did better in college than students with lower grades and higher test scores (Sheffer). This proves that grades are more accurate predictors of a student’s academic success. There are many benefits of making standardized tests optional or not requiring them at all. Standardized tests are a biased way of measuring academic talent. Although the College Board believes the SAT is a good predictor of academic
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Standardized tests in school Standardized tests are very common in our schools today. Many school require that we take tests in some form and there is a big debate on whether these tests are actually helping students. There are many people that say that standardized testing is good for our schools and students‚ while others believe that standardized tests shouldn’t be used and are not necessary in our schools. My stand on the issue‚ is that standardized tests should not be used in school. Standardized
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Standardized Testing Every year thousands upon thousands of children‚ ages seven and upwards sit down to take their scheduled standardized tests. This generation has been classified as the most tested in history. "Its progress through childhood and adolescence" has been "punctuated by targets‚ key stages‚ attainment levels‚ and qualifications" ("Stalin in School" 8). Each year the government devises a new standard and then finds a way to test how each student measures up to this standard. They
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Standardized testing is losing its efficiency‚ and could be hurting the education and learning of all our students‚ from young to old. Standardized tests are state administered annual tests that all students must complete. Each state may have a different testing program‚ and each one is very different‚ but they all have the same basic gist. They were made to measure student’s knowledge‚ and measure the school’s achievement‚ but are they worth the hassle and time they use? The opinion of the usefulness
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“John took many standardized tests in high school that helped him succeed in his science career.” Basic skills tests might be dull and may feel like a waste of time‚ but it can help in many ways. Basic skills test‚ also known as “standardized tests‚" are tests students must pass in order to graduate. According to scholar Richard P. Phelps‚ “93% of studies of student testing‚ including the use of large-scale and high- stakes standardized tests‚ has found a ‘positive effect’ on student achievement”(Phelps)
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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 educational level it once was. School should be something people look forward to not something they dread. We should eliminate standardized testing in the US because not everyone learns
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others who pass all the tests? Students are forced to memorize information quickly for standardized tests rather than take the time to fully understand concepts. What we call learning is slowly diminishing as more standardized tests make their way into the schools. Students are pressured to cram the night before big tests and once they receive their grade‚ they forget what they memorized soon after. Standardized tests should be abolished because there are many other ways in the classroom to evaluate
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The SAT and ACT‚ both standardized test scores used as an indicator of students’ academic abilities‚ are taken each year by thousands of students planning to enroll in some category of post-secondary education. These are thought to be accurate indicators of a student’s academic ability‚ but this is not always true. I feel that more often than not‚ these tests are rough indicators of a student’s ability. They test what the student SHOULD know‚ rather than what courses‚ and the depth of said courses
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single hour on a single day? SATs‚ ACTs‚ ISTEP‚ NAPLAN‚ and so much more varieties of standardized tests are answering affirmatively to what the questions has asked. These days schools are using this method to measure one’s brilliance. Although standardized tests show the fundamental‚ basic knowledge of students‚ they are not necessary because they do not go indepth into a student’s knowledge and using those scores to decide their future is not reasonable. Standardized tests are put on high pedestals
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