Standardized Tests: Crushing Students’ Dreams Since 2001 Have you ever taken a standardized test? All students in the American public education system have or will take these tests. Standardized tests measure test taking abilities of students‚ not how smart they are and waste valuable class time. This can decrease the overall intelligence of the students because they are being prepared to take tests not to learn or better their education. Lastly‚ a lot of the data from tests can be skewed for many
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Standardized testing is what many schools use to test the abilities of students nation wide. This system of testing pronounces itself in a way to help evaluate the students‚ teachers‚ and the school itself. Throughout the many positative outcomes‚ there have been many negative ones as well. Although‚ many of the people supporting the standardized test need to understand that not everything that seems good is actually what it is. The elimination of the standardized student test is supported by impersonal
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student’s future level of success‚ the tests fail to assess the highschooler fairly. Standardized tests‚ by definition‚ are not‚ in fact‚ Standardized. To standardized a procedure is “to change (things) so that they are similar and consistent and agree with rules about what is proper and acceptable‚” (Merriam-Webster). The exams students take in schools are not consistent and do not agree with the what society judges to be acceptable. The nature of the test itself does not allow for consistency
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Candace Henson Mr. Gordon English 1101 March 30‚ 2012 Mandatory Drug Tests Millions of businesses require people to take drug tests before they are hired. I believe that this should keep happening. Jobs that don’t require drug tests have the risk of insurance problems‚ the health of their employees‚ how it affects their work‚ and how they treat customers and other employees. Drugs alter the way your brain processes information and makes you think differently than you normally would. They
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Although there are few benefits of standardized tests‚ it does offer important data. One benefit is how it measures students’ and teachers’ strengths and weaknesses. Standardized tests are given out to measure teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom and a student’s success. The results are then compared amongst others who took the same test. If a student got a higher or lower score than the “standard” score on the test‚ then that is considered his or her strength or weakness. A teacher can then
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fail the test because I dont like failing in test that really show what you know and what can you do. I dont consider myself a bad test taker because I get stuck in problems half way there and I sometimes stress a lot in those problems. Sometime I get it and move on but most of the time I dont and try to find an answer so I can at least put something at the paper. I sometime study all day before the test and review some of the lessons in math and then I start reading to prepare on the test. I dont
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How well do you think standardized test measure your abilities? There are plenty of questions of whether or not standardized test can measure your abilities for life‚ but one answer remains firm in my perspective: Standardized test cannot measure one’s achievement in the qualities such as the ability to think critically or someone’s human traits that are so important when it comes to real life skills. Therefore‚ I do not think that a standardized test can measure one’s ability. As there are more
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Theory Test The driving theory test is one of the two driving tests that you have to pass before you get your driver’s license and become a qualified driver. Furthermore‚ the driving theory test helps to improve the safety of newly qualified riders and drivers by making them think carefully about the right attitudes needed to drive safely on today’s busy roads. However‚ while you can find a number of websites that provide theory test practice questions for driving‚ passing the theory test is not
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There are a variety of ways that tests can be misused and have an effect on the individual being tested. One ethical issue that may arise is how the test scores are interpreted and used. Especially the interpretation of test scored when testing diverse populations (Anastasi‚ & Urbina‚ 1997). According to Anastasi and Urbina (1997)‚ scores can often be misinterpreted when testing diverse populations because of the lack of investigating further into why individuals from diverse populations obtained
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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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