Lainey Sullivan Evaluation Paper Standardized Testing Standardized tests are a common and popular way to evaluate the academic achievements of students‚ teachers and school districts. They are used in many areas such as the army‚ civil service‚ medicine and so on. Standardized tests are most widely used in the field of education to assess the academic performance of students. Two commonly known types of standardized tests in the United States are the SAT and the ACT. The SAT evaluates skills
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Problems with Standardized Testing Do standardized test scores accurately describe the achievements of a student? Regardless of what reports and newspapers suggest‚ scores on standardized tests do not reflect a student’s achievements or abilities. Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT are the focus of argument not only among teachers and educational reformers‚ but also among students. Opponents agree that the standardized tests are weighted too heavily‚ and that test anxiety obstructs learning
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English I CPE/period 9 15 January 2013 Standardized testing should not be required to graduate high school Sitting in a classroom for forty-five minutes feels long and stressful. During the standardized tests students have to sit in a classroom for hours at a time‚ knowing that their future dreams of being a doctor‚ teacher‚ or lawyer could come to an end if they mess up one exam. Standardized tests should not be required for students to graduate high school. They cause students
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Is standardized testing the way to go? You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school‚ forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test‚ you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day‚ not getting enough sleep‚ etc
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Standardized testing is something you’re bound to come across in public schools as soon as first grade. I remember taking test after test as a public school student‚ and I can’t really say I ever got anything out of it. These tests are putting so much pressure on teachers and students a like. A bunch of old men sitting around a table who’ve never even stepped foot in my school can make a test and say that it evaluates what students have learned as a whole. The problem with standardized testing‚ its
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Global Marketing Plan 1. Identify the company‚ division or product: Company Introduction * In-N-Out Burger is a regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations in the western United States but mainly California. * Founded in 1946 by Harry Snyder and his wife Esther‚ first establishing their location in Baldwin Park‚ California. * There after new locations have open including some in Nevada‚ Arizona‚ Utah and now Texas. * Operation hours: 10:30 am- 1:00 am (Sunday-Thursday)
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Resolve: A national standardized test is a good measurement of high school student ability and school quality. Introduction: Academic tests can’t provide valueable measurements of students’ and schools’ comprehensive abilities. Outline I. Temperory Skills vs. Life Skills A. Most of the skills are temperory skills‚ a lot of people don’t need these skills for lifelong. B. Some teachers hold the idea “ teach to the test”‚ just care about students’ grades rather than teaching them some learning
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Compare and contrast standardized‚ concentrated and differentiated Global Marketing. Critically evaluate each strategy with an example from a global company to illustrate the differences There is a tendency for international corporate-level strategies to be substituted for global marketing strategies; namely‚ multi-domestic strategy to concentrated marketing‚ global strategy to standardized marketing‚ and transnational strategy to differentiated marketing. However‚ the borderline lies as the former
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Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned. Increasingly‚ standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students‚ such as grade promotion or high school graduation‚ and schools. More and more often‚ they also are intended to shape the curriculum and instruction. Students across America have had to repeat classes because of the way standardized tests are used
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Global Marketing Management Planning and Organization Global Marketing Management “Companies must learn to operate as if the world was one large market.” - Theodore Levitt (1983) Global Marketing Management I. II. Global vs. International Marketing Standardization vs. Adaptation Controversy A. Benefits of Standardization 1) Cost Saving 2) Levitt’s Argument 3) Uniform Brand Image 4) Improved Coordination Global Marketing Management B. Advantages of Adaptation 1) Differing Use Conditions
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