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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Standardized Tests: Are they worth it? For years‚ children of all ages have been required to take standardized tests in order to assess their capabilities and theoretically prepare them for further education. These tests are often the main factor in acceptance into colleges and universities‚ used in grade advancement for younger ages‚ and an overall indicator of a person’s ability. However‚ because of the lack of variety in the subjects they evaluate‚ standardized tests are often under scrutiny
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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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talks about standardized testing in general and if whether or not teachers as well as students should be evaluated solely by their performances on these tests. It also contains some useful statistics about tests scores. I can use the information from this source in the introduction. This would be useful in the introduction because it is just an overview of different viewpoint on the topic. I can also give some background info about my topic in this way. Walberg‚ Herbert J. "Standardized Tests Effectively
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Standardized testing is the scourge that plagues the classroom and renders immobile the wheels of thought in a quagmire of ineffectual batteries of questions unintentionally fashioned to inaccurately assess a student ’s mastery of subject material. I intend to research the validity of standardized tests in school. The standardized tests can include the Stanford 9‚ PSAT‚ SAT‚ CRCT‚ etc. I chose this topic because I feel that educators and political leaders place an undue amount of importance on
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Ever since the standardized test was first introduced‚ it began to suck out the creativity from school and forced all teachers to teach the same material to every students nationwide. It has long been theorized that no two minds are the same and if you ask parent with more than one children they will confirm it. So why teach the same thing to every student when even siblings don’t have the same mindset and learning patterns? President Obama said himself “Teachers should not be forced to spend the
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sixty percent‚ barely over half of the content. Afterwards‚ that individual must attend the workforce‚ with at least sixty percent of their education retained (or higher. Most people score higher‚ but some barely reach this mark to pass). Standardized tests determine the future of someone‚ but yet they don’t seek to apply skills learned in an education to a real world scenario. After a student scores with a sixty percent they move on even deeper into the system‚ (with barely half of the total knowledge
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Argumentative Essay: Standardized Tests Standardized tests have caused plenty of disagreements for years. From parents‚ to even teachers. The parents are worried about all of the stress that the test causes their children‚ The teachers disagree with the tests for the fact that they are used to evaluate them inaccurately. Some students also move at a slower pace than others and the test has its unfair advantages. These tests make some students feel like a failure when they don’t pass. The whole
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Standardized Test I think I do almost good on standardized test‚ I don’t prepare at all for big test even if I know I should. I would consider myself not as a bad test taker because I know how to do the work but I always think I get the answers wrong. I think I am a good test taker that doesn’t study for any test if that makes sense I don’t know. I don’t know I can’t really pick if I am a good or bad test taker because I honestly don’t know. When I know I have a test I don’t study a lot I just
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students think the number of tests they have is ‘about right.’” Some people support standardized test and some don’t. I believe in standardized test because they cost a low amount of money‚ most parents‚ teachers‚ and administrators approve these tests also. Test don’t cost a lot of money. Since they don’t cost a lot of money the school can use the money for other things like better food‚ more equipment for the playground and balls so you would be able to play basketball. The test provide a lot of useful
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