Prompt: Most of the professors in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages strongly suggest that an English major should reach an acceptable score of a standardized English proficiency test (e.g.‚ TOEIC‚ IELTS) before graduation. Otherwise‚ he or she should not be qualified for graduating with a college diploma. Do you agree or disagree with such policy? Support your arguments with specific examples. • Write your essay in the box. |As time changes‚ the opportunities of studying at college
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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 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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The Usefulness of Standardized Tests When one is employed at a school‚ and starts noticing loads of confidential boxes being delivered‚ “Smarties” candies and “Smart Pencils” being distributed to students‚ and last but not least; witnessing that the stress of the school is rising…You know it’s testing time. This all happens at the beginning‚ middle‚ and end of the school year. Many tests take 1 to 2 days when others‚ have a duration of 2-3 weeks. As an employee of an elementary school‚
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On standardized tests I do kinda well on them. Each one are different and some I do ok in them and some i do bad on them and sometimes I do so so. I consider myself as a bad test taker because everytime when I get a test I would always think that I would do bad on everything. And also that I would always think that I wont understand it but i do and that only some of it. I have always been this way and it is a big challenge in me and I just have to deal with it and move on. When there is a standard
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Effects of Standardized Tests on Education Lawrence Jackson Armstrong Atlantic State University Standardized tests have been debated and argued for as many years as they have existed. It is worthwhile to look at some of the arguments for both sides and find out if there can be some middle ground. Two important factors of standardized tests are the way the tests are administered and how the results are handled. These two issues may be more important than the tests themselves
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Standardized Tests and Their Effect on the Community Carol Childs Prof. Moore / Saint Leo University SSC101 14 October 2012 There are many types of standardized tests used within schools to determine levels of intelligence and knowledge of subject matter. Teachers and the school board use these test results to determine areas that need improvement for the student and what subject areas they excel in. For students‚ many of them do not like taking tests especially when they hold a very high
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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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Analytic Narrative of Project KIPP Adelante is a charter school that serves primarily underrepresented and underserved students of Hispanic and African American ethnicity in downtown San Diego. According to the California Department of Education (CDE) School Accountability Report Card (SARC) for the year 2012‚ KIPP had a total of 363 students enrolled in grades 5 through 8; this is the most recent data available. Student demographics are as follows; 315 Hispanic‚ 28 African American‚ and the remaining
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